• Xathonn@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Since lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works didn’t have any restrictions on making accounts they were getting a lot of trolls coming from those 2 instances so they defederated from them until the moderation tools become more advanced.

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        Given that kbin (or at least kbin.social) generally doesn’t have restrictions on making accounts either I would assume we’re next, eventually.

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          This is what all us kbinauts were thinking and a few of us asked beehaw and their response was literally “who are you? we don’t even think about you” lol. so I think we’re probably fine.

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            If it comes to that… It is what it is!

            I don’t need big instances directly piped into my vein to have a good time on the internet.

    • Timboflex@lemmy.world
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      They only have 4 admins and don’t allow users to create communities. It’s highly curated, but also can’t handle the influx of users from other instances until they have better mod tools, or change their position.

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        The solution was to ask for more volunteer mods, not the nuclear option.

        Its surpassing how much they want to control what other people see.

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          Which they have been doing. They added a bunch of mods to local communities. But it just wasn’t enough, according to them.

          Its surpassing [sic] how much they want to control what other people see.

          Well that’s what they’ve said from the beginning. They wanted a more curated and friendly instance, rather than having the old reddit culture.

        • Timboflex@lemmy.world
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          100% agree, and their need for control is a huge red flag. I don’t really want them federated tbh. Already they are trying to use their control over several large communities to influence other instances policies.

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      From my understanding, with the slew of new users on lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, moderating comments and posts that were against Beehaw community rules (largely because of bigotry and harassment) became more or less impossible. While there has been an overall explosion in new accounts across the fediverse, almost all of their time was moderating users from those two instances. They were not able to find a compromise using the current mod tools, so went with the nuclear option while they figure out new solutions.

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      Here’s the truth. They want a safe space. If you question the admins they will ban you. You must be militantly polite or your gone