My personal tldr is that lemmy.world & sh.itjust.works have open registration and beehaw admins are have had enough dealing with a ton of troll accounts from these 2 instances. Is this a problem for Midwest.social? I’m subscribed to a couple of (non toxic I hope) communities.

  • stickyShift@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    No, midwest.social hasn’t defederated from either community (as far as I know) and you should continue to see and be able to interact with content from all 3. It’s just that users on behaw won’t be able to see/interact with content from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, and vice versa.

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      1 year ago

      That and the lack of quality mod tools built into Lemmy. Anything popular on the internet has to deal with trolls and other bad actors trying to be disruptive. Users can go to the open registration instances and make a new account as fast as the instance mods can ban them.

      My first thought was this was some ego bullshit in a new and growing platform. But apparently the Beehaw people reached out to the other instances and they all agreed that defederating was the only real option for now.

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        i think lemmy pulled in the text of the whole article as a summary, instead of just a small part of it. I guess Lemmy doesn’t know what to do correctly when linking to a post on a Lemmy :D