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they defederated from Lemmy.world and the other one, that’s it

they’re not closing themselves off; they made it very clear what they were doing and why; people keep just catastrophizing about it over and over for some reason

like they made it clear what they were doing and that it wouldn’t necessarily be permanent

What if they don’t want to scale?

I think the issue is that everyone’s so focused on seeing Lemmy as a “notReddit” that they outright get pissed when it doesn’t work the way they think it should (like Reddit except the parts they think are bad)

Lemmy (and kbin, and other similar platforms) and Reddit have the same niche, but they’re not the same thing

yeah, this is the weird thing; Beehaw’s reasonings are incredibly reasonable, and they’re not saying that the other parts of Lemmy aren’t good enough for them, which is what I think a lot of people are getting mad at

that and thinking that they’re entitled to access to Beehaw

Isn’t the whole point of the fediverse that you get to create and craft your experience for your community? There’s a really good reason defederating is a feature. I don’t get it, Beehaw decides to use the features of federation so now we: firstly become tribalistic (them vs us), and secondly decide to get angry? Like it or not, this is what you signed up for when you wanted federation.

Yes, exactly

like we’re not owed Beehaw’s cooperation; it’s their instance and if the users want to do this then that’s their perogative

Regardless, this is being blown out of proportion; Beehaw outright said that this was temporary

exactly this; the whole point was so instances could pick and choose who they wanted to interact with

I’d always heard that federation was good because if you get an instance infested with fascists, you (and everyone else who doesn’t want anything to do with them) can just cut that instance loose and let it drift away

I guess others thought different?