Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances
I don’t get the issue here.
This is common in de-centralized social media.
Federation allows the admins of a server to decide what kind of servers they want to federate with, but also to defederate from others.
It’s only two servers that were creating problems with all the trolling and intolerant comments that came from there. Beehaw didn’t isolate itself/blocked everyone else in the fediverse.
I think one of the problems is communities all being created on the same few big instances that allow anyone to create one.
I think this is a fair choice for Beehaw to make, but I am frustrated that now I have less content to read. I wish we had better community discovery tools.
The sad reality is that during the reddit blackout, people were pushing lemmy (specifically Beehaw) as the reddit replacement because yay decentralized, federated, fun!
For a lot of those reddit refugees the effort they put into making content and trying to make Beehaw their home is gone now.
They’re not going to want to start all over at a new instance and rebuild yet again.
They’re just going to go back to reddit
I feel like the concept of “decentralisation” is good for the consuming users and people who want to discuss an interesting topic/subject, but not really for OC/content craetors… They just want their work to be as exposed to as many people as possible (exposure -> more clients -> bigger brand/value -> profit???), and defederalisating goes against that principle.
I think the issue is that everyone’s so focused on seeing Lemmy as a “notReddit” that they outright get pissed when it doesn’t work the way they think it should (like Reddit except the parts they think are bad)
Lemmy (and kbin, and other similar platforms) and Reddit have the same niche, but they’re not the same thing
I created my first account there but left for lemmy.world once I realised users couldn’t create communities and all the communities were controlled by the same small group of admins.
I had enough of such cabals on Reddit.
No mods, No masters