• qwamqwamqwam@sh.itjust.works
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      BeeHaw defederated all the major lemmy instances, pointing someone towards a website where they can’t interact with 80% of other users for reasons they likely don’t care about seems silly. If people want to make BeeHaw accounts once they learn about it, more power to them. But the average user is going to want as seamless of a transition as possible, and getting a crash course on defederation is the exact opposite of that.

      • ShittyKopper [they/them]@lemmy.w.on-t.work
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        all the major lemmy instances

        Read: just two instances who got really big, alongside literal tankies (but not dot-ml) and some fash

        Just in case you’re confused, most of their blocked instances are not even Lemmy instances but the general ActivityPub background radiation nobody really wants to see.

        Also, if just two instances get big enough to be “all the major lemmy instances” than isn’t that a problem of federation to begin with? Some admins need to learn to just shut registrations down jfc.

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          Whatever the ideal decentralized setup may be, the truth of the matter is that the current setup makes it significantly harder to surface content from instances outside of one’s own. I’d prefer to point people towards lemmy.world than to send them to a smaller server and have to field questions about why the servers they’re trying to join are out of date or possibly not available at all. As people get more comfortable with the setup, they can branch further out into the federation as they please.

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      Isn’t it the other way around? Beehaw users won’t see their content. They won’t be able to comment on beehaw content but they can still see it.

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        Technically they are also be able to comment on beehaw content, but then only their members can actually see that comment because their instance will have a copy of that content but beehaw won’t publish it to the other instances, so it doen’t make much sense to do so

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      i choose it out of 3 reasons:

      • does not defederate much as i recall
      • is i think a smaller of the bigger ones so it has content and the “user weight” gets distributed, so this is only a half reason
      • funne name

      But feel free te edit it, a mayor problem my text has it that it does not suggest apps and how to use them

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      Sh.it’s much better. You can make your own communities and have more access to the rest of the instances.