What defederating would mean:

  • We won’t see beehaw.org posts/comments on other instances.

Pros:

  • There is less confusion, you can’t respond to a beehaw.org user, thinking they will be able to see your response when in reality they cannot.

Cons:

  • We won’t be able to see any beehaw.org comments/posts on other instances, so we will miss out on some comment threads and posts. It could be good to be able to see them and interact with the other users there even though beehaw.org users won’t see any of our content.

Summary

Overall, I think it is better not to defederate, but simply unsubscribe from all of their communities (and as we no longer get posts from their instance, with time these will cease to appear on our ‘front page’).

beehaw.org users already can’t see our posts/comments anywhere so it’s not like defederating would change their experience in any way, so it wouldn’t really be retaliation and would just limit the content available to lemmy.world users.

What do you think?

  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 years ago

    Now im sitting here wondering if I offended anyone over there lol. It’s hard to imagine, but since I’ve seen no bad actors myself, I’m starting to think that it’s possible I did, unknowingly, with zero intent to do so, and they just have a really strict thing going on. I doubt it’s the case, or I hope not at least.

    • Wolfric1982@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 years ago

      No it wasn’t you. There were a couple of accounts that went in and spammed a whole bunch of bigoted posts.

    • curiosityLynx@kbin.social
      201·
      2 years ago

      It isn’t the case.

      The first problem was actual trolls using were using lemmy.world’s open and automated registration (beehaw makes you write why you want to join and manually approves registrations based on that) to troll Beehaw.

      The second problem was that the moderation tools aren’t mature enough yet to deal with problem one with anything between manually banning every troll (which will immediately come back by creating another lemmy.world account) and total defederation from the instances most of those trolls are coming from.

      Because Beehaw’s mission statement is to be a safe space, it was decided to go with the defederation option.

      However, the defederation isn’t planned to be permanent. Improvements in mod tools and/or maturing of communities are said to be reasons to rederate again.

    • dan1101@lemmy.world
      71·
      2 years ago

      Doubtful you offended anyone. I think beehaw was seeing serious things like child porn and anti-LGBT posts, and traced them back to lemmy.world or the other one.

      • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        OK thanks for reassuring me, I know people are pretty sensitive anymore, and I’m out of the loop ftmp on PC culture, and while I’m extremely progressive in every facet of my life, I still worry…but I think that’s just a me problem tbh.

      • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        Yea I got in the habit of ignoring my inbox on reddit due to anxiety.

        I am making an effort to be mindful, and honest, and I’ve been checking my inbox!

        Now I just have anxiety about me saying “too much” as far as personal experiences, and emotions etc.

        Either way I figure if I’m honest, and people hate, f em.