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So.... what makes this server different? :) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by excelsias@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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Title says it all!? I'm a reddit refuge and picked this instance because it's A) Canadian (I'm in MN, so consider myself an honorary Canadian), and B) The clean energy thing.

Applied to Beehaw but never heard back. Dittos on Lemmy.ML!

So hoping this is going to be a great "home" away from Reddit for the foreseeable future.

Cheers, and well done on the instance, admins!

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[–] Difficult_Bit_1339@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Instances can de-federate each other so you can't see communities. Beehaw just de-federated us due to the large influx of users containing some people trolling their communities. The moderation tools are not great right now and so rather than dealing with the influx of trolls they de-federated this instance.

So you can't see Beehaw communities and their users cannot see your posts if you post on another instance's community.

This lets instances decide who they want to associate with and is a good thing for the long-term health of social media. You don't want to be a part of instances that associate with terrorist instances or other shady things, de-federation is the tool to keep that from happening.

In general, any instance is as good as any other but as time goes on there may be a few different 'islands' of instances that are functionally separate from each other and you'll either choose one or use multiple accounts to swap between them.

[–] Trekman10@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I subscribed to some Beehaw communities from this account, so should I make a Beehaw account or just hold out hope that they re-federate us?

[–] Difficult_Bit_1339@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

They released an update yesterday that they reached out to speak with the sh.itjust.works admin team and they're confident that they will be able to re-federate with us going forward once they're able to get some more moderation tools to handle the larger volume.

They didn't provide a timeline however. It's up to you if you want to wait for re-federation or make another account on Beehaw.

Here's the post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/147756