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.

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.

Defederation is kind of a core concept of Lemmy isn’t it?

Yeah. People struggle with the idea of "independent websites" when you can view posts from them on other websites.

And when there isn't a hedge find backing them.

Are you originally from beehaw? I've seen you defending them many times and I almost always agree with your points. Keep up the good work 🫡

Nope. I've never actually directly been to the site.

I just stumbled into Mastodon last April to watch people flee Twitter, and fell in love with the whole distributed social concept.

The Internet was a digital anarchist space when I first encountered it in the 90s, and that's what I want it to be again. And the right to disengage is tied up in that.