Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts.

Edit: A lot of people are asking why Beehaw did this. I want to keep this post informational and not color it with my personal opinion. I am adding a link to the Beehaw announcement if you are interested in reading it, you can form your own views. https://beehaw.org/post/567170

  • tooting_lemmyEnglish
    164·
    1 year ago

    I’m entitled to leave to another instance. One of the main things to look at when choosing an instance is who they are federated/defederated with. I would never join BeeHaw Lemmy.world, or Sh.itjust.works because of their feud. I’d rather join a third party instance and have access to all the content on all three.

    • EpeeGnome@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      233·
      1 year ago

      It’s not a feud, lol. Admins from all of them say they talked it out and they plan to re-federate in the future. Beehaw wants to be a heavily moderated instance, and lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works were growing faster than Beehaw’s moderation ability.

    • Damaniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      1 year ago

      Until the instance you choose to set up on ends up in a feud with any, or all of those instances.

      The whole fediverse experiment is going to end up with a number of small, highly segregated communities, and even more political polarization. I guess if you want to live in an echo chamber, a federated environment is the best way to go about it.

      • tooting_lemmyEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think so, Lemmy is just going through growing pains. Those instances are already talking about refederating.