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Anybody know what's up with Beehaw blocking so many instances? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by EndOfLine to c/asklemmy

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I was looking at Lemmy instances and noticed that, at the time of this post, Beehaw has blocked 387 other instances ... including lemmy.world. This is more than any other instance with no other instance with more than 5 users comes even close to blocking so many. Does anybody know the rationale behind the decision to block so many instances?

Beehaw Instances for those wanting to see who they are blocking.

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[–] TheBananaKing 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Beehaw is very.... strongly ideological. Which is fair enough - it's a community built around strongly leftwing / progressive views, and they want to keep it that way.

Especially given the rudimentary moderation tools on this fledgeling platform, they just don't have a means to stem the tide of unwashed-masses stinking up the joint.

I too am a strongly leftwing-progressive person, but I don't like being in sooper-seekrit clubs for it; I'm more of a slug it out and yell at people kind of person - which is why I'm here rather than there.

[–] Wolfric1982 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"I too am a strongly leftwing-progressive person, but I don't like being in sooper-seekrit clubs for it; I'm more of a slug it out and yell at people kind of person - which is why I'm here rather than there."

I'm the exact same way. It's why I created a new account after they made that announcement

[–] KermitLeFrog 7 points 2 years ago

I'm the same. I enjoy the chance to have my viewpoints challenged. I don't often drastically change my mind but I almost always strengthen my understanding of different topics when I have to defend them. I do understand the desire to remove bad faith actors though. It's a tough line to walk

[–] Wolfric1982 14 points 2 years ago

I actually just created a new account on lemmy.world because of what beehaw did.

They are wanting to create an instance of inclusion that doesn't risk people feeling like they will be attacked. They are blocking instances where they are noticing "hate" coming from. They are doing it so they don't have to mod posts coming in to make sure they fit with what they are trying to create.

[–] Pansexual_Iguana 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Beehaw made an announcement recently stating they were experiencing a lot of trolls and other mod related issues. I’m new to this whole thing so I honestly didn’t understand (and still don’t) some aspects of these systems. But, from what I got, it might have to do with limited moderation power and dealing with trolls or something like that.

[–] Pansexual_Iguana 6 points 2 years ago

Forgot to attach the announcement https://beehaw.org/post/567170

[–] baascus 4 points 2 years ago

https://lemmy.world/post/145337

[–] RagingSnarkasm 2 points 2 years ago

This was what they announced:

https://beehaw.org/post/567170