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[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 year ago

Can you elaborate more on this? Its a tangent, but one I'm out of the loop on.

Why DID beehaw split?

[-] tymon@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

I'm not fully in the know on this by any means, but from what I understand, Beehaw's admins/mods decided to defederate from sh.itjustwor.ks and lemmy.world because of an inability to moderate effectively due to the massive influx of new Lemmy users last week - most of which were in those two instances, as they have open registration.

Beehaw requires you to apply to join.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

How would splitting off fix that problem, though? If 100k users joined beehaw, and they stop syncing with the rest of the federation, they still have 100k new users to moderate.

Or am I looking at this backwards, and they want their gated garden, absent of slugs?

[-] god@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Beehaw would not let 100k users into their platform to start with. They will grow according to their means to moderate. That's why they only allow sign-ups through application, go bring down the number of new sign-ups and filter by quality.

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