lemmy.world has had a handful of back to back queerphobic trolls spamming hate across multiple groups and instances.
They would get banned and come right back.
The reason they were able to do that is because of the open signups on lemmy.world.
Beehaw is an instance that takes protecting their members as their highest goal. They value it significantly more than wide federation.
And so they blocked lemmy.world, as it was a source of bigotry towards their members, and there were no other moderation tools available to them to resolve the issue.
To clarify a minor point, beehaw isn't new. It was established in Feb 2022, and it's been thriving with a relatively small community up until this months crazy growth. They're not so much finding their feet as trying to maintain an existing communities safety in the face of rapid growth.
Not at all. They've been one of the largest instances on lemmy for over a year, and they federated widely during that time. The issue is that lemmy is still a relatively immature platform in terms of moderation features. The workload on their moderators to sustain federation and community safety with rudimentary moderation tools whilst the threadiverse population increases in size over 1000 fold is incredibly high.
So until moderation tools improve, their options are
Give up their safety focus. We can assume that's not going to happen
Find more admins, which is easier said than done, because at this point in time, one of the lacking moderation features is the ability to add instance moderators. Right now, the only instance elevated role is admin. You have to be able to trust the new admin with the keys to everything.
Defederate with instances that threaten their high value on community safety
There are closed signups (no new folk at all), open signups (everyone can join instantly) and limited sign ups (you have to apply to join and be approved by an admin)
Everything you've said here though is very different to your previous comment about them not understanding federation.
This reply is closer to the truth. They understand it quite fine, but have different priorities, and those priorities probably weren't clear to a lot of their new members
What are people's thoughts on shoes made to fix pronation? I used to have a pair of new balances that were supposed to help with pronation, but now that I have a new pair of shoes, my pronation has gotten worse again....
You're more than welcome to create any communities you like. The theme of queer folk and allies is for members of the instance, not on what they in turn talk about. The goal is to have a place where queer folk can exist safely. That doesn't mean only talking about queer stuff though :)
Also is there a way to donate to blahaj.zone server costs? I didn’t see anything under /about but I just thought I’d ask!
An instance focused on anti trans politics would be defederated from us because of the harm it would bring to members of this community. An instance being an ongoing source of harm to queer and gender diverse folk, or any other form of marginalised group is what matters when I make the call to defederate from another instance.
I mean, if we expected lemmy to grow in to an instance 3 times the size of blahaj.zone, we'd have done things differently from the start, but suffice to say, we didn't expect Blahaj Lemmy to be anything but a bit of a sandbox for me to play with, so we made some initial choices that didn't scale well with sudden unexpected growth :)
You aren't leeching off of anyone. This is one of the reasons we hesitate to seek donations.
This instance and blahaj.zone are run by two trans women who are fortunate enough to be able to afford it. We do it, because providing a space for queer and trans diverse folk and their allies, where they can let their guards down a little, is super important to us. We are privileged enough to be able to make that happen.
Now, if you're in a situation where you happen to have money burning holes in your pockets, then we're open to donations to offset some of the costs, but the last thing we want is for members of the very community we're trying to foster to feel like they're obligated to find a way of donating.
Basically, our ranking algorithms here don't take downvotes in to account, wherever they come from.
Which means that if you view "hot posts" in a community on our instance and then view the same community on another instance, the ranking of the posts might appear different if they count downvotes.
Not quite. Their downvotes don't influence our algorithms. So here on Blahaj Lemmy, their downvotes don't do anything even if their instance allows them to down vote.
First time posting on this site! Here's me relaxing with my blahaj! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
What’s the deal with lemmy.world and beehaw?
I don’t get what the problem is? Anyone can elaborate....
Lemmy Explorer: Search All Communities and Instances (lemmyverse.net)
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/717257...
Pronation correcting shoes?
What are people's thoughts on shoes made to fix pronation? I used to have a pair of new balances that were supposed to help with pronation, but now that I have a new pair of shoes, my pronation has gotten worse again....
Fediverse/Lemmy/Blahaj Etiquette
Hello all :3...
Long post about lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml
Wrote this as a comment, but was too long. Feel free to disagree....
Gender - Your space for research and deep discussion of gender related topics (feddit.uk)
Read the sidebar, for our moderation plan!
Trans women have no advantage in elite sport, new report finds (www.thepinknews.com)
refugee
hi friends! :)...
Today's downtime
Apologies to all for today's performance issues and downtime....
Blahaj Lemmy Funding
If I understand correctly, every instance is hosted on a private server - is it along with all the content like images, videos and text?...
Can we get downvotes enabled?
As much as I like the wholesomeness of the concepts of upvotes only, I'd love to downvote idiots on other instances