Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances

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    1 year ago

    I havenā€™t had much experience with lemmy at all, in order to guess, and Iā€™ve seen conflicting things about them. Lemmy was already bigger and it feels like it got a lot more publicity than kbin, so they bore the brunt of the exodus. Itā€™s possible they didnā€™t get as lucky as we did in who that constituted. The devsā€™ weird CCP bent overshadowing some other instancesā€™ reportedly great admins just makes it even more of a confusing mess culture-wise.

    Iā€™d like to think we can abide by such stringent rules implications as ā€œbe nice.ā€ But their stated reasoning is that thereā€™s just too much content to ever hope to moderate by themselves, whichā€¦they really should have seen coming on a platform whose intent is to federate, ngl. Doesnā€™t matter if your homebase is young. You need underlings for this once it gets beyond a couple hundred people.

    Which is why Iā€™m leaning on the side of beehaw eventually deciding thereā€™s no choice but to defed way more than this until and unless they can afford help. With four admin-mods alone against the mercy of the entire fediverse, their hopes of upholding the mission statement will eventually be laughable any other way.

    Not that I think weā€™re nearly as bad as other places out there. I think weā€™ve got a surprisingly great atmosphere going and I hope to god it stays. But those are their two options, and kbin users seem to have an admirably civil tendency both to shitpost and to question and hear out differing viewpoints in a way Iā€™m not sure beehaw will appreciate.

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      1 year ago

      Yup. I completely agree. I understand why beehaw defederated from lemmy because lemmy kinda seemsā€¦ unhinged, in comparison to beehawā€™s carefully crafted community.

      Whereas kbin I think youā€™re right, tend to be happy to civilly hear each other out. whereas I feel like beehaw isnā€™t really interested in that. Though I think of kbin users respect beehawā€™s way of doing things while weā€™re in their space, they might not have issues with us.

      granted, the response I got was ā€œwe donā€™t even think about youā€ so maybe kbin is too small to really be noticeable to them lol.

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        Unhinged. Youā€™ve found the perfect word for it. They come off to me like what happens in study hall when the instructor has to leave.

        granted, the response I got was ā€œwe donā€™t even think about youā€ so maybe kbin is too small to really be noticeable to them lol.

        Goodness, my pride, lmao. I think Iā€™m quite content not to be such a giant enough instance I get thought of. Hundreds of comfier, smaller places over Reddit Deux any day. I agree, the people here seem on the whole cognizant enough to keep themselves in check, rather thanā€¦whatever reddit was. That would be one behavior I am thrilled to see die, and hopefully federating with more chaotic instances wonā€™t kick it up again. Iā€™m concerned it may.