• Faceman🇦🇺
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    101 year ago

    They are actively trying to be as clean and friendly as possible, and that’s admirable but the tools don’t exist for them to maintain that if they are fully federated. they are woefully undermoderated for how much traffic they are having to filter.

    Once better mod tools arrive they may be able to re-open to other large instances.

    Perhaps an option in the future would be for them to remain federated but somehow implement post/comment restrictions on outside instances to keep it under control.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      But that is an issue too. Why would other instances allow them full access while being prevented from collaborating in theirs ?

      • Quit_this_instance
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        181 year ago

        I’m not really keen on their reasons for defederating, but this makes no sense to me. What do I care if a beehaw user is posting good content on my community but I can’t go to their instance? It’s still more content and engagement for my community.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          I see your point. I was seeing it from the perspective of discouraging stuff to be shared on other communities because it’s already in beehaw, but you’d need an account to participate there.

          But I see what you say, allowing them to contribute to other instances isn’t bad even if they don’t allow those instances to contribute on theirs.

      • Faceman🇦🇺
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        51 year ago

        That’s each instances choice to make I guess, and it’s part of the freedom of the platform.

        beehaw would be within their rights to do it (effectively going read only to the outside, not currently possible but a requested feature is to have private or invite only communities), and if they are intending to be the clean family friendly option, it would be a valid choice to make if it were possible.