I can’t see any comments from beehaw users, but the new posts from beehaw subs still show up when I sort the frontpage by “All” communities.

Am I miss understanding something here?

  • AineLasagnaEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Maybe I missed some drama- why did Beehaw defederate? I have an account on there although I mainly use this one now

    • Action Bastard@lemmy.world@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      Beehaw, to my understanding, has 4 mods who do all the management for every single community in the entire instance.

      Works okay when there’s only 1,000 people.

      Works less okay when there’s 50,000.

    • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      The Beehaw admins saw a disproportionately high amount of rule breaking coming from lemmy.world. They posted about it and specifically said that the issue was a combination of lemmy.world’s huge userbase and open-door signup policy.

      • polygon@kbin.social
        11·
        2 years ago

        Also Beehaw bills itself as a “safe and inclusive space” which is huge bait to a certain type of internet scumbag. It makes Beehaw a large target for trolling and abuse. Without tools to deal with this I can see the logic in just defederating until moderation can get better. They’ve also been in contact with the instances they’ve defederated from and are discussing ways to move forward because everyone realizes this isn’t an ideal situation.

        I can sympathize with why they felt this was their only option, but on the plus side, this situation might just spur development of real moderation tools that are desperately needed for anyone running a Lemmy instance. Some people want to hate on Beehaw for their decision but honestly we might all be benefiting from it in the long run.

    • techtask@kbin.social
      6·
      2 years ago

      Apparently some male user(s?) from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works went to a feminist sub/magazine/whatever on beehaw and was posting explicit pictures of their junk. I suppose the admin tools aren’t there to automate preventing it, so they just defederated?

      The owners/admins of any of the instances aren’t mad or anything, they just disagree about how to vet users (or vet at all), so until there’s better moderation tools, they just defederated.

      https://beehaw.org/post/567170