This was about 35 years ago. It's an illusion that any of this went away
Beehaw.org defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
hey folks, we’ll be quick and to the point with this one: ##### we have made the decision to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. we recognize this is hugely inconvenient for a wide variety of reasons, but we think this is a decision we need to take immediately. the remainder of the post...
My personal tldr is that lemmy.world & sh.itjust.works have open registration and beehaw admins are have had enough dealing with a ton of troll accounts from these 2 instances. Is this a problem for Midwest.social? I'm subscribed to a couple of (non toxic I hope) communities.
And someone from McKinsey & Co. is currently making money from this as a consultant