I just found out about this and it's very disheartening. I can see trolls being a valid problem but the solution is more mods. What beehaw did is very detrimental to the health of the fediverse, especially in the most crucial month. With two of the largest instances split from each other, it'll be twice as hard to grow a critical mass of content.
I'm blocking all beehaw communities myself. I don't want to contribute to a instance where the admins are selfish.
it’ll be twice as hard to grow a critical mass of content.
According to lemmy explorer, if you sort both by number of users and by active users, lemmy.world and lemmy.ml are the 2 biggest servers by a good amount.
Beehaw is 3rd, other servers are behind but many of them are still pretty new.
Even if Beehaw decides to stay on their own, there's more than enough "critical mass" to keep an healthy flow of content.
With two of the largest instances split from each other
They're not, there's no block between lemmy.world and lemmy.ml.
What beehaw did is very detrimental to the health of the fediverse, especially in the most crucial month.
I don't blame them though. They are running a really specific community with it's own culture and it ended up getting disrupted and diluted by the influx of new users.
In a month everything will calm down and I hope they refederate again.
What about for people like me who are on a whole other instance (I'm on Rammy). We are federated with everybody, both Beehaw and Lemmy.World. if somebody from Lemmy.World posts on Beehaw, does that mean I still can't see it?
We can still do that. However, the “true” version of those communities are the ones on beehaw, so our posts will not be shared to other instances via ActivityPub.
If you alternatively create your post on Rammy and Beeaw and Lemmy.world users reply, it’s Beehaw who suffers the most in that situation because they don’t see any content from lemmy.world users while all other instances see everything. You can read a specific example in that link under third instance communities.
I don't. The answer is for beehaw to bring on more admins and work through the increase of traffic.
Just as lemmy is catching on, beehaw throws a wrench in things and makes the experience worse and more confusing for people. It's self centered and selfish. It's not thinking about what's best for lemmy as a whole.
Yeah, I left Beehaw. I understand what they're trying to do, but I think they shouldn't have tried to grow so much if they were intent on being such a walled garden. There was so much conversation on Reddit for people to come to Beehaw, and now the rug gets pulled out.
Could this be a temporary measure on their part until Lemmy adds better moderation tools or they can recruit more moderators to keep some sort of positive control?
This is why I think having your own instance is smart. I've been using each platform as "islands".
Each instance has it's own tab in my browser, and I exclusively sort by local. When I want to chime in, I reply to posts using Mastadon. Pretty easy if you don't mind copy pasting links.