The confusion never went away. Beehaw defederated, so I understand that you would then have to create a specific Beehaw account in order to engage with Beehaw communities, but why would I want to as a Lemmy.world user, is what I'm confused about.

[–] Wander@yiffit.net 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not the most convenient though. You could have an account on any instance that's not lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works and you'd be able to access both beehaw and Lemmyworld/shitjustworks

[–] ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got my account on lemm.ee and was wondering how the defederation affected me, good to know, thanks.

[–] Wander@yiffit.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't. Beehaw blocked LW and SIJW because of open sign ups and, what I assume, was people creating new accounts when their old one was banned.

If you're not on any of those two instances or on beehaw, you're not impacted.

Beehaw is sending a message, imho, that instances need take reasonable measures to ensure their users don't repeatedly commit some sort of abuse.

This raises a question about the use case of user-only instances and community-only instances which might not be a bad idea.

[–] MuadDoc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Beehaw is sending a message, imho, that instances need take reasonable measures to ensure their users don’t repeatedly commit some sort of abuse.

Do mods even have this kind of power? Can they see what their users are posting on other instances?

For that matter, I don't know if this is so much a statement being made by Beehaw about quality of users as it is a necessary step for their moderation style. I think Beehaw has very strict mdoeration policies and they're just having a hard time keeping up with their own influx of users let alone LW and SIJW who have open registration.

In their own words

This is also not a permanent judgement (or a moral one on the part of either community’s owner, i should add–we just have differing interests here and that’s fine).

[–] Yoru@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why not lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works?

[–] hotdogcostanza@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My understanding from the announcement post was because those are two large instances with open registration, and they want to be able to better vet new users to make sure they're not trolls

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good luck to them vetting the entire internet. Hope they'll have fun in their little super duper exclusive club house.

[–] OrangeBench@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol, they were the first instance I tried to sign up for since they are large and loud. They interrogate you in order to make an account. "Why do you want to make an account on Beehaw?" Um, because I'm addicted to link aggregators and tired of Reddit? Does it fucking matter?

[–] mindrover@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It matters to them, so I guess you are not the type of user they want. It's annoying, but if they want their server to be more exclusive, they can do that. It is the beauty and the pain of federation.

[–] Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Safe space locks doors is how I read this whole thing.

[–] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Home instances stand strong 💪