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What are your thoughts on Beehaw defederating? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Jenga@lemm.ee to c/meta@lemm.ee

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My first account on the fediverse was on Beehaw and I was happy with it, but defederating from two of the largest instances gave me a reason to find a new instance. Personally I understand and respect the decision -that is the point of the fediverse afterall.

They had a lot of good communities that will not be cut off from the fastest growing instances which will make things tough to rebuild I think.

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[–] eee@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i'm new here but i was on reddit for a long time, and was around during the attempted voat migration.

the main obstacle to a new platform succeeding is that you need a critical mass of content. Of all the people who join, only 10% or so will be actively posting, the rest are just here to consume.

beehaw had a lot of activity, and a few of their subs got to what I consider a critical mass for good discussion. and now they've gone rogue.

I understand the mods had a hard time, but... seriously, this is a huge blow to the fediverse. of all the actions anyone could have done, they've done the most damage to the success of the fediverse, right at a time when growth and activity here is crucial.

I can't help but think the mods could have asked for help moderating. it's a sad sad situation.

i'm personally not going to contribute there anymore, because I want the fediverse as a whole to take off.

[–] jackissocool@urbanists.social 1 points 1 year ago

I really don't get why they didn't bring on more mods from their community. They've been around for more than 6 months. There's no users that have earned the admins' trust in that time?

[–] SlowNoPoPo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

100%, they are really shooting themselves in the foot by defederating