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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Aren't they just doing it because they can't handle the traffic currently? They'll just refederate when they can.
That and the lack of quality mod tools built into Lemmy. Anything popular on the internet has to deal with trolls and other bad actors trying to be disruptive. Users can go to the open registration instances and make a new account as fast as the instance mods can ban them.
My first thought was this was some ego bullshit in a new and growing platform. But apparently the Beehaw people reached out to the other instances and they all agreed that defederating was the only real option for now.
Yeah, makes sense. Figured it wasn't drama. Just temporary measures.
This is my fear too. I remember when identi.ca got overran with spam. It was months before they got it sorted and by the time they did the community was dead.