• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    12 days ago

    What on earth did sh.itjust.works do?

    I saw that Beehaw defederated from them, and it’s just confusing to me. There’s all kinds of weird nonsense coming from lemmy.world, that defederation makes complete sense to me, but… what did sh.itjust.works do? They seem fine.

    What are the toxic communities? Did I just miss them so far? I really don’t understand.

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.org
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      12 days ago

      For Beehaw, it’s for historical reasons. In June 2023 LW and SJW became the largest instances, and hence had the largest number of toxic users. Beehaw estimated that the moderators were not doing enough to moderate those users, thus defederated.

      If you look at Beehaw, they are still on 0.18.3. It’s unclear whether they will switch to another software like Piefed or Mbin, but they don’t want to update to the latest Lemmy versions.

      Being defederated from LW and SJW cuts them from most of the users and content, but they seem happy that way.

      • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        Beehaw is pretty much whatever that one admin wants. They post constantly and want to get rid of anything they don’t personally like.

    • PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works
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      12 days ago

      My understanding is that we had open registration and that led to a very small amount of spam posters. Apparently we were a moderation concern.

      I’ve certainly downvoted people in this instance but I can’t remember the last time something particularly egregious occurred