Comment on What does your 'home' instance really matter?
simple@lemm.ee 1 year agoIt’s because Beehaw defederated with most of the popular instances. Their communities still exist but none of the posts will come through to Lemmy World and vice versa, they can’t see any new posts in Lemmy World communities.
IMO just stick to lemmy world and avoid beehaw communities (they’re effectively dead for us) unless you want a “safe space” and live in the small Beehaw instance.
But I still see some posts at eg gaming@beehaw.org from lemmy.world. And comments and votes. But maybe 20% of what I see if I’m looking from my beehaw account.
Could these be crossposts and comments from non-beehaw users? Ie stuff that hasn’t originated at beehaw?
So basically anything posted in defederated communities won’t be federated. So someone on Lemmy World posting on Beehaw communities can only be seen by Lemmy World users and nobody else. Everyone should find alternative communities instead.
solidgrue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s a little harsh. I was here before beehaw defederated, and the content over there was high quality. Some bad actors spoiled it for everyone over here.
Hopefully they’ll be back once the mod tools for cross-instance content management improve.
No need to sneer at them, it was a community decision. You can still interact wth the content on most other instances than .world and .itjust.works
damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I think they were being a bit unreasonable in expecting everyone else to have verified sign-ups. It would be prohibitively difficult to verify all of the users especially with the recent influx.
If the other instances had tried that I think Lemmy would be dead on arrival. It would have taken so long to verify each user that most people would have got bored by the time they’re approval came through and would never have even bothered signing in.
DrQuint@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Honestly, it’s not that I find a reason in particular to dislike Beehaw users or their content, I just really got tired of weird philosophies regarding content discoverability and community sizes on Mastodon, and I can’t have that shit again. Hearing Beehaw start that mess again just makes me mentally check out and choose to ignore them.