this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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I read that they "defederated"... What does this mean? And why did they do this? And what are the consequences?

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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They defederated specifically with my instance (sh.itjust.works), and lemmy.world. What that means is that we can't access content on Beehaw, they can't access content on our instances.

If they see this post, my comment will be invisible to them. I can see their comments though, we haven't defederated with them.

They did this, as far as I understand it, out of a concern about our open user signups, where users don't need to be approved, they just need to not get banned. I have heard third-hand that there were some instances of hate-speech from users on our instances who quickly got banned (our instances don't allow that either, but it isn't pre-emptive), but they don't want the overhead and extra work for moderators.

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But can other people of different instances of these two interact with beehaw?

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tubbadu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Okay so it's like they "blocked" some instances... Thanks!