Beehaw Support

You're expressing one of the most frequent frustrations people bring up with the federated model.

To my mind, it's a matter of individual user expectations. There are a lot of people for whom centralized social media became "the internet," and the idea that websites were ever intended for anything but passive external linking to individual pages is foreign. This is not a universally shared starting point.

I have a .world account for my local community and, at this point, all non-Beehaw fediverse stuff. I'm still on a few message-board sites for niche topics that Reddit's generalization made difficult to get useful information about among the detritus.

Beehaw and .world serve different needs, so I view having multiple Lemmy accounts as being as reasonable as having a different login for my natural gas company than my electricity supplier.

I think federation is overrated. How difficult is it to have multiple accounts these days?

It will be very hard to vet users from other instances properly in the Fediverse. Even if tools exist to do better validation (like, for instance, allowing an instance to validate that the subscriber from another instance has a valid email address), someone with ill intent can figure out a way around that.

I think that the Fediverse could use an identity verification service, but fear that's what Facebook is trying to be.

The open signups is the sticking point. Even at the point of de-federation, Lemmy.world was a respectable community and still is today (even if it's shitpost city for beans atm)

The admins here aim to curate an explicitly friendly space to chat, and they intend to achieve that through extensive manual review. They've also posted an article about how if you let even a small amount of toxicity through, you quickly lose your nicest and friendliest members of the community.

I think what they are waiting on is A) a more granular ability to allowlist or blocklist communities on specific servers, B) enforce a manually reviewed application for users on other instances to post on Beehaw, C) Allow only one-way posting but two-way reading.

See this comment and see Lemmy isues #3255 and #3275

The mods have stated a few times that it's just a matter of having the right tools to better handle to influx in trolls that the instances bring in. The admins and mods are in communication with the other instances working on a solution.

As a whole even when we were still federated the majority of the shit.justworks and .world instances were fine. A little more typically abrasive internet guy but the majority of users are just people. The problem was due to their open registration process that a disproportionate amount of moderated and banned users came from these instances and with the current explosion in users and everything else on their plate the mods had to do what they had to do.

Refederation will happen eventually though.

I think that begging the mods for refederation will be a common occurrence in the newly emerging fediverse, but I think we'll all just have to get used to the idea that the fediverse is about voluntary communities and you'll have to forge your own path using multiple accounts/etc. The entire point of defederation is that Beehaw doesn't want certain communities or people with certain viewpoints congregating here - that's the choice of this community and the use of multiple accounts does get around that but it's just what will have to be done if you want to be someone associated with defederated communities.