Title says it all!? I’m a reddit refuge and picked this instance because it’s A) Canadian (I’m in MN, so consider myself an honorary Canadian), and B) The clean energy thing.

Applied to Beehaw but never heard back. Dittos on Lemmy.ML!

So hoping this is going to be a great “home” away from Reddit for the foreseeable future.

Cheers, and well done on the instance, admins!

  • MoistBalls@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Since you can subscribe to stuff even from other “instances”? Does it really matter which one you sign up on?

    It’s not like I’m Communist or Fascist so the major players should probably be in contact with each other anyways.

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      1 year ago

      Well, yes and no. For instance (no pun intended), the site for your home instance is a page you’re going to be landing on a lot, so you’d want one which loads smoothly and reliably for you, and this often depends on your instance’s server infrastructure. Some larger instances are already being overloaded. Another concern is probably stability and longevity, since the fate of your account is tied to the instance that hosts it, so you’d have to choose one you trust. And the last one is moderation: you don’t want to join an instance where the admin is known for being shady and randomly banning people or blocking lots of instances. That being said, so long you choose a reliable instance it doesn’t matter too much which one it is.

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      Instances can de-federate each other so you can’t see communities. Beehaw just de-federated us due to the large influx of users containing some people trolling their communities. The moderation tools are not great right now and so rather than dealing with the influx of trolls they de-federated this instance.

      So you can’t see Beehaw communities and their users cannot see your posts if you post on another instance’s community.

      This lets instances decide who they want to associate with and is a good thing for the long-term health of social media. You don’t want to be a part of instances that associate with terrorist instances or other shady things, de-federation is the tool to keep that from happening.

      In general, any instance is as good as any other but as time goes on there may be a few different ‘islands’ of instances that are functionally separate from each other and you’ll either choose one or use multiple accounts to swap between them.

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        1 year ago

        But I subscribed to some Beehaw communities from this account, so should I make a Beehaw account or just hold out hope that they re-federate us?

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          They released an update yesterday that they reached out to speak with the sh.itjust.works admin team and they’re confident that they will be able to re-federate with us going forward once they’re able to get some more moderation tools to handle the larger volume.

          They didn’t provide a timeline however. It’s up to you if you want to wait for re-federation or make another account on Beehaw.

          Here’s the post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/147756