Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts.

Edit: A lot of people are asking why Beehaw did this. I want to keep this post informational and not color it with my personal opinion. I am adding a link to the Beehaw announcement if you are interested in reading it, you can form your own views. https://beehaw.org/post/567170

  • rimlogger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    Wow so much misinformed hostility against Beehaw here. The mod tools for Lemmy are currently limited and they just want to protect their community from trolls and spam. There’s no conspiracy here to break federation.

    • CorruptBuddha@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Beehaw is some pseudo moral purity echo chamber. They consider anyone with a contrary opinion a troll. People create these “safe spaces” under the guise of protecting minority groups, but fuck… I’m a minority, and I knew immediately I wasn’t going to be welcome there.

      People are free to judge it as they please.

      –edit–

      Why aren’t other instances having this problem? Like if trolls and spam are such an issue, why do I only see relevant on topic comments in other instances?

      The issue isn’t trolls, it’s political dissent. And if you care about the truth, if you care about having the ability to talk about and express your ideas freely to other people, to have uncomfortable discussions with people you disagree with, to be exposed to new ideas, and fuck… to possibly even change your mind, you shouldn’t support beehaw.

      If you genuinely want that type of environment, go for it, but that place should be called out for what it is.

      This type of political authoritianism is why I left Reddit. It kills discussion, and I’m here for critical discussion.

    • Myriadblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      True, but unsubbed from them when it happened because I don’t want to see communities I can’t interact with.

      Why add to the problem and have frustration with wanting to discuss something you are blocked from?

      • rimlogger@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        They have every right to protect themselves against spam. But that said, ever since they defederated, their activity and user numbers are down.