Like many of you, I woke up this morning to discover that our instance, along with lemmy.world, had been unexpectedly added to the beehaw block list. Although this development initially caught me off guard, the administrators at beehaw made an announcement shedding light on their decision.

The primary concern raised was our instance’s policy of open registration. Given my belief that the fediverse is still navigating its early stages, I believe that for it to mature, gain traction, and encourage adoption, it is crucial for instances to offer an uncomplicated and direct route for newcomers to join and participate. This was one of the reason I decided to launch this instance. However, I do acknowledge that this inclusive approach brings its unique challenges, including the potential for toxicity and trolls. Despite these hurdles, I maintain the conviction that our collective strength as a community can overcome these issues.

After this happened, the beehaw admins and I had a good chat about their decision. While our stances on registration policies might diverge, we realized that our ultimate goals are aligned: we both strive to foster communities that thrive in an atmosphere of safety and respect, where users can passionately engage in discussions and feel a sense of belonging.

Although the probability of an immediate reversal are slim given the current circumstances, I believe we have managed to identify common ground. It’s evident that, even in separation, we can unite to contribute positively to the broader fediverse community.

In the coming weeks or months, we plan to collaborate with other lemmy instance administrators to suggest enhancements and modifications to the lemmy project. Primarily, our proposals will concentrate on devising tools and features that empower us, as instance administrators, to moderate our platforms effectively.

In the meantime, while I understand may not be ideal for everyone, users who choose to participate on the beehaw instance will be required to register a separate account on their instance.

Thank you all for continuing to make this community great!

  • toastio@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    That’s a bummer. I get it (somewhat), but I’m not really fan of that type of gatekeeping by beehaw. On the positive side, it makes me really appreciate this instance/community and makes me want to interact more on here instead. So I’m looking forward to that.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah. They value heavy moderation as a way to sanitize their community. Fine if that’s what they want but this has quickly taught me that instance isn’t for me. Too authoritarian in my view.

      I’m impressed with how The Dude seems to be handling things here.

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    1 year ago

    Brief explanation of how defederation works.

    Basically Beehaw and all its communities and users are now blocking everyone from this server. We can’t post to their communities and they can’t see anything that we post on third party communities either.

    However, this server has not defederated Beehaw. Therefore, we can still see their users commenting on third party communities, and we can even reply to them, they just won’t see our reply, although neutral parties will.

    Both Beehaw and sh.itjust.works are still able to contribute significant activity to Lemmy as a whole, just not directly to each other for now. Let’s all be diligent on reporting and banning trolls quickly so we can maintain the collegial atmosphere here.

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    1 year ago

    Serious question: What is the alternative to open registration? Invite-only? What is the expectation?

    Seems a bit kneejerk to defederate, that’s employing the nuclear option as the first step. It doesn’t leave a lot of room for dialog.

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    1 year ago

    Oh, so the person who posted their tiny penis on the feminism community actually admitted to it? Fascinating. They do know their post lasted like two minutes, right? I was more impressed with Beehaw’s moderation team acting so fast than I was with their quick shot.

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    1 year ago

    I’d just like to say that I appreciate your stance on open registration and making things as uncomplicated as possible. I signed up for a Beehaw account before this even happened, but I did find having to explain myself and justify my presence a little confusing. I also signed up for a discuss.tchncs.de account and I was so confused and thought their website was broken because once I clicked sign up, it didn’t do anything. Just span around in a circle. It wasn’t until I checked my email that I realised it wanted me to confirm my email. Here, things did just work. No complications, just entered my name, email and password, clicked sign up, and I was done! I guess you could say… shit just works on sh.itjust.works

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    1 year ago

    Anyone else noticing that the only people getting pissy about this instance being defederated from beehaw due to trolls…

    …Aren’t even from from this instance?

    Just asshats from exploding heads feeling the need to come defend their right to be dicks.

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    1 year ago

    Fuck em, I applied to several different servers and it took days to get accepted. Open registration is necessary

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      1 year ago

      I do acknowledge that this inclusive approach brings its unique challenges, including the potential for toxicity and trolls.

      Annnnnnd there it is.

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    1 year ago

    The Beehaw moderator just release an update that is interesting and very good-willed. But I’m confused. I had no problem commenting in Nature and Gardening which is on the Beehaw instance. I thought this wasn’t possible as a sh.itjust.works user?

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      1 year ago

      You can comment there and I probably can see it. They can’t because they’re not pulling sh.itjust.works data.

      • RobbTargaryen@sh.itjust.works
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        That makes sense! Is there a place we can see instances that we defederated, if any? I was trying to find Container Gardening which is in instance “I use arch linux FYI” but haven’t had any luck.

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      1 year ago

      It is possible, but Beehaw users won’t see your comment (I may be wrong, this is still a bit complicated for me as well).

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        1 year ago

        In fact, no one outside of your instance will be able to see it, because everyone else’s version is in sync with beehaw, which doesn’t get your comments.