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Is defederation from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works still necessary? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by theangriestbird@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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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?

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[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

They're pretty different for me. Beehaw is more community oriented - it reminds me of the smaller subs where you had regulars who talked about or gave advice on the content like vaporents. Kbin however is just as good for me, it just reminds me more of scrolling my hobby feed, whereas Beehaw honestly is a lot of news and politics on mine.

I have subbed to pretty much the first 30 pages of Magazines that I'm interested in on Kbin and it's small but throughout the week it's pretty varied. I actually haven't gone through my subscriptions on Beehaw since not long after I made it, so it's still pretty default. Like I said, it's much more community chat based with news.

But I can probably change that just by adjusting my subscriptions on Beehaw, I just haven't gotten around to it yet :) I like both for what they are, though I wish kbin had a little more activity. I'm also lucky, I haven't personally seen any negativity whatsoever over there, but some people have reported issues which is disheartening.