The post can be found here.

I find this news disconcerting coming from such a large instance so early on. Many of the criticisms of Lemmy I’ve been fighting against on Reddit have had to do with defederation and the possibility of getting cut off from your favorite communities on your main account. I handwaved that away as being extremely unlikely save for the exception of NSFW or extreme political content. But this news has taken me quite by surprise. Perhaps I should have seen it coming given the community Beehaw is trying to foster.

This really makes me wonder what will happen to instances that make this decision. Will their communities diminish in favor of the more accessible ones? Will this decision hurt Beehaw in the long run? What does this mean for the Fediverse in the near future when fighting against its detractors has been such an uphill battle?

Thoughts?

  • CrimeDad@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Does anyone know if the admins at Beehaw tried discussing the problem with their counterparts at the other instances? (I’d search the comments to that post for an answer, but I don’t think there’s a good way to do that yet.)

    One more reason to start a personal instance I suppose.

    Update: I received this answer from the Beehaw admin.

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      Generally they would and it seems those users have been banned already from their home instance also.

      There was a couple of incidents that I think prompted this, users with bigoted names from one of the open-signup servers putting up stupid troll posts on Beehaw’s Feminism and LGBTQ+ pages. Banning said user would probably just cause them to create a new account and continue trolling so they probably wanted to curb that problem from the source rather than having to remove and ban reactively every time, especially bc they are a small team.