- cross-posted to:
- news@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- news@beehaw.org
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/628792
From the article:
"Beehaw is relatively new and relatively small at the moment, but it’s one of the closest approximations of what Reddit is that you’re going to find, and well worth investigating as a Reddit replacement. The interface even looks a lot like Reddit, albeit without a lot of the on-screen features and furniture that build up over almost two decades of operation.
Have a read of the Beehaw mission statement and you’ll see the platform is committed to avoiding the “hate speech” and “disinformation” that’s prevalent elsewhere. The communities available right now cover everything from neurodivergence and people of color to literature and gardening, so you’re sure to find something of interest here."
This is good news, I’m just sad they defederated with so many instances.
They do want to refederate when we get some better moderation tools. It would be cool if we had a list of the tools they need the most in order to refederate as I’m sure some in the community would be more motivated to make those tools if they new the priorities.
It certainly comes at an unfortunate time, but I can’t fault them for wanting to build a community around their own ideology. They were left with few other options since the existing moderation tools won’t yet facilitate the enforcement of such rules. It will come eventually.
I mean, when some of those sites they defederated from are going around proudly announcing they’d rather ban people asking that they defederate from the Nazi instance than the Nazi instance itself, it really drives home how much it was the right decision. We absolutely, under no circumstances, should let this space become just another Nazi bar.
I just checked, and Beehaw has defederated with 388 instances. Either the fediverse is overrun with nazis, or you’re making a massive generalization and Beehaw is being ridiculous.
You do know that whole “Lemmy was created by Nazis” thing was just a story made up by one guy, right? I mean sure, Nazis exist but what they’re done is effectively ban the entire world because Nazis exist in the world.
What’s this, now? Lemmy is infamously made by communists.
The instances that have been defederated deserved it.
“Moderate your users or get shut off” is not a new concept. Email server admins do it all the time when they blacklist other email servers for enabling spam and scams.
It’s on those instances to start acting like good community members again, at which point other instances will open back up to them.
Part of the problem is that we just don’t have good moderating tools yet. Getting shut off due to lack of moderation is probably a good incentive to help develop such tools and start using them.
If not, then that reinforces defederation as having been justified.
Or it will just kill Beehaw because they’re now cut off from most of the other larger lemmy instances. Unless their users are just super loyal for some reason. If I were a member there I would have already jumped ship.