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One thing I'm not clear about is the impact my home instance has on me. I joined lemmy.world and am currently using the connect for lemmy app. I know when I sort by Local it will only show me posts from lemmy.world, but beyond that are there any things to keep in mind?

I have read that lemmy.world has been hit by DDoS attacks but I've never had any problem using connect for Lemmy during those times as far as I know.

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[–] simple@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's because Beehaw defederated with most of the popular instances. Their communities still exist but none of the posts will come through to Lemmy World and vice versa, they can't see any new posts in Lemmy World communities.

IMO just stick to lemmy world and avoid beehaw communities (they're effectively dead for us) unless you want a "safe space" and live in the small Beehaw instance.

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a little harsh. I was here before beehaw defederated, and the content over there was high quality. Some bad actors spoiled it for everyone over here.

Hopefully they'll be back once the mod tools for cross-instance content management improve.

No need to sneer at them, it was a community decision. You can still interact wth the content on most other instances than .world and .itjust.works

[–] damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they were being a bit unreasonable in expecting everyone else to have verified sign-ups. It would be prohibitively difficult to verify all of the users especially with the recent influx.

If the other instances had tried that I think Lemmy would be dead on arrival. It would have taken so long to verify each user that most people would have got bored by the time they're approval came through and would never have even bothered signing in.

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, it's not that I find a reason in particular to dislike Beehaw users or their content, I just really got tired of weirdly aggressive philosophies regarding content discoverability and community sizes on Mastodon, and I can't have that shit started again and I know there's ways that it might once people get defensive either way.

Hearing Beehaw start to go down the path, just makes me mentally check out and choose to ignore them. I'm sure that whatever or another can be said of them, but my statements will be "oh, those don't matter anymore, join these other ones and leave them alone" and, honestly, it's probably the effect of the Beehaw admins intended as well.

[–] djc0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I still see some posts at eg gaming@beehaw.org from lemmy.world. And comments and votes. But maybe 20% of what I see if I’m looking from my beehaw account.

Could these be crossposts and comments from non-beehaw users? Ie stuff that hasn’t originated at beehaw?

[–] simple@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

So basically anything posted in defederated communities won't be federated. So someone on Lemmy World posting on Beehaw communities can only be seen by Lemmy World users and nobody else. Everyone should find alternative communities instead.