• PuffinMcGuffin@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Can you (or anyone else) explain the circumstances around them defederating? More specifically, why would they do that, and what exactly is their benefit?

    • XEL@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      .world doesn’t require as stringent verification and beehaw mods claimed that a lot of spam was coming from .world. I don’t know if that’s true, but that’s what they claimed.

      • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        Someone dug into the mod logs and found four or five instances of lemmy.world accounts being moderated on Beehaw. That’s all it took for them to defederate

        • DMmeYourNudes@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Beehaw will probably die if they want to defederate from any largr instance with open signups. This whole system won’t work without open signups because no one wants to go through an interview process to use a social media site. They’ll leave or just cave and go back to reddit.