AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦Jun 17, 2023

domination is inevitable

https://lemmy.world/post/221975

domination is inevitable - Lemmy.world

We are now at 28.5K users (see https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list [https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list]). The top 10 instances also got a decent boost in user count. With the exception of beehaw.org [http://beehaw.org] which defederated, the Fediverse is thriving 🔥

Show threadThepinyaromaJun 17, 2023
Funny thing for me, is that Beehaw was the first bit of the Fediverse I ever came across. Tried to sign up, twice, didn't work. So that's how I ended up on .world, the first group I found that didn't want an essay to sign up.
Show threaderic5949Jun 17, 2023
I was on beehaw until they defederated, just seemed like the wrong answer to me and one that will just end up being damaging to Lemmy, especially the way they went about it.
Show threadbirdbirdJun 17, 2023
Defederation is kind of a core concept of Lemmy isn’t it?
Show threaderic5949
Well if I didn't understand that I'd not be on this instance now. I just didn't like how they did it with 0 warning when those instances were increasingly a big part of my Lemmy experience, and they could have just asked for people to volunteer as mods.
Jun 17, 2023 at 3:04pmWeb
Show threadKichaeJun 18, 2023

But if you're not on their site, they're not responsible to you. They are responsible to their local community.

They maybe could have spared your admin the courtesy of a "if you can't control this right now, we'll have to defederate" email or something, but if the tools aren't there to keep up, they're not there.