I read that they “defederated”… What does this mean? And why did they do this? And what are the consequences?

  • dethleffs@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Wel, they explain that in this case, it wasn’t all that nice to receive content from other servers, because it was a lot of work to moderate posts of users from two instances with no sign up requirements. They also said they couldnt wait on moderation tools being developed. They’ll refederate once the storm dies down I strongly believe.

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      1 year ago

      To describe this as defederating from “two instances” really undersells the impact. Those two instances represent 40% of the active userbase of the top ten instances in the lemmyverse in the last month, or well more than 30% of the entire active lemmyverse. When you add beehaw’s active user count into the mix, over 50% of the lemmyverse has been cut off from each other. This is an absolutely massive disruption to the federated network that will impact everyone for months to come… and has already created far far more moderation and support work than it has saved. See https://the-federation.info/platform/73 for user stats.