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

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    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.