Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts.

Edit: A lot of people are asking why Beehaw did this. I want to keep this post informational and not color it with my personal opinion. I am adding a link to the Beehaw announcement if you are interested in reading it, you can form your own views. https://beehaw.org/post/567170

    • Cubes@lemm.eeEnglish
      412·
      3 years ago

      At the time LW and SJW had few barriers to signing up, so they had a higher rate of spam coming in and the beehaw team said they couldn’t keep up with moderating it. No idea if this is still the case, but they remain federated.

        • Cubes@lemm.eeEnglish
          44·
          3 years ago

          I thought about that while typing it but I thought it was kinda funny so decided to leave it haha

          • 13igTymeEnglish
            212·
            3 years ago

            We need to replace dumb acronyms with better ones, anyway.

            • toborEnglish
              51·
              3 years ago

              Nah definitely not. I don’t know about the owner but there was definitely too much “debate” on whether to defederate from exploding heads for my liking, felt a little too “free speech-y” so I set up on lemmy.world instead