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This is just my anecdotal experience as an outsider, but the volume of nonsense coming out of lemmy.world dwarfs anything coming out of any other server. Three separate times this week I have had groups of people from there aggressively telling me some kind of total gibberish. I thought about defederating rss.ponder.cat from them, just on general principle to encourage people to go elsewhere and improve the overall cultural quality of the network.

I can't speak to sh.itjust.works, to me they seem fine. lemm.ee I've never had an issue with. lemmy.world is just a nonstop fountain of drama and ridiculousness, though. Deliberately hosting and making a home base for UniversalMonk for months, for example, I will never understand.

If I recall correctly, the main reason we defederated from those instances at the time was the sheer volume of spam we were getting from users of those instances. While we do sometimes have a need to moderate users from larger instances like Lemm.ee, it's not currently at a volume that we can't handle, from what I've seen.

As always, as a moderator of several Beehaw communities, I would encourage you to report any comment or post you see that isn't up to the standards of Beehaw.org. Don't assume someone else is going to do it, and don't assume that moderators are always watching every interactions closely - we're all doing this in our free time and have other responsibilities. We may not take action on every report - sometimes things are borderline or the community has already pushed back and we feel like things are in hand - but I guarantee someone is looking at and considering every one.

I'm disappointed to see people trashing the reputation of lemm.ee here.

To borrow a phrase from my youngers, @sunaurus@lemm.ee is a GOATed Chad of an instance Admin and I will non-violently fight for them. They do a good job of removing problematic content while maintaining an instance that allows adults to make their own decisions.

We're in the Wild West/Gold Rush of Federation and it will come with a lot of growing as we learn together. Moderating different perspectives is an incredibly difficult balance to strike, and no one is perfect but I trust the Lemm.ee team.

If Discuss.online has open signups I definitely am of the opinion that we should defederate from them. Not really much point in having human-verified signups if we federate with instances that allow people to make as many accounts as they could ever want.

lemm.ee is centralized in Cloudflare’s exclusive walled garden. I can’t speek for the admins but it’s antithetical to the purpose of the fedi to advocate for federation with centralized hosts.

And there are consequences. If an image is posted to Lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, or discuss.online, those of us who are excluded from Cloudflare cannot see it. A non-CF node federating to a CF node creates a broken network.

Have to say, I joined Beehaw after Lemmy.world became unusable, largely due to federation with sh.itjust.works which is hosting users like Early To Risa and the other rightwing propagandists. It ruins the ability to browse without a login, and those propagandists drown out real content to the point that people quit posting it.

Notice how low quality everything is on sh.itjust.works? Its all fascists and people who tolerate them.

Agreed. Though this might have been better in !support@beehaw.org?