Best to unsubscribe from any Beehaw communities until they refederate. It’s not that things are fracturing, it’s that Beehaw has a certain set of ethos they want to maintain, and the lack of mod tools currently makes that impossible at the moment. There’s no bad blood between the instances.
More people need to understand this. “Defederate” is a big scary word, and carries the negative connotations of “cutting contact because I don’t want anything to do with you people.” But in this case it’s not that at all, it’s more of a “we’re overgrown and want to prioritize quality over size, so while moderation stuff’s in development, we’re just gonna isolate in our little paradise for a while.” Which is fine. That’s the purpose of decentralisation - the community chooses what to do with itself.
Wanna be a positive, high-quality, highly moderated group kinda separate from the rest? You can do that (beehaw).
Wanna be a bunch of tankies circle jerking over pictures of Stalin? Sure Everyone will defederate from you and call you weird… But you can do that too! (Lemmygrad)
And wanna keep more of the traditional “Reddit” feel from before they got money-crazed and feel apart? Join Lemmy world (even though beehaw keeps their distance for now).
Defederation isn’t a weapon - it’s a tool.
And for me? I’m just sitting here on pawb.social, with reddit’s furry haters finally gone, watching both Lemmy.world and beehaw … And everything else because we don’t defederate much. (Except Lemmygrad. We’ll defederate that. Wouldn’t touch that with a 20 metre pole…)
Yeah i blocked all beehaw communities so they don’t show up for now - not out of bad blood or anything, but just so I don’t accidentally comment in a place where it wont be read.
Beehaw only has a very limited number of communities anyway, so i see this as a good way to build up the equivalent communities (news, tech etc) elsewhere.
Long story short, Beehaw is a heavily moderated instance and said that Lemmy didn’t have strong moderation tools yet. So for the time being, they have defederated.
is lemmy already fracturing so I can’t see stuff on beehaw? Doesn’t this kind of defeat the purpose?
I’d say it’s both a feature and a bug of the Fediverse!
Everyone is free to start their own server, just as everyone is free to splinter off. This means no central authority deciding what you can see and can’t see.
In the ideal state, there would be multiple servers with the same discussion topic (eg a few “news” communities would exist on beehaw, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml etc). Each of them will slowly take a different direction. This is already kinda happening on reddit (news, worldnews, neutralnews, etc), but here it should happen across servers.
Beehaw is a bit of a weird animal, they don’t like having so many users all at once because it leads to moderation issues. I think they should have just appointed more mods, but they decided on the last-resort option of splintering off temporarily. They really value having a small,close-knit community - they don’t allow people to start their own communities (the subreddit equivalent), downvotes aren’t allowed, etc, so discussion is only focused on a few main channels.
As a new user, i think it’s fine for you to be on lemmyworld! It has the largest variety of content here, although the pace of new content is still slow because lemmy has 1% of 1% of reddit’s userbase. Feel free to contribute!
The takeaway for now is, you can see beehaw posts but can’t really participate. I personally found it useful to block beehaw communities so I can see the activity elsewhere. The current default lemmy sort isn’t very good - I would try sorting by Hot or New.
Thanks for this explanation. I’m starting to understand this a bit more and more. I think once apps become more mature things will become better… I was spoiled by Apollo.
The fediverse was always “fractured”, which is the whole point of it. Beehaw is a heavily moderated and with that censored instance. If you’re not a fan of that, then you just shouldn’t join Beehaw. Lemmy.world is still federated with the majority of instances, so is kbin and a lot of other big instances.
The point of the fediverse is decentralization, so it doesn’t really defeat the purpose. It’s what makes sure what happened on reddit and twitter doesn’t happen on the fediverse.
Some people want to be in a tightly controlled, highly moderated environment. Some people want basically no moderation, and many people are in between. The nice thing about decentralization is that each of those groups of people can have their communities without breaking the others, and depending on everyone’s tolerance for one another they can participate in each other’s communities.
This is common on the fediverse, and it sucks that some communities don’t want to be part of what the rest of us enjoy, but that’s their choice.
I’m vocally against defederation except in extreme cases, but I understand why communities that want to lock down and only allow voices they agree with even if I disagree with it completely. The key is to reward libre instances with attention in my opinion.
You can’t see new stuff from beehaw, unless the new stuff is posted by other members of your own instance.
Each instance has its own rules and requirements, and beehaw decided that moderating users from lemmy.world and sh.it.justworks due to the volume of said users is too difficult with the current moderation tools and staff - so they defederated.
This leaves lemmy.world unable to sync with original communities on beehaw, so it can’t update its own copy of the community with new posts and comments. But it also leaves members of beehaw unable to sync with Lemmy.world. - federation is by default enabled or “opt-out”, but in order to federate both instances have to agree to do so, if one suddenly refuses to federate, then no federation happens.
The thing about the fediverse is it allows you to go where you want - my instance (iusearchlinux.fyi) is still federated with both, so I can see both beehaw and Lemmy.world, comment and make posts on both. - if you don’t like who you are federated with or not with, find a new instance.
Wait so as I just moved here from Reddit… is lemmy already fracturing so I can’t see stuff on beehaw? Doesn’t this kind of defeat the purpose?
