This is more of a question for the admins, but this can certainly be a more open discussion.
Per this thread, beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works two months ago, around the time that the reddit exodus was happening. Lemmy was blowing up, those instances had an open sign-up policy, and this meant that admins of other instances (like Beehaw) that wanted to heavily moderate their communities became quickly overwhelmed with the number of users from these two instances. Beehaw defederated to make the workload more realistic.
Two months on, I’m wondering if this defederation is still necessary. It seems to me that Lemmy overall has slowed down a lot, and maybe the flow of users from these outside servers would not be as overwhelming as it was before? I respect the decision of the admins one way or the other - I know that the lack of moderation tools was another factor in this decision. I’m just curious if this is something that has been considered recently?
Who’s demanding anything? Surely we can discuss it amongst ourselves as a community?
There is a lot of chatter that I’ve seen in other instances where Beehaw’s stance ranckled a number of folks.
I certainly could have been more careful in my language, this post is not demanding. However, I frequently see people trying to petition for changes to instances. It gets pretty exhausting. This is not a beehaw thing, but happens in every instance I’ve engaged with. It’s especially tiring when there is a solution already available. That solution being that it is very easy to engage with other instances. Let beehaw be beehaw. Let lemmy world be lemmy world. Maybe I’m missing the point of the federated internet, but to me it’s a feature that different instances federate with different groups. I don’t want it all in one place.