More people need to understand this. “Defederate” is a big scary word, and carries the negative connotations of “cutting contact because I don’t want anything to do with you people.” But in this case it’s not that at all, it’s more of a “we’re overgrown and want to prioritize quality over size, so while moderation stuff’s in development, we’re just gonna isolate in our little paradise for a while.” Which is fine. That’s the purpose of decentralisation - the community chooses what to do with itself.
Wanna be a positive, high-quality, highly moderated group kinda separate from the rest? You can do that (beehaw).
Wanna be a bunch of tankies circle jerking over pictures of Stalin? Sure Everyone will defederate from you and call you weird… But you can do that too! (Lemmygrad)
And wanna keep more of the traditional “Reddit” feel from before they got money-crazed and feel apart? Join Lemmy world (even though beehaw keeps their distance for now).
Defederation isn’t a weapon - it’s a tool.
And for me? I’m just sitting here on pawb.social, with reddit’s furry haters finally gone, watching both Lemmy.world and beehaw … And everything else because we don’t defederate much. (Except Lemmygrad. We’ll defederate that. Wouldn’t touch that with a 20 metre pole…)
More people need to understand this. “Defederate” is a big scary word, and carries the negative connotations of “cutting contact because I don’t want anything to do with you people.” But in this case it’s not that at all, it’s more of a “we’re overgrown and want to prioritize quality over size, so while moderation stuff’s in development, we’re just gonna isolate in our little paradise for a while.” Which is fine. That’s the purpose of decentralisation - the community chooses what to do with itself.
Wanna be a positive, high-quality, highly moderated group kinda separate from the rest? You can do that (beehaw).
Wanna be a bunch of tankies circle jerking over pictures of Stalin? Sure Everyone will defederate from you and call you weird… But you can do that too! (Lemmygrad)
And wanna keep more of the traditional “Reddit” feel from before they got money-crazed and feel apart? Join Lemmy world (even though beehaw keeps their distance for now).
Defederation isn’t a weapon - it’s a tool.
And for me? I’m just sitting here on pawb.social, with reddit’s furry haters finally gone, watching both Lemmy.world and beehaw … And everything else because we don’t defederate much. (Except Lemmygrad. We’ll defederate that. Wouldn’t touch that with a 20 metre pole…)