Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances

  • Nepenthe@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m personally hoping for a unique culture, especially since we currently have quite a good one. Going solo is just going solo – it’s sad and kinda dumb, since it defeats the entire point of the fediverse, but if they’re ok hanging out on a closed forum it’s not like those haven’t existed for decades.

    I hadn’t thought something like Mastodon would be able to defederate. Thinking about it, that would be far more disastrous for a platform aimed at following individuals to be able to do. The stress induced from having to choose an instance knowing they block other instances and being unable to even tell if that’s a bad thing or not until you investigate each and every one anyway. Having to look up what your favorites are on, if you’re on Mastodon, so you can get news without leaving any of them out. What a mess.

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      They’re not going solo though. They are still connected to hundreds of other instances. Including Lemmy.ml, which is still the biggest instance.

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        Additionally, the Beehaw admins have said they’re open to refederating with lemmy.world et al if/when Lemmy gets better moderation tools.

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      they defederated from Lemmy.world and the other one, that’s it

      they’re not closing themselves off; they made it very clear what they were doing and why; people keep just catastrophizing about it over and over for some reason

      like they made it clear what they were doing and that it wouldn’t necessarily be permanent