FantasticFoxJun 15, 2023

Why lemmy.world should not defederate from beehaw.org.

https://lemmy.world/post/151254

Why lemmy.world should not defederate from beehaw.org. - Lemmy.world

What defederating would mean: - We won’t see beehaw.org [http://beehaw.org] posts/comments on other instances. Pros: - There is less confusion, you can’t respond to a beehaw.org [http://beehaw.org] user, thinking they will be able to see your response when in reality they cannot. Cons: - We won’t be able to see any beehaw.org [http://beehaw.org] comments/posts on other instances, so we will miss out on some comment threads and posts. It could be good to be able to see them and interact with the other users there even though beehaw.org [http://beehaw.org] users won’t see any of our content. Summary Overall, I think it is better not to defederate, but simply unsubscribe from all of their communities (and as we no longer get posts from their instance, with time these will cease to appear on our ‘front page’). beehaw.org [http://beehaw.org] users already can’t see our posts/comments anywhere so it’s not like defederating would change their experience in any way, so it wouldn’t really be retaliation and would just limit the content available to lemmy.world users. What do you think?

Show threadpoVoqJun 15, 2023
They might also remove the block again in the future when moderation tools have improved and/or lemmy.world does a better job at vetting users, and then it would work better to have never blocked them.
Show threadNorthernLightMountainJun 15, 2023
That's basically what they said they'd do
Show threadcertain_people
Except their perspective of "when moderation tools have improved" is "when our users can use other instances but their users aren't allowed here"
Jun 15, 2023 at 10:19amWeb
Show threadbdonvrJun 15, 2023

I don't see any problem with that. They want their own little community.

Then they could have that but still contribute to the wider "threadiverse".

Show threadsocialjusticewizardJun 15, 2023
This keeps coming up but like... So? If beehaw users are putting good content up on a sh.itjust.works community, and making good replies and stuff, who cares if I can't go do the same on their semiprivate instance? I'm just happy to have the user.