I thought I understood, but I still have Beehaw content in my feed, so I guess I don’t understand after all… Can someone dumb it down for me?
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I think this post explains it pretty well.
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You have Beehaw content that was synced before they defederated.
Federation isn’t accessing remote content on remote instances, it’s content mirroring. So, anything that was mirrored before Beehaw defederated will stay exactly where it is. You just won’t see any updates to it.
At least, not from Beehaw.
It’s weird because I still see posts from the News@beehaw in my feed.
Source: https://lemmy.world/post/168259
Basically we can post new content, but only people on lemmy.world can see it. It doesn’t get sent to any other instance. Any old posts will still be there but any new interactions will not get sent outside of lemmy.world.
Lemmy.world still has all the content it pulled from beehaw before they defederated, but they won’t sync anymore, so you won’t see new beehaw updates, and they won’t see any updates from lemmy.world
Was there a reason why they defederated??
So when an instance is blocked, it means users on the blocked instance will no longer be able to see that instance’s content. For example, beehaw.org has now blocked lemmy.world. However with the way federation works, the content from beehaw is cached on lemmy.world servers. So you can only see what has already been cached; there will be no updated content on any existing cache.
Edit: here’s a recent post from kbin.social going into further detail on how federation works.
Wrong.beehaw blocked lemmy.world. lemmy.world has not blocked beehaw. lemmy.world will continue to get content from beehaw. beehaw has stopped all content from lemmy.world from comming to beehaw.lemmy.world accounts can still see new post and comments from beehaw but no comments will be responded to by behaw users because they cannot see lemmy.world post or ocmments.nvm looks like their content did stop coming through.
We don’t get posts from their instance, only those that are posted by lemmy.world users, and those posts are also exclusivly ours.
Hmm, maybe your right. I’ll add a edit.
participate the effort to create an alternative to Reddit people leave Reddit to join the alternative be unable to handle the influx of people trying to use the alternative to a website with millions of users
Their reasons are much more selfish than that. They insist on only having 4 moderators while never scaling up, and they don’t like how federation allows users from other instances to post on their instance because it disrupts their rigid ideal community vibe. According to their suggestions on “improving moderation tooling”, the ideal federation setup is that their users can post on other instances, but other instances’ users can’t post on theirs, so they can save time on moderation work. The moderation work of other instance admins for their users doesn’t matter, clearly.
I read their post explaining the decision, but it seems like it is at odds with itself. If your goal is to create a safe space, why are you using a federated service? I understand you have the option to defederate, but at that point why didn’t you just setup a standalone message board. It just feels that their use case doesn’t fit the system.
Isn’t this like… the whole point of the Federated Universe? The mods do Beehaw want their server to be a “safe space”. They’re perfectly within their rights to restrict who can post in their own community. But you, the user, are not in any way beholden to their whims, and can make an account on any other Lemmy instance, or create your own and make it as restricted or unrestricted as you please.
It seems logical to me that the creators of a safe space for marginalized communities would restrict their community from the internet at large because people on the Internet feel emboldened by anonymity to attack others.
Yes, the point of the Fediverse is that everyone is free to associate with groups they choose. There is nothing wrong with creating instances that are very isolated. What Beehaw wants with the “improving moderation tooling”, however, is a safe space where the network is restricted from them, but they still have full access to the rest of the network. That suggestion is what I was calling selfish, because this way their users would be parasiting off the content and moderation of other instances while giving nothing back.
The community vibe is definitely a huge motivation. They want to be able to control the sort of people on their instance which they can’t do if the mass user bases from lemmy.world etc. that are (relatively) neutral have access. It’s a shame because they had some good communities established.
Yeah, I don’t believe for one second that those 4 admins have actually, meaningfully, personally vetted 11,000+ users. People have posted (sorry, I dont have the link) here that they just filled the “application” out with nonsense and still got approved.
Yeah, I don’t believe for one second that those 4 admins have actually, meaningfully, personally vetted 11,000+ users.
So, if they are struggling the moderate a community with 11,000+ users, it would make sense for them to limit an even large number of external users for the time being until they feel they have things better in control, correct?
That’s not what I’m commenting on, but yeah, naturally. It’s their instance, they can do what they want.
On reddit you could get banned from many subs for posting in a sub that its moderators didn’t like. And in the fediverse it’s exactly the same. So what’s the point? I’m here, because I hoped that it won’t be like reddit.
That’s just the nature of any site that allows community moderation. If you’re looking for something different, try fark.com
So for those who know this better, should Lemmy Kbin users look for alternative to these communities (games/gaming for me)
I don’t believe any kbin instances have been de-federated by beehaw…
Yeah, but if people were intentionally being trolls, it stands to reason that they’ll hop on the next available open registration site and begin their shenanigans there, getting us banned too.
From what I’ve seen, for the most part the KBin magazines have been great, but we’ve definitely got a few people that I’ve seen that might intentionally start harassing trans people for instance and if they make lives difficult for the beehaw mods, we might get banned too just by association.
Open signups aren’t novel on the fediverse, lots of places have them. The problem is having them without following up and banning problematic users… but yes I expect that if stricter instance-wide moderation doesn’t happen this instance will end up being defederated by most of the fediverse (with mastodon at least that seems to be the norm).
I’m hoping moderation has been been lacking because Ernest is just overwhelmed with the amount of load, and that it is fixed soon, if not I’ll end up moving on once admins start defederating it (probably to another kbin instance).
