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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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I'd second the recommendation to avoid BeeHaw. That's where I started when I left Reddit. It's not bad per se there. I wouldn't say that they are rude or anything. The big problem is that they've decided to defederate from many other Lemmy instances.
In case anyone doesn't understand federation, imagine if you signed up for an email address and then realized that, because the person running the email service decided so, you can't email anyone at Gmail.com or Hotmail.com. If you have nobody you want to email there (no Lemmy communities you want to interact with there), then it's not a problem. However, if you decide you really want to join a community there, it gets difficult.
I left BeeHaw and signed up for Lemmy.world.
I don't understand the big push to defederate from other instances when individual users can block instances as they please.
Individuals can't block whole instances yet (apart from via a browser extension), once that feature arrives there will be a lot less call for defederation I expect.
I didn't know that. Thank you for clarifying.