As I was posting in the other thread, they are blocking almost 300 communities and the reason for these last two is that having four mods they can’t keep up with the huge influx of users. What is worse, they call it temporary until there are better moderation tools, but reading further what they hope for is the ability to block external users while allowing theirs to browse other communities
There’s no way they can reasonably continue to host the largest threadiverse instances with this plan.
The solution is easy, the other lemmy instances can simple defederate beehaw in return and create new communities.
For real, fuck 'em they clearly want some setup where they are the center of the fediverse that benefits only their users and be an exclusive club. They want their cake and eat it too, but also force everyone else to watch. Then did this at a pretty crucial point in Lemmy’s growth
Sounds kinda like they are trying to grab “power” aka. growing their community more than others through exclusivity.
Well if that turns out to be the case other communities can probably just block them in return, but still not a fan of that development
Isn’t federation symmetrical? So if they defederate most of the Fediverse, they will not be able to interact with it?
I think it’s logical to keep it that way.
I agree. It makes it cost a bit more to defederate and therefore more valuable to keep everything open and available. The best thing with reddit was that it was a one-stop shop while it’s a bit more confusing with this federation stuff. If this defederation wasn’t a two-way street, it would make for weird exclusive instances that could thrive on others content without contributing.
They’re prompting the devs to make defederation one way. So they can block the fediverse at large from interacting with them but their users still have access to everything. Sets a bad example. The pitch is a pooled community. Not a series of tiny insulated Reddits using the same software
