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

  • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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    1 year ago

    We have already lasted 3 years without even being federated. How about going outside and/or joining an org instead?

    This just strikes me as terminally online handwringing.

    Hate to break it to you but the vast majority of people in need of organizing, educating, and agitating, don't know what any of this shit is.

    I am begging you all to touch grass.