It's not about the servers, it's about moderation. They have a clear vision of what their instance should be like but they don't have the tools not moderators to make it so while getting traffic from other big instances

[–] zabraven@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

in the future when they possibly have more moderators and the influx of users has slowed down on lemmy.world, would it be easy to federate again? i know many instances defederate from others that go against their beliefs or how they want to run the community, but ive not heard of any that have re-federated

[–] nodiet@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I saw a post by one of the lemmy.world admins who said they had a discussion with the beehaw admins and their ideals align enough that they think they will federate again once moderation has gotten under control.

Edit: it was actually the sh.itjust.works admin

Edit 2: here's the link to the post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/129725

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone have a link for the curious?

[–] nodiet@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Found it again: https://sh.itjust.works/post/129725

[–] lich_hegemon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is hearsay, but I believe it is temporary until better moderation features are developed and user influx shows down.

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 5 points 1 year ago

Not to be too much of a pedant, but I think the messaging is important: it's not about how many moderators, it's about moderation tools. Lemmy's are a little too rudimentary for what they want.

Anyway, refederation would entail taking lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works off their blocklist. That would allow users on those instances to subscribe again and comment/post. That part would be user-initiated. Then on the Beehaw side, they'd have to subscribe again to lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works communities. That part would also be user-initiated.