68
"Beehaw has now defederated from 2 of the biggest/most active Lemmy instances" on Hexbear
www.hexbear.net"At this point, Beehaw seems to not want to federate. They defederated from Lemmy.world and shitjustworks. Both can be found on the join-lemmy page.
They have defederated from the most communities at like 352 lol. Shitjustworks and Lemmy World don't even have that much of a culture difference with Beehaw from what I see.
Shitjustworks also bans lemmygrad. Lemmyworld hasn't tho (and honestly might not, it's been 2 weeks and nothing has happened on that front)
Essentially, they don't like their open registration policy and the increase in users... I have never seen such an argument before but lol.
If I am not mistaken Lemmy.world is the community with the most active users and 2nd amount of total users (behind Lemmy.ml). Idk the numbers behind shitjustworks but it was near the top.
I can't confirm the exact numbers since the tools to verify user count are down atm.
For more info here is the Beehaw post :
https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Even the Libs at kbin don't have the best words https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/22329/Beehaw-defederating-from-lemmy-world-and-sh-itjust-works"
…
They probably took the Reddit population at face value, not realising that so much of Reddit is either curated or controlled so that only reactionary views come through.
When people have the freedom to say what they want without the five eyes fiddling with the algorithm, leading brigades, or outright deleting progressive and revolutionary-leaning content, the discourse and culture look very different.
I’m not surprised that ordinary people won’t generally fall for the beehaw sales pitch. But they clearly don’t expect to ever see contradictory views.