Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances

  • spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I DO understand the problem. They only have an issue with an influx of users because they are the largest (defacto default) communities. A position that was incompatible with their moderation system from the get go. Had they had more sustainably sized communities none of this would have been an issue.

    • MassiveCelebration78@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The moderated, reasonable stance is that everyone is right! Beehaw probably could have done things differently, including making a stickied post that they donā€™t want to be the default large instance, and/or acquired a lot more mods to manage the federation of other large instances. On the other hand, Lemmy doesnā€™t have the same principles as Beehaw and prioritized the growth of their userbase over a filtering system. To you it looks like one is worse than the other, thatā€™s because you want to see content from everywhere and donā€™t share the principles of the other federation - so youā€™re probably not a good fit for Beehaw atm (and if anyone is blindsided, I donā€™t get itā€¦ I could see it written all over Beehaw that they are trying to promote certain principles over growth, I donā€™t share in those principles but I can respect that they were direct about it).

      Everyone on the Fediverse should expect to see instances un/re-federate several times over especially in the growing stages. The critique is fine but it should definitely be tempered with reasonable expectations and not unnecessary ridicule.

      The idea that people are missing content on Lemmy/Beehaw/Kbin instances that get defederated are looking at this from a ā€œthis should be super convenientā€ mentality which, convenience is why Reddit expects youā€™ll go back. Quality of content, genuine community-building, and/or responsible upper management doesnā€™t have as much value there, it is inherent in them being a VC, convenience is what matters most on Reddit/TikTok/Twitter/etc.

      On the Fediverse, the one thing that should be said more is that the instance you join, you should prepare to be involved locally through that instance more than anything else. The idea you can or should just join anywhere was something I wrong wrong about, as was much of the Reddit people saying ā€œjoin Lemmy it doesnā€™t matter where, itā€™s all federated.ā€ I donā€™t blame them or myself, itā€™s a newer concept and nuance is lost at the entry- level to anything. If people were coming to the Fediverse for fully federated, more convenient content than they should try Mastadon, because theyā€™re farther along and had their own issues to deal with during the Twitter migration that propelled them much like these instances that are still growing and learning will, in time.