German it magazine iX has an interview with the mods of r/de. I don't know if this was mentioned here before...
Short summary: the mods of the large German communities see a huge issue with reddit not recognizing content creators and mods work and there seems to be growing support for an ongoing blackout or so they say.
That's an important question to ask. For me (and I want to make very clear that this is exclusively how I handle things for myself) there is a huge difference between things I use (or what I call passive association) and things I work on or contribute to (or what I call active association).
While im ok-ish with using their software if they don't really profit from my usage, I wont be actively helping them. Given the state of the world and western society, I can't really escape using products that are unethical and as a software developer working for a company I can't really decide who gets to use my paid work and since I very much like having a bed and a roof and food and even some comfort in that, I'd rather stick to my job, but I can make a choice on who I support with my free time.
It's a technical limitation. In very easy (and therefore not entirely correct) terms, beehaw stopped talking to these instances. Beehaw will not load content from there, so you wouldn't get any new posts or comments on communities that are hosted there, and these communities wouldn't get anything you'd write because it's always the hosting instance that keeps the master-copy of all content in it's communities and only the master-copy is used to copy this content to other instances.
Just to put an additional perspective on this. Beehaw has been and/or had to defederate instances before to become and stay the safe space everyone here's enjoying. The only major difference here is that this time it hit two major instances and not because of actions or goals of the majority of their population or admins but because the sheer size of the instances made the small percentage of their users, who act in what is considered a bad way, made it to much to handle.
According to this list of Awesome Lemmy Instances, there are 5 instances who's count of blocked instances is way above every other instance (like 5 times more). Beehaw is one of those, in fact Beehaw is on top of that list. While this of course isn't desirable, it made the communities we have here possible in first place and helped shape them into what they're now. Just check the blocked instances list.
I think, just closing the valve on certain pipes is a legitimate course of action especially in short term while other measures are put into place (like getting better tools to handle the pressure or expecting the general pressure to go down). If the only two options for this valve are "fully open" and "fully closed" it seems to me like the only course of action to prevent overpressure from flooding the whole place.
On your PC you can just have 2 browsertabs with two different accounts on different instances open. Since these have different URLs, your browser doesn't understand that it's two of the same (like in two lemmy tabs) and wont interfere with cookies, sessions and such.
I don't think anyone is calling you toxic (I honestly haven't read all the comments). The decision was made due to the fact that the two instances in questions have and allow a huge influx of unvetted accounts and with that all those users also can walk in here. With this crowd comes a small percentage of toxic people that sre still to many be filtered out on this side using the current moderation tools.
Hi, I'm Nicktar, end-40s software architect and creator of unfinished projects. I love to find out how stuff works and if I can make it better or different or repair it but once I figured out how to do that and and know that I could do this, I lose interest and it becomes work... So my place is filled with (partially) working prototypes like cat toys, hydroponic flowerpots, broken tablets halfway turned into interactive picture frames, disassembled cordless screwdrives that need a new battery...
Also climate activist, table top roleplayer and currently quite busy playing around with Stable Diffusion
Thanks for the clear and open communication here. It's inconvenient but totally understandable and the main point with federation: If you want to, you can have a second account "outside" and whenever you want to read some post from these instances, you can make the decision to "go out" and do so before retreating to your safe home. No need to have your home possibly violated by an unvetted crowd if you can have an interaction wirh parts of that crowd outside.
I'd tag it as "wearing a suit, flowers in background" or "wearing a suit in front of flowers". Basically what you're doing with the description is saying "I'm going to show you an image of this_awesome_person, please ignore that they're wearing a suit, flowers in background". If you also describe that it's a man, you ask SD to ignore the fact for the training.
P.S.: Please ignore the different accounts, I got confused, made two, this one's the main one...
same here... just right now downloading the font, thinking if I don't at least give it a try, I'll forever wonder what it'd be like...
I think it's a lot less nefarious. About every post or article about Lemmy that links to Lemmy instances has links to (in this order in almost every article I remember) lemmy.world, lemmy.ml and beehaw.org. Of these 3 only lemmy.world accepts new users without vetting. Lemmy.ml doesn't accept new users at all and beehaw doesn't really look that welcoming to someone who knows they might stir some shit up in the future and also getting into beehaw requires more effort. So with lemmy.world usually being the first on the list and additionally requires the least effort to join, this is where all the world and their uncle end up on. They just get the biggest unfiltered influx and with that the biggest amount of toxic people. (I want to make sure that I'm not calling lemmy.world users lazy or toxic or anything like or that this is their target audience. It's just a fact fact that someone who can't be bothered to do research and/or "write an essay" as someone called it, will most likely end up on lemmy.world)