• savoy
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    Defederation should honestly be saved for the worst of the worst. What beehaw has done just doesn’t really make much sense. They’re intentionally blocking themselves off from the rest of the fedi, and I don’t think it’s because of trolls/spam. It seems like any comments that don’t fit the culture they want are seen as a reason to defederate.

    I mean that’s fine for them, they can stay in their bubble, but it means their users could potentially miss on a lot of content as well; it honestly hurts them more than the rest of us. And the longer they stay that way, the more they’ll suffer, unfortunately.

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      It seems like any comments that don’t fit the culture they want are seen as a reason to defederate.

      This is the main reason I didn’t create my account there. I like reading discussions in political topics, and beehaw seems to have a heavy aversion to that.

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        It’s that hypocritical stance of refusing to be political/choose a side yet not realizing that is also inherently political. Time will tell if their users are fine in a moated community or if it seriously hampers its growth to devolving into an echo chamber

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          Hard agree on this. And oftentimes being in the “I’m apolitical” camp only favors the opressing side. Nothing in human society can be fully unbiased or 100% neutral

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      Beehaw sounded to me like a hyper controlled instance which is partially why I didn’t sign up there