I noticed that when I attempt to subscribe to beehaw subs, it seems to be stuck on pending. This has been the case for a couple hours now. Is this expected behavior? I think I read somewhere that beehaw was defederating. Perhaps this is the reason it's not working?
In short, beehaw is having trouble moderating there communities, and defederated several of the biggest Lemmy instances just to cut down on moderation volume. It's was an incredibly short-sighted thing to do, and will make the lemmyverse a much more confusing place for the foreseeable future, but it's within their power to do.
Except I can see a new post from Beehaw. I'm having a conversation with somebody on a Beehaw community right now.
It seems the catch here may be that they are a Mastodon user. I guess Beehaw is still federated with their instance and so are we, so I can still see their content as if it were from Beehaw and we can comment to each other there!? But I guess if any Beehaw users join in, I'll not be able to see their comments and they'll not be able to see mine?
Oh my! I can imagine this will hurt bees more than the rest of us, because they will read discussions with some comments missing just because the commenter happened to be from lemmy.world or other blocked instances.
You can. It took me a day to be subscribed to [email protected], don't know if it's how it's supposed to be.
EDIT: okay just checked again, what I said was bullshit. I'm actually still on "subscribe pending" but I can see their threads on my timeline.
Wait, are both Lemmy world and Beehaw defederating? I thought it was just beehaw. If Lemmy world defederates, wouldn't that mean it will no longer see other federated platforms content. That kind of defeats the purpose of the reddit migration in my opinion.