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what does it mean that Beehaw "defederated" from lemmy.world? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Dick_Justice@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I thought I understood, but I still have Beehaw content in my feed, so I guess I don't understand after all... Can someone dumb it down for me?

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[-] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago

Was there a reason why they defederated??

[-] z500@startrek.website 24 points 2 years ago

Apparently the 4 admins are having trouble dealing with the influx of new users, so they defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works because their open registration policies are giving them the most problems.

https://beehaw.org/post/567170

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

Ok I'm one of the new users and it looks like I've commented on communities hosted there maybe a half dozen times. I guess I'm part of the problem 😔

But I'm a little unclear about the role an admin plays on an instance? Are they actually taking on mod responsibilities, in which case I can certainly understand how 4 would be totally swamped?

I guess in my head I sort of imagined each community has its own mod(s) and the admins would only step in as a kind of "supreme court" if some dispute gets out of hand? I've probably got this totally wrong.

[-] z500@startrek.website 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah that's what I was wondering. I'm just going off what they said. I know they don't allow communities to be created except what they did themselves, so maybe they are taking on all the mod responsibilities?