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?

  • sebovzeoueb@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    participate the effort to create an alternative to Reddit people leave Reddit to join the alternative be unable to handle the influx of people trying to use the alternative to a website with millions of users

    • Andreas@feddit.dk
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      2 years ago

      Their reasons are much more selfish than that. They insist on only having 4 moderators while never scaling up, and they don’t like how federation allows users from other instances to post on their instance because it disrupts their rigid ideal community vibe. According to their suggestions on “improving moderation tooling”, the ideal federation setup is that their users can post on other instances, but other instances’ users can’t post on theirs, so they can save time on moderation work. The moderation work of other instance admins for their users doesn’t matter, clearly.

      • Morgikan@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        I read their post explaining the decision, but it seems like it is at odds with itself. If your goal is to create a safe space, why are you using a federated service? I understand you have the option to defederate, but at that point why didn’t you just setup a standalone message board. It just feels that their use case doesn’t fit the system.

      • Knoll0114@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        The community vibe is definitely a huge motivation. They want to be able to control the sort of people on their instance which they can’t do if the mass user bases from lemmy.world etc. that are (relatively) neutral have access. It’s a shame because they had some good communities established.

        • Dick Justice@lemmy.worldOP
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          2 years ago

          Yeah, I don’t believe for one second that those 4 admins have actually, meaningfully, personally vetted 11,000+ users. People have posted (sorry, I dont have the link) here that they just filled the “application” out with nonsense and still got approved.

          • Goronmon@kbin.social
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            2 years ago

            Yeah, I don’t believe for one second that those 4 admins have actually, meaningfully, personally vetted 11,000+ users.

            So, if they are struggling the moderate a community with 11,000+ users, it would make sense for them to limit an even large number of external users for the time being until they feel they have things better in control, correct?

            • Dick Justice@lemmy.worldOP
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              2 years ago

              That’s not what I’m commenting on, but yeah, naturally. It’s their instance, they can do what they want.