The short version is that beehaw was struggling with the (currently) limited toolset available to moderate user content, and they saw a heap of users posting things they don’t allow on their instance were coming from the two other big instances, so it was more effective for them to defederate to try and stem the tide.
I imagine regeneration will occur in future when the lemmyverse stabilises a little, and when better mod tools are available
Yeah that was excellent! Thanks for sharing! Have an uplemmy.
I imagine they are in damage control mode and are hoping to stem the outflow of users’ attention spans to the Lemmyverse while their current actions are the Current Thing.
I reckon they are budgeting for a 1-2 week martial law period to try and stabilise and will probably force open all the closed subs and make use of repost and chatGPT bots to simulate decent engagement, possibly even paying for comments too.
It would also be very interesting if they roll back on their censorship of open discussion of certain topics to attract back previously “resettled” users.
On a related note, the stranger things tie in mobile game was about 300x better than it had any right to be
The best revenge is living well.
Actually I misunderstood the solution and it doesn’t meet my needs. I wanted to block an entire instance as a user. I actually don’t really care much for the admins managing this for me…
Yep it’s a huge issue, and the inverse case where instance Y’s admins take a bung from some product manufacturer or agenda lobby and overnight the content moderation policy changes. There’s no point getting comfy with your account right now until user migration is lightweight, frictionless and doable after a ban, to reduce the cost to a user of a changing relationship with the admins of an instance.
It’s baffling how having a home instance makes you subject to the whims of the instance admins ref. banning your user across the lemmyverse or deciding what you will and won’t see by their Federation choices. It’s like, I despised Reddit for its blanket censorship and statistical-minority rule, and Lemmy has chosen to kind of replicate that?
I’d much rather my user profile and preferences, feed settings just be a lightweight, mobile or transient thing that can be moved around as the nature of each instance changes, with admins just housing an agreed number of users as part of the “cost” of being a Lemmy instance, and not having any pastoral role in their governance.
I work in a space adjacent to change management (ERP implementation) and honestly, be happy and kind. These questions are the absolute default ones of humans attempting to puzzle out a paradigm shift. And the fact they’re here and they’re feeling loved enough to actually ask for help with their new mental model of it is about eight degrees better than it could have been.
So my answer is: it’s just like r/games, r/gaming, r/videogames, r/patientgamers. They are all the same subject matter with overlapping content and userbases, with potentially wildly different moderation biases and groupthinks. And that was all on one centralised Reddit! You subbed to some, or all of them, as you saw fit, you maybe even managed a multireddit to group them! It’s just the same here except they’re on different instances and soon, enhancements to Lemmy pending, will be just as seamless to manage.
Thank you! Here is a Lemmy award I spent $2.50 on.
Edit: great username cob
Edit 2: actually I got overexcited. This is the solution to block a community. I would like to block an instance and not have to do proportional work the the number of communities they decide to start on their instance.
Very American to even segregate their internet spaces by skin colour.
Yeah there needs to be a little more user intent “modelling” (probably no more than just a quick sense check really) on some of the design decisions.
I was thinking about suggesting a “watched instance” status that would contribute to a feed that sits between “all” and “subscribed”, so if I find an instance say mytown.org, then I can get a Watched feed like All but just every community for my town. This would differ from All which would allow federated communities such as arguments@farawaytown.net to appear in the feed.
Hey mate, any recos for Aussie instances?
Whilst it’s all part of the fediverse experience, I think there needs to be a much lower friction workflow to migrate users, even if banned, to reduce the cost to a user of disagreements with mods that can’t be resolved harmoniously on an instance.
It desperately needs lower friction remote community subscribing and a user migration workflow between instances.
Since your account is tied to your instance, it’s best to find an instance whose rules gel with content you’re likely to post so you don’t get banned from your home instance. I struggled on Reddit because I’m not from the US and they censor a lot of opinions and terms that are common elsewhere which don’t fit their culture there. The upshot being you can get banned from the whole place.
Lemmy is a great chance to find a more global outlook actually, I’m super excited.
The History Guy has a few decent niche tech videos. I think he did one on the invention of screws which was kind of interesting.
Is the Boost dev aware of this?
Reddit was so American too, all the arguments and things seemed to be through their world view. The fediverse should allow much more diversity, and be a bit more multicultural