What defederating would mean:

  • We won’t see beehaw.org posts/comments on other instances.

Pros:

  • There is less confusion, you can’t respond to a beehaw.org user, thinking they will be able to see your response when in reality they cannot.

Cons:

  • We won’t be able to see any beehaw.org comments/posts on other instances, so we will miss out on some comment threads and posts. It could be good to be able to see them and interact with the other users there even though beehaw.org users won’t see any of our content.

Summary

Overall, I think it is better not to defederate, but simply unsubscribe from all of their communities (and as we no longer get posts from their instance, with time these will cease to appear on our ‘front page’).

beehaw.org users already can’t see our posts/comments anywhere so it’s not like defederating would change their experience in any way, so it wouldn’t really be retaliation and would just limit the content available to lemmy.world users.

What do you think?

  • Aurix@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    75
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Please don’t defederate. Just have it reserved for actually intentionally malicious or negligent instances.

    • girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      My choice as well. Take this with a grain of salt tho as I’m new to lemmy so have little history to go on.

      I just like it here a lot, and I’m saddened to think that some of my fellow newcomers have crossed the line.