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Great article, except super cringe at the end suggesting Beehaw specifically and not saying "Lemmy" or something to indicate it is part of a wider service.
Because people keep unintentionally hyping up Beehaw, they do not understand that Beehaw is nothing special and that everyone would be better off unsubscribing from its communities to let it be its own island since it doesn't like the whole federation concept anyway (at least not since it finished exploiting it to grow to its current user count). I already unsubscribed from all their communities after their dick move.
I'm kinda out of the loop here, but what happened to beehaw? What did I miss out on?
Long story short, they don't have the mod capacity to micromanage evry single comment, since unless you defederate, you have to moderate every comment and post that gets seen by your instance, so the whole fediverse basically, and they just can't do that.
Some instances have attracted some toxic behaviors and federating with them added an influx of comments that weren't in line with their rules.
They decided to defederate all the big instances that didn't filter sing ups.
It's a blanket solution, and honestly, I don't blame them for it, lemmy moderation is a bit hell.
Their rules are a bit strict, but I approve of what they are trying to do, creating a "safe" space... The rest of the fediverse is a bit of a far-west with anything goes being the rule...
Exactly. And beehaw is far from the only instance that has had to defederate to limit not attacks and trolling. Beehaw just did it more than others.
There's nothing to stop instances refederating later, and no doubt this will happen when the dust settles and the tools are developed.