Created on June 1 of this year, lemmy.world quickly grew to 51k users and then blew up after reddit’s API debacle on July 1, doubling to a whopping 100k in just 9 days later!

      • Rhabuko@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        At the beginning of the great migration, they got overwhelmed by troll harras accounts, that used lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works open registration to evade bans. A lot of vile stuff got posted (like photos of murdered drag queens). They decided to defederate from both instances temporarily until they have better mod tools. I don’t think it was necessary but they do that they think is the best for their community. At that point Beehaw had some of the best communities through and many people were angry to get kicked out for something that wasn’t their fault.

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          1 year ago

          Nice thing about federation is that people have choices but I thought that move make them lose audiences and users.

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          1 year ago

          Oh wow… Thanks for the background info. I’ve seen people here saying negative things about beehaw, and didn’t know exactly why.

          • Altima NEO
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            1 year ago

            Its mostly because they defederated from lemmy.world. Meaning you dont really get to interact with them. You can see their posts and comments, they cant see yours.