Beehaw is defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, two large lemmy instances : kbinMeta

[-] minnieo@kbin.social 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

this comment about it is great: https://kbin.social/m/main@sh.itjust.works/t/22433/Beehaw-defederated-us#entry-comment-90015

"I think it's easy to take this personally but I think it's more about the moderation tools in Lemmy not being adequate at the moment so this is the best bandaid solution for now. We need to quickly put effort into developing better moderation tools like limiting other servers without fully defederating, limiting specific communities, forcing nsfw on communities/instances, proxying reports to origin servers so admins have better feedback on their instance user's bad behavior, and many other things if we want to prevent defederating like this from being the only option.

I think infighting about this decision and differing moderation styles instead of focusing together on moderation challenges and tooling deficiencies risks tearing the community / federation apart and is counterproductive to the goal of being better than reddit."

there will be growing pains.

[-] goat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] MattMist@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Their stance on some things is maybe a bit too drastic for some, but they already have one of the largest communities for certain topics like gaming (at least last I checked), so we may lose out on the content that would help people stay long-term, which is sad.

[-] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

People should stop looking at where the biggest community is. Are you an actor or a spectator? Start creating content in your own instance. This is what killed reddit, too much spectators, all sharing the same on-liner jokes. Do you have an interesting take about a videogame? Then share it. Write things down.

[-] DarkMatter_contract@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

That is an ideal take, however what i think make large community and a upvote or downvote system like reddit interesting is that with volume, good idea and disccusion is more likely to occurs. why did we go to forum anyway. i think it is to find different opinion and interesting disccusion and what other think of our opinion. If we just want to share our own opinion or take on something, a blog would do better.

[-] Kichae@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Good discussions don't occur on huge subreddits.

no discussions occur on huge subreddits.

Discussions involve back-and-forths, and require the ability to actually focus on another person. There's no focusing when there are 20,009 comments and everyone is just mindlessly scrolling past the top 200 before moving to another post.

[-] Frigorific@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

If you are a subreddit drama enjoyer this exact sort of thing only adds more appeal to the fediverse.

/kbin meta