mccJun 23, 2023

I would like to tell you about LEMMY aka KBIN which is the new "the Mastodon version of Reddit" federated service. I think it's PRETTY NEAT.

First, let me tell you how to get Into Lemmy:

Just go to this website
https://beehaw.org/
and start reading.

That's it! A nice thing about Lemmy is you don't *really* need to be logged in to use it. Since the focus is communities rather than personal feeds you can just click around logged out until you want to comment.

What if you want to comment?

Beehaw - Aspiring to be(e) a safe, friendly and diverse place.

Lemmy

Show threadEvan MintoJun 23, 2023
@mcc isn't there some defederation controversy with beehaw? I can't keep track of all of it but it sounded like Beehaw is cut off from a lot of other instances
Show threadmcc
@VamptVo I haven't heard that. What I heard was a defederation controversy with "shitjustworks"
Jun 23, 2023 at 8:59pmWeb
Show threadmccJun 23, 2023
@VamptVo Perhaps what you heard was Beehaw was defederating *from* other instances? They seemed like resonable defederations honestly
Show threadEvan MintoJun 23, 2023
@mcc That might be it, I honestly don't have energy to track which instances have issues with which other ones
Show threadH. MontgomeryJun 23, 2023
@VamptVo @mcc beehaw defederated from two enormous instances because those instances had open registration, and more trolling than the admin team could handle was pouring in. Some folks were upset because those instances had some popular communites & lots of normal users, and beehaw itself is popular. They’ve also defederated recently from a bunch of servers that have had an influx of bot accounts. You can find the reasoning in beehaw’s support community if you’re curious.
Show threadEvan MintoJun 23, 2023
@halfflat @mcc Thanks for the explanation!