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I thought I understood, but I still have Beehaw content in my feed, so I guess I don't understand after all... Can someone dumb it down for me?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Was there a reason why they defederated??

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This link doesn't work anymore

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

want a better space, and we think this is necessary to do that right now. if you disagree we understand that, but we hope you can if nothing else come away with the understanding it was an informed decision.

this is also not a permanent judgement (or a moral one on the part of either community’s owner, i should add–we just have differing interests here and that’s fine). in the future as tools develop, cultures settle, attitudes and interest change, and the wave of newcomers settles down, we’ll reassess whether we feel capable of refederating with these communities.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently the 4 admins are having trouble dealing with the influx of new users, so they defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works because their open registration policies are giving them the most problems.

https://beehaw.org/post/567170

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

Ok I'm one of the new users and it looks like I've commented on communities hosted there maybe a half dozen times. I guess I'm part of the problem πŸ˜”

But I'm a little unclear about the role an admin plays on an instance? Are they actually taking on mod responsibilities, in which case I can certainly understand how 4 would be totally swamped?

I guess in my head I sort of imagined each community has its own mod(s) and the admins would only step in as a kind of "supreme court" if some dispute gets out of hand? I've probably got this totally wrong.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's what I was wondering. I'm just going off what they said. I know they don't allow communities to be created except what they did themselves, so maybe they are taking on all the mod responsibilities?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes but this is a nonstandard approach. For most instances it works as you had originally described.