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Beehaw* defederated us? (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, somewhat agree (they only had 4 main mods, that's rediculous) but they do raise a good point in the difficulty of maintaining a friendly and safe community with limited moderation possible.

What we need isn't large instances splitting off and defederating, it's better moderation tools and more volunteers.

I'm on a smaller instance and am still fully federated with all three instances involved, so it doesn't affect me, but that also means if I chose to be a dick and spam/troll on beehaw communities they would have to moderate me manually, or defederate from my instance too.

I suspect this will be reversed when better moderation is possible, or perhaps they will eventually be able to block posts and comments from other instances without defederating entirely if they want to remain as clean and high quality as they are attempting to be.