YSK: If you're on Lemmy.World or Sh.itjust.works you should not subscribe to any Beehaw communities
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
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This isn't reddit 2.0. It's a different platform with different mechanics that hasn't had over a decade to mature.
Change is hard. People need to learn to adapt.
Right, but even non-reddit users would be confused by it. When everyone advertises lemmy as seamlessly integrating with all the different instances, it doesn't matter what instance your account is on, this definitely is not that.
It's a young platform experiencing unprecedented growth. There's going to be growing pains where misunderstandings and misinformation are bound to happen. We need to correct the misinformation and set proper expectations.
The ability for a server admin to choose what servers they federate with is a core concept of the fediverse and needs to be properly communicated.
The idea behind federation is, that individuals host their own instance and connect (federate) with others individual's instances.
But that's not easy for less tech savvy people.
Except you're not making a case for why they should rather than go to some other alternative once it pops up soon.
One of us is confused, I'm not sure which. I'm not "making a case" for anything. I stated a fact, "Lemmy != Reddit". It's a completely different platform, with different underlying technology, that can perform a similar task. Anyone who's representing it as a 1:1 reddit clone that you can just hop to with no effort to learn how it works, is misleading others.
I'm not trying to win any arguments nor convince anyone to stay. If another alternative pops up, try it, if you like it use it. If you like lemmy use it. Hell, use them both or use neither. That's the benefit of having choices.
Expectation management... people need to stop pitching this on Reddit as the new Reddit then.
Butโฆ It is essentially identical in design to Reddit apart from the decentralised concept.
Which is a massive change that tbh Iโm still not sold on.
Federation seems to cause more problems than it solves and itโs created so many fractured communities that itโs impossible to get involved in niche ones anymore.
Well, new Reddit might easily mean better but also diffderent Reddit. Also, I am not sure whether people actually call it a new Reddit. Most of the time I heard the destription was a Reddit alternative which by definition doesn't imply that it's identical or even better in all ways.
Butโฆ It is essentially identical in design to Reddit apart from the decentralised concept.