What defederating would mean:

  • We won’t see beehaw.org posts/comments on other instances.

Pros:

  • There is less confusion, you can’t respond to a beehaw.org user, thinking they will be able to see your response when in reality they cannot.

Cons:

  • We won’t be able to see any beehaw.org comments/posts on other instances, so we will miss out on some comment threads and posts. It could be good to be able to see them and interact with the other users there even though beehaw.org users won’t see any of our content.

Summary

Overall, I think it is better not to defederate, but simply unsubscribe from all of their communities (and as we no longer get posts from their instance, with time these will cease to appear on our ‘front page’).

beehaw.org users already can’t see our posts/comments anywhere so it’s not like defederating would change their experience in any way, so it wouldn’t really be retaliation and would just limit the content available to lemmy.world users.

What do you think?

  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 years ago

    Tbh, that’s kinda hard to believe. I have seen zero malicious activity in my 4 days here. Maybe their standards are just higher than mine, not sure that’s a good thing in this case but whatever. Damn that sucks, beehaw had some good stuff.

        • GONADS125@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 years ago

          Exactly. Relevant discussion has continued to decline and be suppressed by stupid memes and puns. Can barely find any relevant discussion in comments anymore.

          On reddit, it wouldn’t be unusual that someone would talk shit to me for having a thought-out, long reply to someone.

          It feels like 60% of the users are pissy teenagers spreading anti-intellectualism and another 30% are bots. Aside from a specific few niche subreddits, I don’t miss reddit at all…

          • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 years ago

            One sub I was subbed to literally turned into memes, where even the comments were just links to memes and people carrying out full length discussions that way.

            I sort of missed the meme culture period. And I always enjoyed writing, so it’s pretty nice here.

            I went and checked reddit for first time today since the 11th and I left right away.

      • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
        22·
        2 years ago

        Sigh.

        Who tf comes online just to troll “beehaw” some obscure instance on an obscure platform? That’s crazy to me lol.

        • CarbonIceDragon
          13·
          2 years ago

          I mean, there are trolls on Reddit to be fair, it’s not terribly surprising that if a lot of Reddit users move to some place, a bunch of trolls will come with, either because they too don’t like reddit’s changes, or because they see new communities to mess with. And I can imagine that, if someone is a troll and gets enjoyment out of bothering people and causing anger, that a community that is pretty restrictive in it’s rules and tries to maintain a “calm” and “safe” sort of vibe is probably going to be a more satisfying target?

          Beyond that, I do think I recall seeing one of the beehaw admins saying something about not wanting theirs to be the place all the redditors move to, because they don’t want keeping the community run and moderated to be a full time thing and because they want quality over quantity, in terms of their community. If they feel like they’re reaching the limit of how big a community they can comfortably handle and dont want it getting much bigger, then a controversial move like this that might lose them some users isn’t going to be a problem for them.

          I’m not saying I like this move, I don’t personally have any real stake in it obviously not being hosted on either instance involved but I worry that fragmentation like this while people are starting to really look into the platform as a whole isn’t a great look for lemmy, -but I do get where they are coming from.

        • GONADS125@lemmy.world
          61·
          2 years ago

          Alt-righters and 4-chan users. They often feel justified thru their delusions and rationalizations.

    • Lols@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      from what i understand you will still be able to see their content, they just wont be able to see content from lemmy.world or shitjustworks