I don’t think you guys cared when you defederated from the rest of the fediverse and turned up your nose at everyone else. I’m not sure why you care now. You guys go and do your thing, but I don’t think you’re very relevant to the fediverse.

You speak very vaguely, and I don’t think you’re being fully honest with your reasoning, but by this point, I don’t think it really matters.

I think the fediverse would be better off without Beehaw, so yeah, get off Lemmy and go build your own platform by yourself. I wish you the absolute best of luck, and thank you in advance for taking all the worst kind of people off the fediverse with you.

Why do you care what other instances think about it? I’m honestly asking and expecting an answer here. This isn’t a sassy question.

You built a wall and now you’re asking people outside of that wall what it feels for you to leave. Well, I’d care if I could see what’s inside the wall, but I can’t. I tried subscribing and it was impossible.

So why do you care what people outside of your wall think? Again, I expect an answer here.

While I would understand your reasoning for doing so, I would be disappointed to see it happen. There’s decent discussions on Beehaw that I enjoy taking part in, however if you guys decided to defederate or switch to a different platform entirely, I doubt that I would make another account somewhere else to follow. I like Beehaw’s content, but I have enough accounts to keep track of these days after everything split from Reddit, so it would ultimately be a loss for me.

I’m not sure if this is a commonly-held opinion for those of us outside of Beehaw, though.

I’m subbed to some communities on Beehaw and I would miss them. But not enough to make an account on Beehaw to get them back.

I always got death-cult vibes from beehaw. I expected their flame-out to be a lot more dramatig than this, though.

That would be great

We decided that our ‘Northern Star’ or guiding principle would culminate as ‘Be Nice’ with purposefully vague/flexible interpretations. Our overall goal is to provide a safe space to disenfranchised persons.

Oh look, someone failed to absorb one of the lessons of Letter from Birmingham jail

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

Have you considered making the internet a better place and simply deleting it?

the only thing of substance are links to your websites and discord

Ah okay so this is what this is about. Very creative way to peddle your shit.

Defederating Beehaw would not only weaken it as an instance, but remove its positive influence from the wider fediverse. The big platforms wield so much power and influence and money, the smaller upstarts need to connect as much as possible to stand a chance at relevance as a credible alternative. We’re all better together. I really hope you reconsider.

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Do what you need to do, but it’ll mean less traffic on overall - meaning people who are actively pro-ActivityPub will be switching and using other accounts more. I would probably be out shopping for a different node at that point. But I also fully understand the reasons why one would want to defederate.

My reaction in a word:

Beesnuts

Beehaw and Lemmyworld are two instances I do not like, with their weird stances on federation, and especially LW’s pro-Zionist/Israel/NATO politics.

Beehaw should have not done so much defederation, which left a bad taste in my mouth, as one of the core people that helped build, moderate, de-raid and shape up Lemmy in the past 3 years to the proper Reddit alternative it has become today. I moderate privacy and technology at lemmy.ml instance, and was solely responsible for r/piracy subreddit migration to Lemmy.

Looking forward to Tildes way of doing things is a red flag to me. I would use Reddit before using Tildes.