Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts.

Edit: A lot of people are asking why Beehaw did this. I want to keep this post informational and not color it with my personal opinion. I am adding a link to the Beehaw announcement if you are interested in reading it, you can form your own views. https://beehaw.org/post/567170

  • Kayn@dormi.zoneEnglish
    142·
    1 year ago

    It’s important to remember that federation is just a feature in the end. As an instance administrator, you’re absolutely free to choose who to federate with.

    I don’t see anyone giving Hexbear any shit for not federating with anybody.

      • SwallowsDick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        106·
        1 year ago

        But they’re rightfully salty if Beehaw defederating themselves deprives this platform of a big chunk of content and users, especially during this month

        • Thunder_Caulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          1 year ago

          That’s the thing. If someone defederates with you, and you wand a community on that instance. Then you are free to make the lost community in your instance. And if re-federation happens, both community can co exist without problems.

          Also you can make an account on the instance that defederated. So you still can view the community you want.

        • crazycanadianloon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          So I don’t understand your mentality here. What do the people hosting servers as a hobby owe former R3dd!t users to make their migration easier??? Seems entitled to think people who are literally paying out of their own pockets right now for people like us to talk to each other owe us even more. Geez.