Wait, what? Beehaw is defederated? I still see lots of post from Beehaw on my feed.
The mods announced it today. There’s a giant pinned thread on Beehaw about it.
I tried making posts here on my Beehaw account and I could see them while logged into Beehaw but not when logged into Lemmy.world. Some of my older posts were no longer visible outside of my Beehaw account. Also some of my posts had comments from Beehaw people vanish all at once. My older posts from the Beehaw account are still visible, so I think some posts/comments remain visible if they happened before defederation.
I’m not sure which levers the mods there are pulling because the effects do seem inconsistent, and the mods seem in a bit of a frenzy trying to figure it out themselves.
Federation is a two-way connection. Beehaw shut off the incoming stream, essentially, so anyone commenting or posting on spaces from that instance will not be seen by users logged into Beehaw. However, the outgoing stream is still active so anything posted there that you subscribe to or visit from another instance can still be seen. Users on other instances can even comment in those threads, but users on Beehaw would not see those comments.
For me it helps to think of the instance you are logged into as the place you trust the most. Content from other sources can always come in, but you can choose to simply not see things you don’t want. This is a fundamental part of how the Fediverse works, for better or worse.
That’s interesting. What happens if a lemmy user replies to a beehaw user’s comment from a lemmy instance? Does the beehaw user just never see it?
Cooool, I was wondering this. I had been curious if it was 1 party or 2 party federation; so someone can defederate, but it doesn’t “block” receipt of content, only the interaction with the blocked platform?
There is a post explaining the details here: https://lemmy.world/post/149743
Ok I took a minute to read some of it. It’s just confusing to me, how is Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works for whatever reason is not like exactly like what Reddit is doing to third party apps? You want to federate with us? Sure, but you have to play by OUR rules. That’s not how it should work.
You will see posts but you won’t be able to interact with any one outside of lemmy.world users. They can’t keep up with the number of users and have defederated from a huge number of instances.
I believe beehaw only degenerated from lemmy. If you’re on kbin you can still see both.
Only from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, not with others AFAIK. The anouncementpost can be found here https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Exactly. Am no longer using my lemmy.world account. I made a kbin one first, before I realised that Jerboa didn’t support it. So now I have three accounts.
If you want to see or interact with Kbin using Jerboa, you should be able to do that via your lemmy.world account as long as you have the same subscriptions set up in both instances.
If you had created an account on a provider that wasn’t lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works you’d had access to everything but with just one account.
Even if you disagree with beehaw, it’s not a bad idea since it spreads the load of users across instances.
Not quite any other instance, quite a few that they have blocked in total, you can see the full list towards the bottom of https://beehaw.org/instances
I hedged my bets and created accounts on both Lemmy.world and kbin.social just in case one of them crashed completely or defederated from something I followed. I find the whole federation thing super interesting though, I’ve always worked IRL on different types of systems installation/integration so I think my brain is just naturally drawn to novel ways of doing stuff.
It gets more confusing when the instance you joined decides to unfederate and half of your subs stop working! Then you have to join a new instance and start over because subs nor usernames carry over.
Do you have a grasp of the fediverse now?
It was confusing at first
The confusion never went away. Beehaw defederated, so I understand that you would then have to create a specific Beehaw account in order to engage with Beehaw communities, but why would I want to as a Lemmy.world user, is what I’m confused about.
That’s not the most convenient though. You could have an account on any instance that’s not lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works and you’d be able to access both beehaw and Lemmyworld/shitjustworks
I got my account on lemm.ee and was wondering how the defederation affected me, good to know, thanks.
It doesn’t. Beehaw blocked LW and SIJW because of open sign ups and, what I assume, was people creating new accounts when their old one was banned.
If you’re not on any of those two instances or on beehaw, you’re not impacted.
Beehaw is sending a message, imho, that instances need take reasonable measures to ensure their users don’t repeatedly commit some sort of abuse.
This raises a question about the use case of user-only instances and community-only instances which might not be a bad idea.
My understanding from the announcement post was because those are two large instances with open registration, and they want to be able to better vet new users to make sure they’re not trolls
As of now I have an account on lemmy.world and kbin.social
