I don’t get what the problem is? Anyone can elaborate.
Edit: Thank you all for shedding more light on this topic. I’ve never really used flatpak but I do understand it better now!
I don’t get what the problem is? Anyone can elaborate.
Edit: Thank you all for shedding more light on this topic. I’ve never really used flatpak but I do understand it better now!
lemmy.world has had a handful of back to back queerphobic trolls spamming hate across multiple groups and instances.
They would get banned and come right back.
The reason they were able to do that is because of the open signups on lemmy.world.
Beehaw is an instance that takes protecting their members as their highest goal. They value it significantly more than wide federation.
And so they blocked lemmy.world, as it was a source of bigotry towards their members, and there were no other moderation tools available to them to resolve the issue.
What instances don’t have open signup? I’m on kbin but also signed up to sh.itjust.works and another instance because I had no idea what I was doing. The only difference was that one of them required that I write a quick blurb on why I wanted to join. What does a closed signup look like?
It’s not just the open sign ups, it’s the combination of multiple factors
@beefcat Alas that used to be contained to reddit. But since reddit is having drama. They’re probably trolling and or trying to ruin other platforms who just want to tell puns that aren’t half bad, but are more full bad. Unfortunately the developers or communities didn’t see a need to have features to do something about them. Part of the sad thing, is these twits wonder why reddit didn’t tolerate them their either.
@0485919158191 @ada @levochemist
How long does it take, do you know, for Beehaw to approve sign ups? I signed up 3 days ago and have yet to receive a verification email. I originally signed up on lemmy.ml and received verification in about an hour, but ended up deleting that account do that instance’s… problematic nature. I’m on sh.itjust.works right now, but would rather be on Beehaw.
I like how lemmy.ml is the ‘problematic’ community and not beehaw that not even a week in lemmy’s surge is trying to enforce it’s ethics on the whole lemmy community by de-federating newer instances.
Ethics you actually don’t meet by the way, they just don’t bother to ‘officially’ reject people they don’t approve, it’s on their FAQ.
New to all this, does that mean lemmy.world accounts can no longer even see any beehive content?
Yep. Though it’s not intended to be a permanent change as I understand it
Hopefully, as these federations mature, community/magazine moderators get greater ability to moderate content.
And these sorts of defederations may also serve as a “hey, do something about this” smack to the defederated instances. Provided that lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works don’t actually want to have trolls like that among their users they could implement mechanisms to make it harder for them to sign up.
If someone wants to deliberately run a 4chan-like free-for-all instance, that’s fine, but I expect nobody’s going to want to federate with it.