From my understanding federation is having services be able to communicate with one another. If my understanding is wrong can you correct me or explain it further.

Also what is going on with defederating lemmy?

Thx

    • alyaza [they/she] ( alyaza@beehaw.org ) English
      11·
      3 years ago

      Or in this case, it is an ego driven crybaby fest because someone got jealous other instances got big.

      i don’t see how this would logically follow—wouldn’t our course of action if we wanted this to be something like opening registrations? we very much don’t have a shortage of people clamoring to get in here—our backlog is 4,500—and if anything we’re worried about too many people, not too few. we simply have no interest in growth at all costs, and we were… honestly pretty fine with being a 700-user instance before the big blowup here. certainly it’d have been less stressful, lol

      • Melpomene ( Melpomene@kbin.social ) 
        8·
        3 years ago

        Yeah, that’s how I took it too. Beehaw never pretended to be anything but a close knit community that prides itself on positive interactions. Defederating from larger instances made sense for them because they couldn’t maintain that vibe given the current state of Lemmy. Hopefully, as these platforms mature, they can reconsider.