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Beehaw is defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, two large lemmy instances (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Shortcake@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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[–] tal@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uh.. that's unfortunate because many will just interpret it as federation being bad

IRC networks sometimes split. That didn't mean that they didn't generally stay together. Just that there were several major networks and a some isolated servers.

Usenet, as far as I know, generally remained one network, but occasionally saw Usenet Death Penalties.

XMPP supports federation, but organization, like businesses, exist that choose to use isolated XMPP servers.

[–] discodoubloon@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is where federation works anyway. Whoever comes here making posts from an account with more real life authority has a lot more to lose.

The trade off is some random exec could post here but since they are @exec that’s just them (obviously with a small grain of salt).

Federation just means that you can interact with as much or as little real life as you want. Some random Karen from Wichita, KS could call you weak on her fully fleshed out life story profile on some weird anonymous hamburger helper support group.

I think we do need to keep letting this play out though. It’s a very interesting experiment. There are definitely problems that need to be solved going forward but I think this place will be fine.

[–] Mounticat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's literally very early days. This is new, everyone here has just flooded in, and things need time to sort out and stabilise. There isn't a "system" that works for everyone yet. We'll see new instances getting popular, drama and controversy, and so forth. That's normal on the internet.

[–] SparkIT@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't know about UDP xD

I remember being on Usenet but at the time I think the average user would have little to no knowledge on how the system worked. You just had to choose a server after reading a few guides and there was no rush.

I like how federation works but right now people come here with different expectations and when it occurs in waves I think it's too stressful.