What defederating would mean:
- We wonβt see beehaw.org posts/comments on other instances.
Pros:
- There is less confusion, you canβt respond to a beehaw.org user, thinking they will be able to see your response when in reality they cannot.
Cons:
- We wonβt 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 wonβt 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 βfront pageβ).
beehaw.org users already canβt see our posts/comments anywhere so itβs not like defederating would change their experience in any way, so it wouldnβt really be retaliation and would just limit the content available to lemmy.world users.
What do you think?
Just like kbin, on beehaw the communities are fixed, and only admins can create communities, right?
Yep. It has the benefit that it concentrates the userbase in the existing communities. But it also creates a really static site and is at more risk of moderator abuse.