Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts.

Edit: A lot of people are asking why Beehaw did this. I want to keep this post informational and not color it with my personal opinion. I am adding a link to the Beehaw announcement if you are interested in reading it, you can form your own views. https://beehaw.org/post/567170

  • Nothus@infosec.pub@infosec.pubEnglish
    42·
    1 year ago

    I’m not sure what you mean by “tanky instances” and haven’t heard of the defederating that you’re referring to. Could you link me some info about it? Everything I’m finding says that the main lemmy instances are run by “tankies,” which is apparently a pejorative term for communists.

    • CaptainEffort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, before all the new Reddit refugees the biggest instance was Lemmygrad, which was run and used exclusively by tankies. It gave Lemmy a bad wrap unfortunately.

      Obviously with all the new users that’s changed, with instances like Lemmy.World quickly surpassing it. Now I’m not even sure if Lemmygrad is in the top 5. But my point is that most big instances have defederated from Lemmygrad, lemmy.world included.

      • Nothus@infosec.pub@infosec.pubEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        Thank you. I’m going to research into this more, and I’m not above blocking every lemmy.world community as well. Seems like the biggest instances are the ones with the most uptight powermods. That’s to be expected. What was their reasoning for defederating from lemmygrad.ml and the other “tankie” instances- do you know?