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 think lemmy.world is the most viable
Lemmy.world seems to be the largest Lemmy instance, and they still have not succumbed to the onslaught of "ban lemmygrad on principle" liberals. I mean, I have absolutely no reason to trust the admins, but they haven't done it yet even when communities I'd expect to be much more alert to this red scare shit (like blahaj.zone 😢) have.
One of the biggest tells is when an instance bans Lemmygrad.ml (for being MLs) and doesn't ban Lemmygrad[.]com (for being right-deveationist "MAGA communists" typo-squatting on another community)
But we all already knew that liberals were ill-equipped to moderate leftist discourse.
They have like 150 users/month, I would imagine people just don't know they exist.
For ordinary users, fair. But I expect the people who are operating the network to have a slightly better idea of what is going on. What's happening is we have a bunch of day-one transplants showing up telling the people who have been on Lemmy/Fedi for three years what the problems are.
I've been in touch with Ruud and his philosophy seems to be "if they aren't breaking rules, we will not act against them". They've only hit places for hatespeech.
I'm trying to figure out what their relationship is going to be with community operators. The same relationship as admins to moderators on reddit or not? Have put this question to them as I have a number of subreddits that could funnel users over.
lemmy.world hasn’t defederated from lemmygrad but individual lemmy.world communities will still ban individual users for defending socialist states
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They haven't defederated with Lemmygrad, but they've blocked the GenZedong community. If you go to lemmy.world, click on the Communities tab and search for GenZedong, it won't show up at all. Since that's by far the most active comm on Lemmygrad, that's almost the same as defederating, but done in a cowardly lib way where're technically not doing it.