Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
BreadDog@kbin.social to 
Fediverse@kbin.social – 102 points – beehaw.org
Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances
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Certainly so. From a sort of... sociological point I'm wondering what the impacts are of major instances growing independent of each other. I feel like I can already feel it with kbin and lemmy both growing separately during the blackout. I'm wondering if the trend for major instances is going to be where each one has their own unique culture or if they will eventually homogenize.
Only real concern here, although I didn't participate during the mastodon surge last year, I heard that defederation became a bit of an issue with how common there. Granted, I feel like the impact is probably less here with the fact that you are interacting with topics rather than people.
I'm personally hoping for a unique culture, especially since we currently have quite a good one. Going solo is just going solo -- it's sad and kinda dumb, since it defeats the entire point of the fediverse, but if they're ok hanging out on a closed forum it's not like those haven't existed for decades.
I hadn't thought something like Mastodon would be able to defederate. Thinking about it, that would be far more disastrous for a platform aimed at following individuals to be able to do. The stress induced from having to choose an instance knowing they block other instances and being unable to even tell if that's a bad thing or not until you investigate each and every one anyway. Having to look up what your favorite people are on, if you're on Mastodon, so you can get news without leaving any of them out. What a mess.
They’re not going solo though. They are still connected to hundreds of other instances. Including Lemmy.ml, which is still the biggest instance.
Additionally, the Beehaw admins have said they're open to refederating with lemmy.world et al if/when Lemmy gets better moderation tools.
they defederated from Lemmy.world and the other one, that's it
they're not closing themselves off; they made it very clear what they were doing and why; people keep just catastrophizing about it over and over for some reason
like they made it clear what they were doing and that it wouldn't necessarily be permanent
Defederation is inevitable, it will happen on kbin once rules are established, however less harsh measures can also be applied https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/moderation/#limit-server
Lemmy specifically hasn't implemented less harsh measures yet. This is a stop-gap action to cut off a trolling problem at its source. The beehaw admins say they will reevaluate when less drastic tools are available, e.g. allow beehaw users to interact with lemmy.world but not the other way around.
I'm not sure I 100% agree, personally, but beehaw's ethos is "be(e) nice" and if trolls are trolling, it can make it very hard for some people to open up and contribute. So I see where it's coming from.
i think it really depends on the admin. I saw many threads on mastodon of hundreds of instances defederated with and listed reasons. some made sense, others did not.