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To me the whole situation is a "they bit off more than they could chew" kind of thing so you pull the nuclear option.. Honestly I'm avoiding subscribing to any beehaw communities because I won't be able to see any posts made from one of the most populous instances, hence diminishing their value. As a general user I would avoid signing up for beehaw as well for the same reasons.
By starting a Lemmy instance a year and a half before Rexxit? I never saw them claim to want to be the next Reddit. The Fediverse had an influx of users and Lemmy doesn’t currently have the mod or admin tools to deal with that situation gracefully. My understanding is that most of the bad actors were external to Beehaw.
They didn’t bite off anything, shit was being shoved into their mouth so they closed it.
Personally, I’m using my very own Lemmy instance so that I can choose who I federate with (including Beehaw). I totally understand why some folks might want to have their home instance elsewhere, and it’s cool that federation gives us that ability.
By not being prepared for it. It was setup with default communities, like technology for example (correct me if I'm wrong), but no plan to deal with those with moderation capabilities and levels that reach their own standard. To me it's only making the entire experience untrustworthy and stunted. Somehow lemmy.world and others can deal with it without defederating others so that's where I'll go.
i mean... yeah? it's not every day you suddenly have 5x the number of total users on your site visiting the site per minute because a major corporation just did something extremely unpopular with no forewarning. if we had that kind of clairvoyance, i'd be a millionaire and running this site would just be my full-time job. this strikes me as an irrational critique informed by the hindsight you have now, weeks after it began.
this is primarily because they have more permissive rules and no defined ethos they're trying to upkeep—or at least, they don't have the latter in a way that requires constant maintenance. (as a point of note last i checked, lemmy.world didn't even have listed rules, per se,[^1] so it'd be hard to parse what's even not allowed as a user besides "actively illegal content") we, by contrast, have a very clear idea of what we want—we spent a year thinking about it, and we're at a year and a half of making it reality—so defederation in the absence of better mod tools is an extremely obvious way to maintain that. actually it's the only tool we have in a lot of cases, which is a gripe we have with Lemmy that we're trying to solve
[^1]: although Ruud has told us he'll moderate hate speech, bigotry, etc. from the top, so implicitly those aren't supposed to be allowed. i question how viable doing this is with such an open-registration policy, more-or-less unvetted mods, and lots of communities to keep track of but i suppose all instances here can be thought of as large-scale experiments right now
Every time I start a new project my first thought is obviously "how would this scale to hundreds of thousands of people?" (I tried breadmaking over the pandemic help)