I noticed that when I attempt to subscribe to beehaw subs, it seems to be stuck on pending. This has been the case for a couple hours now. Is this expected behavior? I think I read somewhere that beehaw was defederating. Perhaps this is the reason it’s not working?

  • Casmael@u.fail
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    Yeah I don’t understand how it works, but this seems like a really silly time to start splitting off tbh. Which instance are y’all signed up to?

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      Beehaw’s purpose is to have a place to have certain discussions in an environment that is conducive to those discussions. To build that environment, they have a user application process for new users. That was working well for them. However, lemmy.world allows anyone to sign up without screening. The result was that people were able to bypass Beehaw’s screening process to damage their environment.

      To put into perspective, imagine you’re trying to run a support group for civilian refugees of Ukraine. You create an application process to screen out anyone that would like to sabotage that environment. However, the room also has a window to an adjacent room, and that adjacent room is open to the public. Russian military then use access to that room to taunt the people attending the support group with pictures of dead Ukrainians, not only effectively ruining the purpose of the group, but making the group members’ lives worse.

      What Beehaw did was concrete up the window until they can figure out how to better protect their group members from people that want to damage their environment.

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        It seems unrealistic that a team of 4 people are going to be able to screen the potential flood of new users.

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          Entirely. I have no idea what the solution is. I think what Beehaw is doing is trying to prevent further damage while they come up with solutions that will work when federated with the rest of the instances.

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        exactly this

        which is why I can’t understand why people are so angry and almost offended about this

        Like this isn’t slandering all of Lemmy.world

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        But that’s the whole point of federation. Why don’t they just defederate from the entire network and just have a private instance?

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          Because they don’t want to; again, this is temporary while they get their bearings and figure out a better way to screen and moderate bad actors (and hoping that Lemmy.world does the same)

      • 💡dim@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        yeh, its unfortunate the moderation logs are public and so you can see that beehaw only banned like 2 people that i can see from .world

    • User Deleted@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I have 3 accounts. Main is on lemmy.dbzer0.com, alts are on lemmy.fmhy.com and reddthat.com. So far, only the extremist lemmygrad.ml is defederated by the instances I use (the major lemmy instances has defederatedlemmygrad.ml). No major instances has defederated any of the instances I use. I can interact eith beehaw.com just fine. However, subscribing to beehaw and lemmy.ml communities show “subscription pending” although they haven’t defederated my instance.