Yeah, I do wonder if Beehaw is just block happy. I am scared of clicking on their list of banned instances (like if it’s really shitty stuff that no sane human can look at), but they have blocked almost 400 instances.

They haven’t blocked the main Lemmy one though. I’m guessing the main Lemmy instance has gotten better with the reddit migration.

What they did was the following : they defederated with Top 2 and Top 4 from what I understand (2 of the top 5).

For, reference Lemmy.ml has 35k users, Lemmy.world around 20-25k ish, shitjustworks 10k, beehaw 10k. Then theres a lot of small lemmy instances beehaw hasn’t banned which go from a few hundred to a few thousand. The numbers might be slightly off since the user count tools are having issues on the lemmy side of things.

I’ll be honest, it’s weird to not allow downvotes but be on a federated site. Idk if I’m weird or if that’s just me tho. Like if you go to beehaw from another Lemmy instance you can downvote them.

Beehaw hasn’t really defederated from Lemmy. They still allow the biggest Lemmy instance and a lot of smaller Lemmy instances. What they have done is block 2 of the top 4 (hard to count since the user count tools are having issues here on the lemmy side)…

I first had worries about Lemmy and thought about kbin first, but seems the reddit migration has managed to make the issues minor in my case. There’s less issues. So, I’m surprised Beehaw had that amount of trolling.

Really? The tone in Beehaw is obvious yeah, but I thought the tone for kbin and lemmy was slightly similar – unless things really changed in the few days when federation was down (which is possible)

You might be. Beehaw blocks the most places from what I have seen. And per the discussion on shitjustworks, it seems the mod tool they want is to allow their users to post on other instances but not let outside users post on theirs.

For reference, Beehaw blocks almost 400 instances.

I’m assuming most are troublesome communities and it makes sense. But, I do worry they are block happy. I wish they at least had reasons listed or a megathread with reasons for transparency.

Yeah, I personally would understand the decision more if they at least tried having mods. They don’t. Their mods are just the admins. The admins are also the only ones able to make communities (magazines for kbin viewers) on beehaw.