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With the defederation active, how has it affected your subscriptions? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by nlm@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

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Now that we're no longer linked to lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works we can't subscribe to their communities any more.

How affected were your subscriptions? How many of your subs stopped working?

My subs were mostly beehaw and lemmy.world so I'm looking for new stuff. :)

Do you have some tips for interesteing communities on other instances?

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[–] supernovae@readit.buzz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's unfortunate that Beehaw started so many communities with such generic names with so few admins. The "beauty" of federation/lemmey/kbin aka "Reddit style" is that communities are supposed to be self-organizing and have their own representation/moderation.

I think the bigger problem is Beehaw decided to launch so many generic names copying Reddit's busiest and most generic reddits without thinking through the moderationand traffic overhead.

it should be instances have their champion topics and they're federated or if they have the manpower/technology and funding they can go for the big generic names.

I get why things were defederated - but blaming open registrations is a cop-out (a big lie... you can't know people by their registration info). It was bad "systems thinking' that led to an overwhelmed system that will continue to be overwhelmed.