And from lemmy.world?

    • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      302·
      3 months ago

      I’m a little surprised they are even still going. I guess staying small really was a goal.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
      91·
      3 months ago

      I’m surprised they haven’t re-federated by now. I kind of got the impression it would be temporary during the main Reddit migration but I guess not. I really like the beehaw community but it definitely seems inconvenient to not be able to access all of those bigger communities on world and shjw.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        41·
        3 months ago

        I have noticed that a lot of the most irritating and vocal reactionaries come from those two instances, and it’s not improving much. It makes sense - this is an alternative to reddit and the people most likely to leave reddit will include a large number of people who get banned a lot.

        If they’re reactionaries, they’re not going to have many instances that are for them specifically - because those instances get defedded - so they will tend to go for the open instances. So those instances get a lot of the worst people.

        And if their goal is growth at the expense of quality, then they won’t fix it. They’ll just get worse. The reasons beehaw defederated haven’t changed.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    36·
    3 months ago

    Been a while, but as far as I can recall, SJW and LW are the two largest instances and the decision was due to limitations with Lemmy’s moderation tools and wanting to provide a safe space for their userbase (the latter being their primary mission). BH doesn’t have a huge admin/mod team, so they chose to limit federation with some of the larger instances. I also think I remember reading that federation was never really Beehaw’s goal and is more a side effect of the platform (Lemmy) they chose to run for their project.

    May be a bit fuzzy on the details, but I believe that’s the gist of it.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
          131·
          3 months ago

          As did I…and then in trying to figure out my confusion I figured it out! See, I have experience being confused…

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    20·
    3 months ago

    im sure you can find more info on beehaw, but really they just wanted to avoid a metric tonne of negative influencing (political or otherwise) and drama.

      • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
        13·
        3 months ago

        that is a great question.

        part of what pushed me into running a public instance was their closed stance. i appreciated their genial camaraderie, but i dont like being closed off.

        • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          It’s interesting how the most open instances aren’t the biggest ones with no user restrictions, but the smaller instances that no one has issues with. I moved away from LW because of performance issues, but I’m happy to be able to see both LW posts and BH posts. Sopuli has defederated from some instances, but I’m happy with their choices so it’s as unrestricted as I want it to be. Others would choose an even less restrictive/restricted small instance, or like yourself just run your own to have complete freedom.

  • walden@sub.wetshaving.socialEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    I wonder why they are still on 0.18.4. The latest Lemmy version is 0.19.5 and it has some nice features compared to 0.18.x.

    • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Last I heard they want to switch to another platform, and don’t consider it worth upgrading to 0.19 because they’re leaving soon so it wouldn’t be worth the hassle.

      This is pure guesswork on my part, but they could be waiting for Sublinks (a Lemmy-compatible backend) to get up to speed before switching to that. They say that the new platform is “compatible with all Lemmy apps”, and Sublinks is the only project I know of that fits that criteria.

    • Elevator7009@kbin.run
      8·
      3 months ago

      Not sure them just defederating to stay small and to be able to handle all the reports, if I recall correctly, is the same thing as making arbitrary decisions in order to feel powerful.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      319·
      3 months ago

      So you’re saying it would be fun to show up on beehaw, flip everyone the finger, and leave.