It's funny to me how people who call themselves anti-authoritarian are some of the most eager to shut out dissenting voices
It makes sense once you realize that “authoritarian” is just a pejorative for “bad person I don’t like” - outside of that it means absolutely nothing
I'm absolutely convinced beehaw is a :fedposting: echo chamber, trying to corral redditors into another bubble before they get any wild ideas of their own
If that's true, they're making fairly dumb decisions when they defederate from liberal-leaning instances full of new arrivals from reddit.
One of the best things about Federation is that communities can do exactly that. They can shut themselves off from whatever they like and have their own little website just to themselves. In this case it's dork-ass libs and they will not be missed.
There is also something to be said about slowing growth so it stays manageable.
And like, we aren't gonna federate with those sites.
honestly, I think lemmy is probably their best option for having a reddit like site without having to develop it themselves, Kbin is weird and tries too hard to integrate mastodon imo, although I don't know why they don't just turn federation off entirely at this point
kbin is written in PHP and Lemmy is written in rust. The decision makes itself
I've seen others say that, but I know almost nothing about coding languages so I didnt want to comment on it lol
php is one of the most widely deployed scripting languages for websites. It used to suck a lot and still kinda does. You can write good code in it but anyone who isn’t monolingual in php would be insane to do it.
Rust is a new, largely still developing language that has some let’s say unconventional priorities. It’s used less than php by a significant margin but people who like it like it a lot and want you to know that. It generally runs faster than php because it wasn’t made to commit the horrible sin of mixing html with imperative code.
the horrible sin of mixing html with imperative code.
I definitely know what this means :trump-anguish:
Don’t worry about it. Just trust me it’s bad and if you do it I will hate you.
...it wasn’t made to commit the horrible sin of mixing html with imperative code.
Like react?
Idk if that’s meant to be a gotcha but yes. JSX is trash and people who like it are the same dorks who would have been writing shitty Wordpress plugins 20 years ago.
I guess they didn't realize you could just whitelist instances instead of having some super cumbersome blacklist.
Lol, why would they defederate from lemmy.world? That's just a wannabe Reddit. This does make Lemmy more tolerable, since I don't have to see posts from those losers anymore.
I get that the Lemmy stuff is sort of relevant to us but I do wish it was in its own channel that I could unsubscribe from.
Defederating this defederating that unless defederating means removal of feds (possibly by defenestrating) then I really do not care.
unless defederating means removal of feds (possibly by defenestrating) then I really do not care.
:party-sicko:
I started a megathread in the dunk tank to contain posts there as best I can.
Yeah the beehaw people just seem completely incompetent in every way. They're legit like "these instances are too popular so we don't want to moderate it" like damn have you heard adding another couple of moderators?
Shits so silly
like damn have you heard adding another couple of moderators?
but i wanna control everything :powercry-2: those evil red fash tankies are subverting me
Live view of me living with all the drama incoming from federation :negative:
Beehaw can be completely defederated if they want, but they were claiming to only block because of "hate speech". Hopefully they cut the crap and just be honest about why
If we all go there and bully them they will cordon themselves off :sicko-pig:
I just realized beehaw's icons are all hexagons.
They're really our mortal enemies, aren't they?
I wonder how long until they defederate with lemmy.ml, because you just know it's coming. They don't like the "tankie" devs and it's not even the largest instance any more (and apparently they don't even care about defederating from large instances given this post), so there's no way they don't at some point
they have posted discussions about it, but at this point they are not so they can 1) keep access to all the comunities that are their, and 2) easy access to the devs and keep on not their bad side.
Beehaw seems to not want to federate
Finally something I agree with them on
It's true that those two instances do not require a signup statement as "proof of human" but they are pretty tame lib instances with some good communities IMO. Beehaw is of course allowed to defederate with whomever they want but it's fucking lol.
