This is more of a question for the admins, but this can certainly be a more open discussion.
Per this thread, beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works two months ago, around the time that the reddit exodus was happening. Lemmy was blowing up, those instances had an open sign-up policy, and this meant that admins of other instances (like Beehaw) that wanted to heavily moderate their communities became quickly overwhelmed with the number of users from these two instances. Beehaw defederated to make the workload more realistic.
Two months on, I’m wondering if this defederation is still necessary. It seems to me that Lemmy overall has slowed down a lot, and maybe the flow of users from these outside servers would not be as overwhelming as it was before? I respect the decision of the admins one way or the other - I know that the lack of moderation tools was another factor in this decision. I’m just curious if this is something that has been considered recently?
All only shows content from instances that Beehaw is federated with, FYI.
And, it’s only communities someone on beehaw has specifically subscribed to. Communities from federated instances won’t show up in all if no one from beehaw has ever subscribed to them.
Hm, if someone subscribes to a federated community, and then unsubscribes, does it keep getting pulled in?
I’m not sure. Once the connection has been made I’d assume it stays but I haven’t verified.
Is there a way to see all the communities on your instances c/all?
Edit: Nvm it is at the top of the page.
I’m not sure actually, but that’s a good idea.
I found it. You have to press the communities tab at the top of your instance and press all
Thank you.
yeah my bad I looked and it’s actually called “Everything”