This is more of a question for the admins, but this can certainly be a more open discussion.
Per this thread, beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works two months ago, around the time that the reddit exodus was happening. Lemmy was blowing up, those instances had an open sign-up policy, and this meant that admins of other instances (like Beehaw) that wanted to heavily moderate their communities became quickly overwhelmed with the number of users from these two instances. Beehaw defederated to make the workload more realistic.
Two months on, I’m wondering if this defederation is still necessary. It seems to me that Lemmy overall has slowed down a lot, and maybe the flow of users from these outside servers would not be as overwhelming as it was before? I respect the decision of the admins one way or the other - I know that the lack of moderation tools was another factor in this decision. I’m just curious if this is something that has been considered recently?
It’s a comment I’d made previously that covers the same topic. Sorry for not annotating my life enough for your convenience
The comment would be more useful if you linked to the threads you reference in it.
Would you mind doing a copy/paste of that comment here?
Are you talking about /c/conservative on Lemmy World? That moderator was instantly banned from Lemmy World and the community was handed over to a different mod team.
This is the thread: https://lemmy.world/post/136470
Not my comment, I was just quoting it here since the original commenter linked to their comment on kbin which isn’t terribly useful to users here. You’d have to ask @[email protected]
Thank you.
How does that cover it though? There’s no further evidence in that comment either. Are we supposed to just take your word for it?