My first account on the fediverse was on Beehaw and I was happy with it, but defederating from two of the largest instances gave me a reason to find a new instance. Personally I understand and respect the decision -that is the point of the fediverse afterall.

They had a lot of good communities that will not be cut off from the fastest growing instances which will make things tough to rebuild I think.

  • sunaurus@lemm.eeMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hopefully, we can get some better mod tools into Lemmy soon, which will result in even instances like Beehaw not having to worry about federating with big instances.

    I think the main current outcome of decision will be that Lemmy users will be hesitant to start any bigger communities on beehaw.org, but this is probably a positive outcome for Beehaw admins in terms of what their goals are. Users can’t create communities on Beehaw anyway, so this point is moot.

    As for what this means for lemm.ee: based on their reasoning in the post, I think it’s entirely possible that they will keep defederating instances which grow beyond a certain point, and lemm.ee might reach that size soon as well. So I would recommend keeping this in mind while you plan where to house your communities etc - if you’re interested in what Beehaw has to offer, then it might be best to preemptively go directly to them, and conversely, if you’re more interested in the wider federated network, then building communities on instances such as lemm.ee would be the safer bet.

    Edit: I posted a comment asking if beehaw.org might defederate lemm.ee in the future if we grow more, their response for now was that they doubt it.

    • Jenga@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That response to your comment is good news. Ultimately, it sounds like Beehaw is open to refederating if they get access to better mod tools and/or those other instances institute similar measures to lemm.ee.

    • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think it’s entirely possible that they will keep defederating instances which grow beyond a certain point, and lemm.ee might reach that size soon as well.

      isn’t lemmy.world like… 20x our instance?

      • sunaurus@lemm.eeMEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yep, and one scenario is for sure that growth will slow down. But on the other hand, if growth continues at the current place, then in 2-3 months, lemm.ee will be just as big as lemmy.world is today.

        And there is also the potential scenario that growth will actually speed up - who knows what will happen when 3rd party Reddit apps start shutting down, for example.

        • TexMexBazooka@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Hey Sunaurus, I’m just throwing my hat in the ring that I’d be happy to contribute to any additional moderation efforts that may be necessary to keep lemm.ee reputable in the eyes of the broader fediverse; I work in IT from home so I spend quite a bit of time available at the computer if yaknow what I’m sayin