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iso ,
@iso@lemy.lol avatar

It’s been over for so long that it’s almost forgotten, huh? Here’s the announcement: beehaw.org/post/567170

As I remember, it was about open registration policy and poor moderation.

FundMECFSResearch OP ,

Thanks, post was an interesting read.

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yeah, that post gives the answer better than anything else. I was going to chime in with a rough explanation off of memory, but the actual post is way better.

davidgro ,

I’m a little surprised they are even still going. I guess staying small really was a goal.

macarthur_park ,

Beehaw had been around for a few years before lemmy.world launched. They have a specific sort of space they want to create, so good for them for being able to maintain it.

BackOnMyBS ,
@BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place avatar

I admire their boundaries and steadfastness

LibertyLizard ,

I’m surprised they haven’t re-federated by now. I kind of got the impression it would be temporary during the main Reddit migration but I guess not. I really like the beehaw community but it definitely seems inconvenient to not be able to access all of those bigger communities on world and shjw.

Excrubulent ,
@Excrubulent@slrpnk.net avatar

I have noticed that a lot of the most irritating and vocal reactionaries come from those two instances, and it’s not improving much. It makes sense - this is an alternative to reddit and the people most likely to leave reddit will include a large number of people who get banned a lot.

If they’re reactionaries, they’re not going to have many instances that are for them specifically - because those instances get defedded - so they will tend to go for the open instances. So those instances get a lot of the worst people.

And if their goal is growth at the expense of quality, then they won’t fix it. They’ll just get worse. The reasons beehaw defederated haven’t changed.

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

im sure you can find more info on beehaw, but really they just wanted to avoid a metric tonne of negative influencing (political or otherwise) and drama.

FundMECFSResearch OP ,

That’s fair.

Wonder why they haven’t done the same with lemmy.ml too? Given how inflammatory it is there

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

that is a great question.

part of what pushed me into running a public instance was their closed stance. i appreciated their genial camaraderie, but i dont like being closed off.

Zaktor ,

It’s interesting how the most open instances aren’t the biggest ones with no user restrictions, but the smaller instances that no one has issues with. I moved away from LW because of performance issues, but I’m happy to be able to see both LW posts and BH posts. Sopuli has defederated from some instances, but I’m happy with their choices so it’s as unrestricted as I want it to be. Others would choose an even less restrictive/restricted small instance, or like yourself just run your own to have complete freedom.

nivenkos ,

BeeHaw went full Reddit powermod level of power-tripping.

Lost_My_Mind ,

So you’re saying it would be fun to show up on beehaw, flip everyone the finger, and leave.

Blaze ,

Please don’t, they are nice people, they just prefer to stay small

seathru ,
@seathru@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

If that’s what truly brings you joy; I’m sure they would be accepting.

I mean, you’d likely get banned. But I doubt there would be any lingering hard feelings.

Elevator7009 ,

Not sure them just defederating to stay small and to be able to handle all the reports, if I recall correctly, is the same thing as making arbitrary decisions in order to feel powerful.

half_built_pyramids ,

Like a plunger, always bringing up old shit

FundMECFSResearch OP ,

Are you insulting me? Or insulting BeeHaw mods?

half_built_pyramids ,

Notice there’s no piracy community

FundMECFSResearch OP ,

what are you on about, your instance is defederated from dbzr

RobotToaster ,
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

They’re defederated from virtually everyone. They may as well just use phpbb at this point.

Magister ,
@Magister@lemmy.world avatar

When Reddit announced their API thing, I moved to beehaw (LW didn’t exist) and it was cool! Then they defederated from instance one by one… So I opened an account on LW.

Beehaw is about dead, 70 users per day…

Quill7513 ,

Beehaw is my main instance. That number doesn’t sound right at all…

Magister ,
@Magister@lemmy.world avatar

if you go on the web page of beehaw, it says:

76 users / day

208 users / week

393 users / month

Die4Ever ,
@Die4Ever@programming.dev avatar

They may as well just use phpbb at this point.

idk I think even with federation fully disabled, Lemmy is still better than phpbb

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

but not invisionboard

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

well not from my instance, because of course.

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