Hand them over to Elon Musk, so he can sink them

This is why I was suggesting you would have conditions to apply these bans, for example that other admins you trust are applying them

I think that should happen too

I think that’s a simplistic view. We’ve seen people defederating or asking for defederation for the existence of a single community. Just because instance admins have different ideas of what’s tolerable doesn’t mean the rest of the communities at large can’t collaborate.

The point where admins would have settings to accept/review ban lists was to reduce the risk of abuse

Can you choose which ones to apply and which ones not to?

lol I wouldn’t be surprised if it did and I didn’t know about it

It does surprise me because from what I’ve been reading the mod tools and ban capabilities were… limited

It’s a known bug, and it’s being worked on

Jerboa doesn’t take me to the comment directly but I’m going to assume this is the one lol

It was part of the annoucement .

After reading many comments I think my ‘outrage’ came, as it often does, from misunderstanding. Also, because when singing up most people say don’t overthink it, it doesn’t matter much. But now I’m seeing that it does matter to sign up for an instance with like minded people. As I see more of what seems to be the drive behind beehaw, it doesn’t really resonate with what I want, but that doesn’t make it wrong. It is ok for that group of people. We just need to make sure that communities of general interest that were taking off there because they were one of the largest instances are also present in a more open and accessible place, so we are not restricted to collaborate.

I see your point. I was seeing it from the perspective of discouraging stuff to be shared on other communities because it’s already in beehaw, but you’d need an account to participate there.

But I see what you say, allowing them to contribute to other instances isn’t bad even if they don’t allow those instances to contribute on theirs.

But that is an issue too. Why would other instances allow them full access while being prevented from collaborating in theirs ?

Reading through the comments in their post I’m losing the little sympathy I was feeling. It looks like the moderation tool they are hoping for is one that allows their users to access other communities while preventing the other communities from accessing beehaw. That feels shortsighted and selfish, and I would think most communities on that end on the block would block them reciprocally.

I think it’s also important to note, beehaw has the largest amount of blocked communities

https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

Yeah. In the explanation they say that four people are taking the load of moderation, that can’t scale. If the rest of the communities keep growing they may end up isolating themselves for not being able to adapt.