• dragontamer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hmm.

    Consider that Beehaw is more comparable to a major subreddit already. Lets say /r/wsb was having issues with new trolling users and they decide to go private for a week to preserve their culture (and have done in the past before).

    Now instead of ā€œjustā€ one subreddit making that decision, the entire alignment of Beehaw (including all their communities) made a decision in one fell swoop.

    No matter how you look at it, this is better for the Beehaw community already than what weā€™ve had in Reddit. And yeah, it sucks for us here in lemmy.world to not talk with Beehaw and for those users to not talk with us for now, but like /r/wsb, thereā€™s no reason why this has to be a permanent defederation. They can refederate after this ā€œReddit Boomā€ and when traffic slows down maybe a week or two from now and their moderators/admins can keep up with the new influx of users.


    From the perspective of ā€œWhat Lemmy-software needs to doā€, perhaps a ā€œsuper-moderatorā€, below Admin but above moderator who has access to user-bans and/or user-vetting is whatā€™s needed for this community. That way, Beehaw and Lemmy.world can re-federate, Beehaw can appoint community leaders who can perform user-vetting (Gmail-like invitations), but Beehaw admins remain the admins. And they get to have tight control over poorly-behaving users from other instances (ie: blocking them out entirely until theyā€™re vetted or invited in).