is lemmy already fracturing so I can’t see stuff on beehaw? Doesn’t this kind of defeat the purpose?
I’d say it’s both a feature and a bug of the Fediverse!
Everyone is free to start their own server, just as everyone is free to splinter off. This means no central authority deciding what you can see and can’t see.
In the ideal state, there would be multiple servers with the same discussion topic (eg a few “news” communities would exist on beehaw, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml etc). Each of them will slowly take a different direction. This is already kinda happening on reddit (news, worldnews, neutralnews, etc), but here it should happen across servers.
Beehaw is a bit of a weird animal, they don’t like having so many users all at once because it leads to moderation issues. I think they should have just appointed more mods, but they decided on the last-resort option of splintering off temporarily. They really value having a small,close-knit community - they don’t allow people to start their own communities (the subreddit equivalent), downvotes aren’t allowed, etc, so discussion is only focused on a few main channels.
As a new user, i think it’s fine for you to be on lemmyworld! It has the largest variety of content here, although the pace of new content is still slow because lemmy has 1% of 1% of reddit’s userbase. Feel free to contribute!
The takeaway for now is, you can see beehaw posts but can’t really participate. I personally found it useful to block beehaw communities so I can see the activity elsewhere. The current default lemmy sort isn’t very good - I would try sorting by Hot or New.
Thanks for this explanation. I’m starting to understand this a bit more and more. I think once apps become more mature things will become better… I was spoiled by Apollo.
Long story short, Beehaw is a heavily moderated instance and said that Lemmy didn’t have strong moderation tools yet. So for the time being, they have defederated.
Best to unsubscribe from any Beehaw communities until they refederate. It’s not that things are fracturing, it’s that Beehaw has a certain set of ethos they want to maintain, and the lack of mod tools currently makes that impossible at the moment. There’s no bad blood between the instances.
Yeah i blocked all beehaw communities so they don’t show up for now - not out of bad blood or anything, but just so I don’t accidentally comment in a place where it wont be read.
Beehaw only has a very limited number of communities anyway, so i see this as a good way to build up the equivalent communities (news, tech etc) elsewhere.
The fediverse was always “fractured”, which is the whole point of it. Beehaw is a heavily moderated and with that censored instance. If you’re not a fan of that, then you just shouldn’t join Beehaw. Lemmy.world is still federated with the majority of instances, so is kbin and a lot of other big instances.
Wait so as I just moved here from Reddit… is lemmy already fracturing so I can’t see stuff on beehaw? Doesn’t this kind of defeat the purpose?
I’m so confused by all of this lol. So I can’t see beehaw stuff from lemmyworld? I thought the whole purpose was the ability to see that stuff.
I’d say it’s both a feature and a bug of the Fediverse!
Everyone is free to start their own server, just as everyone is free to splinter off. This means no central authority deciding what you can see and can’t see.
In the ideal state, there would be multiple servers with the same discussion topic (eg a few “news” communities would exist on beehaw, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml etc). Each of them will slowly take a different direction. This is already kinda happening on reddit (news, worldnews, neutralnews, etc), but here it should happen across servers.
Beehaw is a bit of a weird animal, they don’t like having so many users all at once because it leads to moderation issues. I think they should have just appointed more mods, but they decided on the last-resort option of splintering off temporarily. They really value having a small,close-knit community - they don’t allow people to start their own communities (the subreddit equivalent), downvotes aren’t allowed, etc, so discussion is only focused on a few main channels.
As a new user, i think it’s fine for you to be on lemmyworld! It has the largest variety of content here, although the pace of new content is still slow because lemmy has 1% of 1% of reddit’s userbase. Feel free to contribute!
The takeaway for now is, you can see beehaw posts but can’t really participate. I personally found it useful to block beehaw communities so I can see the activity elsewhere. The current default lemmy sort isn’t very good - I would try sorting by Hot or New.
Thanks for this explanation. I’m starting to understand this a bit more and more. I think once apps become more mature things will become better… I was spoiled by Apollo.
Long story short, Beehaw is a heavily moderated instance and said that Lemmy didn’t have strong moderation tools yet. So for the time being, they have defederated.
Here’s their rational: https://lemm.ee/post/58240
Best to unsubscribe from any Beehaw communities until they refederate. It’s not that things are fracturing, it’s that Beehaw has a certain set of ethos they want to maintain, and the lack of mod tools currently makes that impossible at the moment. There’s no bad blood between the instances.
Yeah i blocked all beehaw communities so they don’t show up for now - not out of bad blood or anything, but just so I don’t accidentally comment in a place where it wont be read.
Beehaw only has a very limited number of communities anyway, so i see this as a good way to build up the equivalent communities (news, tech etc) elsewhere.
The fediverse was always “fractured”, which is the whole point of it. Beehaw is a heavily moderated and with that censored instance. If you’re not a fan of that, then you just shouldn’t join Beehaw. Lemmy.world is still federated with the majority of instances, so is kbin and a lot of other big instances.