Is there drama or a story I’m missing? As I understand it, from lemmy.world I can see their posts but they cannot see mine. Why did beehaw block lemmy.world?

  • mizu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    From what I understand, LW users were posting lower quality content after a huge amount of Reddit users flooded into it and the Beehaw admins were tired of it so they defederated.

    • Elkaki123@vlemmy.netEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      For anyone interested, they explained the reasoning behind this particular defederation here:

      https://docs.beehaw.org/docs/important-questions-decisions-and-reflections/on-defederation/

      At the end of the day beehaw wants to be tightly moderated and it’s kind of imposible to properly moderate huge amounts of users at the moment with their tools so they decided to ban big instances that don’t require any verification to join

    • lamermann@preserve.gamesOPEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Ah. Technically, could they re-federate with Lemmy.world whenever they want or does re-federation require some sort of approval from lemmy.world admins?

      • mysoulishome@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m hoping they will. I subscribed to some beehaw communities that look appealing. I chose Lemmy.world out of convenience and I also appreciate the dude behind it…once things settle it would be sad if they don’t allow any LW people because of a few shitposters.