Just wondering tried to upvote and comment on beehaw kept gettin errors

  • j4k3@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah. They need to come back too. Most of the trolls went back to being reddiots. The participation there has been on a hard downward trend since defederating. There are less than 500 per day on there now most days.

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      But mod tools have not improved. Anyone could technically still join lemmy.world and troll them which was one of their concerns.

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        Doesn’t matter if they’re dead and their core supporters get discouraged. There are a lot of posts that are just by a dozen or so people with little engagement. That is not sustainable.

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          Beehaw’s been around for like 2 years. They’ve specifically designed their instance to be a small, heavily moderated community. If anything, the massive growth they were getting a month ago was unsustainable with their existing ethos.

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          Yes it is. I’ve been on forums with ~20 or so active people and it lasted for years.

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              It doesn’t have to be active like reddit right? Or even like Lemmy was around the blackouts? A community can remain active even without federating with lemmy.world. People can still sign up for Beehaw and see their posts from other instances (like feddit.uk or the canadian one).

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                I’m simply commenting about the sustainability and participation. It speaks for itself. I like the community there, but it has gotten less and less interesting as the participation has fallen. I don’t see that changing.

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                  Why don’t you start an account there and help them out, or start an account on an instance that is federated with both if you prefer the community there? I personally disagree with their moderation and don’t like the kind of users they approve of, so I’m happy seeing less of them around.

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                    Because they won’t let you. And I’m not writing a full size letter just to join a forum. Is someone really that desperate to join Beehaw?

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        Exactly, if an instance loves to censor others so much they should deal with the consequences of less interaction and visibility. lemmy.ml is also dropping off my feed because their devs have beef with Kbin’s dev and they blocked interactions from all Kbin instances.

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          I was really surprised to hear this, so I dug a little deeper. It looks like an honest mistake.

          Here’s what their admin said:

          We unintionally did until about 8 hours ago.

          Lemmy.ml has a ton of bot crawlers in its nginx logs spam fetching posts, so I added the bots to an nginx block. Turns out one called kbinbot wasn’t actually a crawling bot, but their federation requester.

          If we don’t respond quickly, its because we have notification backlogs that are months long at this point.

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            That’s relieving to hear. I know the backstory of Kbin is that Ernest was originally a Lemmy contributor but he and Lemmy’s devs got into a disagreement about politics, so he went to start his own project instead. There was no communication about the block from Lemmy’s devs for a while so a lot of people, including me, theorized that it was related to the conflict.