Beehaw has a goal of being a completely troll-free safe place for their members. When the Reddit surge happened, .world and shit just works had open and automated signups, and apparently Beehaw communities saw a lot of harassment from people on those two instances. The mod tools don’t allow them to do much more than defederate, so that’s what they did. They said they intend to refederate when they have tools that allow them to deal with the situation better.
There’s one part that has always been a lie perpetuated by beehaw: lemmy.world did have an email verification requirement for sign up at that time, despite what beehaw claimed.
I know this, because I made my account right at that period of time, just days before they defederated.
TLDR – Beehaw claimed it was too hard to moderate the spam coming out of Lemmy.world because Lemmy.world had open registration and were allowing Reddit levels of trolling
What even was the reason for beehaw defederating?
Beehaw has a goal of being a completely troll-free safe place for their members. When the Reddit surge happened, .world and shit just works had open and automated signups, and apparently Beehaw communities saw a lot of harassment from people on those two instances. The mod tools don’t allow them to do much more than defederate, so that’s what they did. They said they intend to refederate when they have tools that allow them to deal with the situation better.
There’s one part that has always been a lie perpetuated by beehaw: lemmy.world did have an email verification requirement for sign up at that time, despite what beehaw claimed.
I know this, because I made my account right at that period of time, just days before they defederated.
Yeah, I joined the day before you and also had to provide email. I just assumed that that was added shortly before I joined.
ANNOUNCEMENT: defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
TLDR – Beehaw claimed it was too hard to moderate the spam coming out of Lemmy.world because Lemmy.world had open registration and were allowing Reddit levels of trolling
Heard I was coming probs