โฒ 292 โผ Beehaw defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (beehaw.org) submitted 3 years ago by gary@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world 284 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[โ] JanoRis@lemmy.world 15 points 3 years ago (2 children) Sounds kinda like they are trying to grab "power" aka. growing their community more than others through exclusivity. Well if that turns out to be the case other communities can probably just block them in return, but still not a fan of that development permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [โ] maynarkh@feddit.nl 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) Isn't federation symmetrical? So if they defederate most of the Fediverse, they will not be able to interact with it? I think it's logical to keep it that way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [โ] XanXic@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago They're prompting the devs to make defederation one way. So they can block the fediverse at large from interacting with them but their users still have access to everything. Sets a bad example. The pitch is a pooled community. Not a series of tiny insulated Reddits using the same software permalink fedilink source parent [โ] AntY@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago I agree. It makes it cost a bit more to defederate and therefore more valuable to keep everything open and available. The best thing with reddit was that it was a one-stop shop while it's a bit more confusing with this federation stuff. If this defederation wasn't a two-way street, it would make for weird exclusive instances that could thrive on others content without contributing. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] falconfetus8@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago I got that vibe when I saw that they intentionally keep their rules vague, to make them harder to evade. That just sounded to me like a recipe for power tripping. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] maynarkh@feddit.nl 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) Isn't federation symmetrical? So if they defederate most of the Fediverse, they will not be able to interact with it? I think it's logical to keep it that way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [โ] XanXic@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago They're prompting the devs to make defederation one way. So they can block the fediverse at large from interacting with them but their users still have access to everything. Sets a bad example. The pitch is a pooled community. Not a series of tiny insulated Reddits using the same software permalink fedilink source parent [โ] AntY@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago I agree. It makes it cost a bit more to defederate and therefore more valuable to keep everything open and available. The best thing with reddit was that it was a one-stop shop while it's a bit more confusing with this federation stuff. If this defederation wasn't a two-way street, it would make for weird exclusive instances that could thrive on others content without contributing. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] XanXic@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago They're prompting the devs to make defederation one way. So they can block the fediverse at large from interacting with them but their users still have access to everything. Sets a bad example. The pitch is a pooled community. Not a series of tiny insulated Reddits using the same software permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] AntY@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago I agree. It makes it cost a bit more to defederate and therefore more valuable to keep everything open and available. The best thing with reddit was that it was a one-stop shop while it's a bit more confusing with this federation stuff. If this defederation wasn't a two-way street, it would make for weird exclusive instances that could thrive on others content without contributing. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] falconfetus8@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago I got that vibe when I saw that they intentionally keep their rules vague, to make them harder to evade. That just sounded to me like a recipe for power tripping. permalink fedilink source parent