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

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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    Beehaw could use the threat of defederation to backseat-moderate other instances and enforce Beehaw politics outside of Beehaw.

    maybe-later-kiddo "Match our content rules or we will defederate with you!!!"

    michael-laugh "Go right ahead! We literally don't care! You won't be missed at all! Wtf, are they even real, lmao"

    This is kind of a major point behind the concept of the fediverse: that you can have your own rules and nobody else can enforce theirs on your space...