Since my last post yesterday, lemmy.world has added over 3000 new users, bringing the total user count to 22000 today (source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list). It firmly holds the position of the second-largest lemmy instance, passing beehaw.org by a large margin of 10000 users.
In other news, beehaw has defederated from lemmy.world a few hours ago. How does the third-largest instance only have 4 ~~mods~~ admins for its 12000 users?!
So much going on!
I find it very confusing that they are defederating. Beehaw users can choose to watch local content only. Why damage the federation in this crucial time?
I am not sure I follow. If you can be in beehaw, choose to only watch your's instance, and engaging in other instances only when you want - what'd the downside? I feel like I am missing something.
People outside beehaw can still comment there and people inside beehaw would still see these comments.
This posts explains better how it works https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/24341/How-the-beehaw-defederation-affects-us
Wait, I don't think thats right. Unless I am missunderstanding it?
Now that BeeHaw has defederated, they won't see any comments from lemmy.world/shitjustworks users in their own communities.
If they kept federation, those users would be able to comment on beehaw.org communities.
Sorry for the confusion, I meant that, if they didn't defederate and their users just kept on their 'local' feed, they'd still see outside comments.