this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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My personal tldr is that lemmy.world & sh.itjust.works have open registration and beehaw admins are have had enough dealing with a ton of troll accounts from these 2 instances. Is this a problem for Midwest.social? I'm subscribed to a couple of (non toxic I hope) communities.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So far we haven't had much of an issue with either instance. So, fingers crossed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's one of the benefits I feel to being a smaller instance is we're not as much on the radar for things like that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, midwest.social hasn't defederated from either community (as far as I know) and you should continue to see and be able to interact with content from all 3. It's just that users on behaw won't be able to see/interact with content from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, and vice versa.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yup. At any time you can click the "instances" button on the bottom to see who we are connected with and who we block.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren't they just doing it because they can't handle the traffic currently? They'll just refederate when they can.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That and the lack of quality mod tools built into Lemmy. Anything popular on the internet has to deal with trolls and other bad actors trying to be disruptive. Users can go to the open registration instances and make a new account as fast as the instance mods can ban them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, makes sense. Figured it wasn't drama. Just temporary measures.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is my fear too. I remember when identi.ca got overran with spam. It was months before they got it sorted and by the time they did the community was dead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mostly lurk and haven't seen any issues, yet :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently they don't even have an "enter" key. :P

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

i think lemmy pulled in the text of the whole article as a summary, instead of just a small part of it. I guess Lemmy doesn't know what to do correctly when linking to a post on a Lemmy :D

[–] tallwookie 2 points 1 year ago

didnt beehaw go "safe" a few days ago? it seems that their growth has plateaued