I’m just curious if it is on the table at some point. I only see a small slice of beehaw when I’m logged in but the active participation feels like it is on a downward trend. Like, there appears to be ~700 on here right now. I know numbers aren’t everything, but overall engagement is important. I’m on several instances with different accounts. I’ve been gravitating towards my .world account because it is so active. I get a grouchy or rude reply still from time to time, but it seems like most of the trolls have gone or been removed. That instance seems to be maturing fast and growing some personality all its own. The server seems constantly stressed, but Ruud is holding it together. The moderation seems much more in check now too. That’s just my perspective. I’d like to see everyone come together again, but I am just one user.
I think federation is overrated. How difficult is it to have multiple accounts these days?
It will be very hard to vet users from other instances properly in the Fediverse. Even if tools exist to do better validation (like, for instance, allowing an instance to validate that the subscriber from another instance has a valid email address), someone with ill intent can figure out a way around that.
I think that the Fediverse could use an identity verification service, but fear that’s what Facebook is trying to be.
I’ve got a Beehaw account and one on Blahaj to see the defederated instances. I’m finding the interactions on Beehaw communities much more engaging than in other places. And I’m enjoying the fact the Lemmy allows the customization of your experience. So Beehaw can choose to federate with what they want. And other servers can do the same.
I don’t have any issues with having a few accounts. I’ve got more than one email account for different purposes (spam, banking, job applications and personal), and it’s not difficult to maintain accounts on different Lemmy servers. There’s nothing stopping you from making an account on every server.
I’m just one person too, whose opinion isn’t important. I don’t endlessly scrolling all day, so I’m not “running out” of new content. What I have noticed: There’s a noticeable quality improvement within Beehaw. And I appreciate that. So I personally don’t have a strong preference on what the admins/mods do about refederating.
Wefwef’s multi account feature has been incredible. We don’t have “Multi”’s yet / alternative subscription feeds, but there’s nothing stopping me from just spinning up a new acct for specific… interests.
I have also noticed the quality of beehaw - writing why you want an account / checking your email is such a small barrier to entry, and yet it has such an impact.
There is a very fine balance of ease of access / community size / community quality, and I think beehaw is there. I feel like I could get to know people / usernames here, which would never happen on r-dit.
I totally agree about the barrier to entry. It wasn’t hard to write my little application, and I wouldn’t have bothered if I hadn’t already looked through and decided that the content seemed high enough quality to make it worth 3 minutes of my life. But it will help keep the quality high which is the attraction for me. I can jump to another instance and look at beans, and I can jump over here and not look at beans. It’s all good to me right now. It would make more sense to refederate if they could block specific communities…like the ones that are full of beans :D
I think that begging the mods for refederation will be a common occurrence in the newly emerging fediverse, but I think we’ll all just have to get used to the idea that the fediverse is about voluntary communities and you’ll have to forge your own path using multiple accounts/etc. The entire point of defederation is that Beehaw doesn’t want certain communities or people with certain viewpoints congregating here - that’s the choice of this community and the use of multiple accounts does get around that but it’s just what will have to be done if you want to be someone associated with defederated communities.
I think we’ll all just have to get used to the idea that the fediverse is about voluntary communities
So many people have only ever known the Internet and web as a handful of centralized walled gardens that have a financial interest in keeping you locked in and scrolling. So when you have a system that is explicitly built in a federated manner, explicitly built to give communities the ability to choose who and how they interact with others, and you don’t have algorithmically generated content, those people are just lost.
