There are a lot of new Instances are less than a week old. I think Moderators need to tend to their own forums and not have to deal with crossposts from other instances until the moderating tools are more mature. If they need to defederate temporarily, I've got no problem with it.

Now, if Beehaw wants to create a "walled garden" just because their mods are power-hungry jerks, remember that there are nearly 900 Instances on lemmy (according to lemmy explorer). If mods ruin a community for fans, the fans can simply unsubscribe, move to the second (or third) most popular Instance and re-subscribe / re-create the forum there and the mods of the first Instance can't do anything about it (because they voluntarily defederated). The distributed nature of lemmy means that the fans decide what forums are popular. It will be easy to see by sheer number of subscribers, which lemmy/Memes is the "real" one and which one is being run by the jerks.

This also means that corporations can't screw up an entire social network (like what's happening to Reddit right now). Reddit is basically a social network platform with tens of thousands of communities and ONE Instance. This makes it easy for a money-grubbing corporation to ruin things for everybody. However, if a company tries to ruin the most popular Instance on lemmy, everyone will just migrate to the second (or third) most popular Instance and the first one will wither and die.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm increasingly a used by the number of people that think beehaw defederated from more than, like, 3 lemmmy instances.

They didn't create a walled garden. They just told a couple of sites they, in particular, were causing problems.

[–] whitehatbofh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actually, Beehaw has blocked a bunch more than 3 instances. https://beehaw.org/instances

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I just looked at the list. The domain names alone paint a picture of far right/red pill/sketchy pedo sites... Nothing too surprising. Hey, if you're into that stuff, you do you, but that block list is far, far, far from controversial

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

And almost all of those are not Lemmy instances. That's a Mastodon block list, and is overwhelmingly made up of Pleroma and Mastodon sites well known for shitty brhaviour.

Or did you not actually investigate the links?

[–] Bjoern_Tantau@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Beehaw: We'll start our own Reddit. Without blackjack and hookers!

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

LOL 😂. With snowflake users and and... we'll call it a forum.

[–] V699@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why did they defederate?

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trolls and off-site users not obeying community rules.

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were just making up excises to defederate if you ask me... cuz no one seems to mind most of the users either on this instance or another, but beehaw does 😒.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't need an excuse, though. That's the benefit of being an independent website. They can just decide for themselves, at any point, and for any reason.

But they gave a reason. So, maybe you should consider that they're seeing something different from you.

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That beats the whole point of having a fediverse, what good is it if everyone just defederates from everyone else. Basically, we're back to the forum thing once again.

I call BS. I think it was planned all along. Wait till a bunch of users migrate from reddit to beehaw, defederate and run our instance our way, i.e. we run a forum that has ActivityPub, that's it.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Federation is, always has been, and always will be an option. And an option that works ok when there's a small number of people on other sites doesn't always work well for people when there's a large number.

Plus, it's not like they defederated from everyone. They just had issues with moderation on your instance and a few others. Plenty of people off-site still have access to beehaw communities, because we haven't been acting like little stains.

You're going to be in for a world of psychic pain once there are 2 thousand smaller lemmy instances and they don't all universally federate.

And they won't. Because they don't have to. And you can't make them.

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, come on, no one else has a problem with users on sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world, but beehaw does... just look at the moderation logs, there is nothing scary there, like a bunch of users from those 2 instances getting banned in bulk or something like that.

I still call BS regarding the reason. The wanna defederate, fine (even though it's not IMO, but for the sake of argument, let's say I'm OK with defederation in general). But don't think for 1 second that we're gonna believe that excuse you served us. It's obvious it's a lie. And that's fine too, but... really? The same things that happened on reddit happening here as well, I mean... that was not the reason we moved.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok. You don't believe them.

Good for you.

Why should anyone else care what you believe or not?

And why would they bother lying, when they can just... not? They've been clear about who they are and what they're doing from the start. The "I say what I want" crowd can't say what they want there, and if they keep having y'all show up and try and ignore the rules, then why wouldn't they just get rid of you all at once?

You're trying to claim conspiracy as to why you've been dis-invited from the party, when the reality is they just realized they didn't want you there. Because, and this is the kicker that I can't tell whether you know about or not, they only defederated from a couple of Lemmy sites. Most of us still have access.

[–] Nerd02@forum.basedcount.com 2 points 1 year ago

Friendly reminder that if you aren't hosting your own instance you don't have "your own Reddit"

...nor blackjack, nor hookers, for that matter..

[–] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where are the hookers?

[–] MoreIronOre@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Hey there tiger

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Now I know why I left Reddit. Already a better experiance. But uh... where are the hookers at though? Are we waiting for them to leave reddit too?

[–] mykl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Way to get defederated, people 😩

[–] Mcballs1234@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where is our black jack

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

lemmynsfw.com

I've heard it from a friend 👀

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