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Beehaw* defederated us?
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this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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Yes, I understand that, but this seems to be effectively the same. Why not leave the decision to the individual users?
Well, the fediverse kind of seems to be the wrong choice for them, then. It lives from the federation. If you want to be isolated it's just a plain old forum.
But what stops a troll just writing whatever they think the Admins want to read in the form?
It just seems like security theatre, it provides the illusion that they are filtering their userbase, but in reality there's no way for them to validate whatever anyone writes, so it's pretty worthless.
I’d even say it’s more likely for someone that specifically wants to troll beehaw to fill out those questions and potential genuine users are more likely to just use another instance with an easier sign up process
Seems like you are missing the point a bit.
Because of the open registration policy of those instances and the many users they do not have the necessary tools and manpower to moderate harassing and offensive posts which go against their policy (which they can absolutely set as they want, since it's their instance) so they block the users of those instances from posting and commenting for the time being.
So it's not about isolation themselves just for the sake of being and exclusive club of people but because the moderators can't handle the amount of traffic
Blocking all users from those instances still feels like overkill for me. Just let the beehaw users block the offensive users from other instaces if they feel they need to? That would be far more selective.
Doesn't that just put the onus on blocking communities onto the individual user? If that's the case, then why bother joining a community like Beehaw - which is marked as a Safe Space for folk?
Personally, I feel it's within their rights to block communities with open signup rules, at least until better moderation tools are present.
Exactly my thoughts 👍.