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"Beehaw has now defederated from 2 of the biggest/most active Lemmy instances" on Hexbear
www.hexbear.net"At this point, Beehaw seems to not want to federate. They defederated from Lemmy.world and shitjustworks. Both can be found on the join-lemmy page.
They have defederated from the most communities at like 352 lol. Shitjustworks and Lemmy World don't even have that much of a culture difference with Beehaw from what I see.
Shitjustworks also bans lemmygrad. Lemmyworld hasn't tho (and honestly might not, it's been 2 weeks and nothing has happened on that front)
Essentially, they don't like their open registration policy and the increase in users... I have never seen such an argument before but lol.
If I am not mistaken Lemmy.world is the community with the most active users and 2nd amount of total users (behind Lemmy.ml). Idk the numbers behind shitjustworks but it was near the top.
I can't confirm the exact numbers since the tools to verify user count are down atm.
For more info here is the Beehaw post :
https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Even the Libs at kbin don't have the best words https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/22329/Beehaw-defederating-from-lemmy-world-and-sh-itjust-works"
They’re inhaling lethal amounts of copium in the comments of the original beehaw thread.
“thE aBilItY fOr instANCES To dEFedErate Is THe PoinT ActUaLLy”
Yes, but that beats the whole essence of the “everyone’s connected and can connect to anyone” fediverse selling point.
The solution is simple. You don’t like a community? Block it. You don’t like a user? Block him/her. Defederating is not the solution and beats the whole point of having a fediverse.
I’m currently juggling with 5 accounts because of this very reason. I had another reason to do so on reddit (multiple personalities, lol), but if you ask me, this reason is just stupid 😒.