All platforms could benefit from one or two things here: a big clear notification when viewing cached content from a defederated instance, to inform the user, and optionally, the inability to interact with local copies of content while the instance remains defederated

Everything Beehaw has been removed from my world. They have taken their box of rocks home. Let them keep them.

Last I checked, they have defederated 387 instances. That's nuts. They shouldn't be on any list that suggests them as a viable host to sign up with.

Don't defederate them. Let their users be confused as to why no one but beehaw users reply to their posts.

My biggest curiosity is what would happen if they refederated with lemmy.world? Would all the posts and comments that had been separated and not updated for each instance sync up to be viewable from both sides?

I hope at the least that the Beehaw communities are removed from the List of Communities/All page since anyone from this server subscribing to them won't receive any updates. Meanwhile, they are taking up space and preventing other communities from reaching the higher ranks.

I know absolutely nothing about how Lemmy works but there's hopefully some way or will need to be eventually a way to remove old posts from a certain instance. For instance if there is illegal content it would need to be removed. Building a good solution for this that could be done optionally in the defederation process would probably be good and will be necessary at some point anyway.

For instance you defederate from a nazi server — you'd absolutely want the nazi posts gone from your server. And legally you'd need to potentially depending on where the server was hosted — and of course other kinds of illegal content and networks.

I'm not sure what the current state of the tools is though.

reading their update today and ther impression that any refederation will be "weeks and months" then i think we should defederate.

while immediate re-federation is just bluntly off the table with the rudimentary state of Lemmy’s moderation tools, we now have a pretty good idea of the roadmap to refederating with them. we think we’ll eventually be able to do this, although we don’t have a timetable on when yet.

we’re also now collaborating with him on how to move forward–and in the weeks and months to come we’ll be pushing to expedite the process of developing some of the necessary tools. https://beehaw.org/post/594843

its just confusing to have 4 of the top 9 communities on the community list be ones we cant actually interact with.

Making de-federation reciprocal makes sense to me. Just to keep things clean, and to avoid unexpected/weird situations.

Purge them all!