I’m so confused by all of this lol. So I can’t see beehaw stuff from lemmyworld? I thought the whole purpose was the ability to see that stuff.
Best to unsubscribe from any Beehaw communities until they refederate. It’s not that things are fracturing, it’s that Beehaw has a certain set of ethos they want to maintain, and the lack of mod tools currently makes that impossible at the moment. There’s no bad blood between the instances.
More people need to understand this. “Defederate” is a big scary word, and carries the negative connotations of “cutting contact because I don’t want anything to do with you people.” But in this case it’s not that at all, it’s more of a “we’re overgrown and want to prioritize quality over size, so while moderation stuff’s in development, we’re just gonna isolate in our little paradise for a while.” Which is fine. That’s the purpose of decentralisation - the community chooses what to do with itself.
Wanna be a positive, high-quality, highly moderated group kinda separate from the rest? You can do that (beehaw).
Wanna be a bunch of tankies circle jerking over pictures of Stalin? Sure Everyone will defederate from you and call you weird… But you can do that too! (Lemmygrad)
And wanna keep more of the traditional “Reddit” feel from before they got money-crazed and feel apart? Join Lemmy world (even though beehaw keeps their distance for now).
Defederation isn’t a weapon - it’s a tool.
And for me? I’m just sitting here on pawb.social, with reddit’s furry haters finally gone, watching both Lemmy.world and beehaw … And everything else because we don’t defederate much. (Except Lemmygrad. We’ll defederate that. Wouldn’t touch that with a 20 metre pole…)
Yeah i blocked all beehaw communities so they don’t show up for now - not out of bad blood or anything, but just so I don’t accidentally comment in a place where it wont be read.
Beehaw only has a very limited number of communities anyway, so i see this as a good way to build up the equivalent communities (news, tech etc) elsewhere.
Long story short, Beehaw is a heavily moderated instance and said that Lemmy didn’t have strong moderation tools yet. So for the time being, they have defederated.
Here’s their rational: https://lemm.ee/post/58240
I’d say it’s both a feature and a bug of the Fediverse!
Everyone is free to start their own server, just as everyone is free to splinter off. This means no central authority deciding what you can see and can’t see.
In the ideal state, there would be multiple servers with the same discussion topic (eg a few “news” communities would exist on beehaw, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml etc). Each of them will slowly take a different direction. This is already kinda happening on reddit (news, worldnews, neutralnews, etc), but here it should happen across servers.
Beehaw is a bit of a weird animal, they don’t like having so many users all at once because it leads to moderation issues. I think they should have just appointed more mods, but they decided on the last-resort option of splintering off temporarily. They really value having a small,close-knit community - they don’t allow people to start their own communities (the subreddit equivalent), downvotes aren’t allowed, etc, so discussion is only focused on a few main channels.
As a new user, i think it’s fine for you to be on lemmyworld! It has the largest variety of content here, although the pace of new content is still slow because lemmy has 1% of 1% of reddit’s userbase. Feel free to contribute!
The takeaway for now is, you can see beehaw posts but can’t really participate. I personally found it useful to block beehaw communities so I can see the activity elsewhere. The current default lemmy sort isn’t very good - I would try sorting by Hot or New.
Thanks for this explanation. I’m starting to understand this a bit more and more. I think once apps become more mature things will become better… I was spoiled by Apollo.
The fediverse was always “fractured”, which is the whole point of it. Beehaw is a heavily moderated and with that censored instance. If you’re not a fan of that, then you just shouldn’t join Beehaw. Lemmy.world is still federated with the majority of instances, so is kbin and a lot of other big instances.
The point of the fediverse is decentralization, so it doesn’t really defeat the purpose. It’s what makes sure what happened on reddit and twitter doesn’t happen on the fediverse.
Some people want to be in a tightly controlled, highly moderated environment. Some people want basically no moderation, and many people are in between. The nice thing about decentralization is that each of those groups of people can have their communities without breaking the others, and depending on everyone’s tolerance for one another they can participate in each other’s communities.
This is common on the fediverse, and it sucks that some communities don’t want to be part of what the rest of us enjoy, but that’s their choice.
I’m vocally against defederation except in extreme cases, but I understand why communities that want to lock down and only allow voices they agree with even if I disagree with it completely. The key is to reward libre instances with attention in my opinion.
You can’t see new stuff from beehaw, unless the new stuff is posted by other members of your own instance.
Each instance has its own rules and requirements, and beehaw decided that moderating users from lemmy.world and sh.it.justworks due to the volume of said users is too difficult with the current moderation tools and staff - so they defederated.
This leaves lemmy.world unable to sync with original communities on beehaw, so it can’t update its own copy of the community with new posts and comments. But it also leaves members of beehaw unable to sync with Lemmy.world. - federation is by default enabled or “opt-out”, but in order to federate both instances have to agree to do so, if one suddenly refuses to federate, then no federation happens.
The thing about the fediverse is it allows you to go where you want - my instance (iusearchlinux.fyi) is still federated with both, so I can see both beehaw and Lemmy.world, comment and make posts on both. - if you don’t like who you are federated with or not with, find a new instance.