If you care about this and have the time, just start grabbing links from hexbear or reddit or your bookmarks and post them to appropriate non-beehaw communities.
Beehaw is a large, active, “no tankies allowed” lemmy instance that has suspiciously defederated from much of the rest of the fediverse, including its largest competitors lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.
This potentially threatens the lemmyverse as a system. If Beehaw gains a critical mass of the active lemmy userbase, and continues to defederate from its competitors, it could cause a vicious cycle where everyone goes to Beehaw because “that’s where everyone is.” Alternatively, Beehaw could use the threat of defederation to backseat-moderate other instances and enforce Beehaw politics outside of Beehaw. Either way, federation is defeated if Beehaw gets big enough.
*Lemmy.world is like twice as active as beehaw rn, I think beehaw fucked themselves over with their vetting process
I thought most of the Lemmyverse that wasn't Beehaw was, you know, us.
Also we aren't really "in" it since we aren't federated.
Nah. We’re in the running but there’s a handful that are a fair bit larger
This was true up until a few weeks ago. Now the total Lemmy userbase has increased by 1600% and is only about to increase further with Apollo fully shut down. We are probably around 4th or 5th now.