Can't bothered beehaw users just simply block the instances they don't like by themselfes? Does this have to be instance-wide?
I like how lemmy wanted to replace Reddit, but within days it's starting to completely crumble.
That attitude on a three day old account surely isn't engaging with a sense of longevity.
Would this mean that there'll be no access to communities on Beehaw?
Could someone list the popular communities in Beehaw and their alternatives on other instances?
I think that'd be useful.
only to people on the instances they are defederating from, so smaller instances and selfhosters will be unaffected.
Gotta wait for better modding tools and scripts to become available, wont take long.
It‘s the bubble concept I already curated for myself on Reddit by filtering out what feels like half the website. Except now I can sort of choose my pre-made bubble, which is more effort to be certain (have to research the admins of a chosen instance a bit and understand their rules and values), but I don‘t mind that.
Do subscribed users from the blocked instances still count against their communities' totals?
Maybe making an account in a big instance is not that great of an idea after all. What benefit does it actually have?
big instances are more likely to stay up. smaller instances may just be some random user who might not be as interested in maintaining the site and may end up closing it. this happened to me when I used mastodon, I joined a smaller instance and they ended up shutting down.
There's a possible future where major fediverse sites switch to whitelisted federation to deal with spam etc. At that point, your small instance would have to petition all the major players to be let in. That would probably kill off most small instances.
100%. The best instance to be on is actually your own. Failing that, a small one where the admins are easy to get a hold of.
Big ones that offer extra goodies might become a thing ala Gmail, but I expect they will vet and monitor their users so nobody has to block them.
Edit: Annoyingly, I can't respond to Kbin users,
Hard disagree. You're stating a subjective opinion about the experience you want to have as a hard fact about the experience everyone else should have. You don't get to tell other people what they like.
Being on an instance that is well-moderated without you having to do that work yourself is one of the selling points of fedi apps. I am sure a huge number of people who signed up on Beehaw wanted exactly this.
it's extremely useful to newbies and less tech-savvy people who don't know how to find communities on other instances
at the current moment when federation is still a bit wonky due to the influx of new members, it's good to have the bulk of content you want to see be on your own instance. I can't login to lemmy.world, but I can log into kbin. But until recently I was only able to see posts 5 hours old on other instances from kbin.
I was really enjoying some of Beehaw's communities... Can TheDude request a re-federation?
I think it's actually Beehaw
Home of the sh.itjust.works instance.
