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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Really? The tone in Beehaw is obvious yeah, but I thought the tone for kbin and lemmy was slightly similar -- unless things really changed in the few days when federation was down (which is possible)
I wasn't here before kbin's federation went down, but rather joined during that time with most everyone else. I do think the tone and "feel" between kbin and lemmy is similar for sure, and I think a lot of that is probably due to mutual ex-reddit culture. but while federation was down there was a lot of kbin users saying things like "it's a bit better like this because we build up a kbin culture, and understand things better" and "we can build up kbin communities so we're less reliant on other instances".
I think lemmy just ended up with the "everything reddit" culture, while kbin ended up with a more reserved technical reddit culture. Though that might just be my perspective (and not shared with others). But I can understand why beehaw defederated with lemmy and not kbin. even though it kinda feels like we're next lol.
Yeah, I do wonder if Beehaw is just block happy. I am scared of clicking on their list of banned instances (like if it's really shitty stuff that no sane human can look at), but they have blocked almost 400 instances.
They haven't blocked the main Lemmy one though. I'm guessing the main Lemmy instance has gotten better with the reddit migration.
What they did was the following : they defederated with Top 2 and Top 4 from what I understand (2 of the top 5).
For, reference Lemmy.ml has 35k users, Lemmy.world around 20-25k ish, shitjustworks 10k, beehaw 10k. Then theres a lot of small lemmy instances beehaw hasn't banned which go from a few hundred to a few thousand. The numbers might be slightly off since the user count tools are having issues on the lemmy side of things.
I feel like KBin is one of those "we only show our magazines by default, but if you're an advanced user or you want to explore the fediverse a bit more, we have that option too, and you can even subscribe to federated communities/magazines" type of sites in the fediverse.
nope. that was the case for a while, when the federation wasn't working right. but now it pretty openly shows threads from across the fediverse.