• LlamaSutra@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    To be honest I had no idea that people from this instance were doing it until one troll post bragging about getting us banned from Beehaw and explained how he did it, along with a comic book supervillian diatribe about how the Fediverse isn’t safe and long live Reddit.

    • wesley_cook@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Wait so someone did it intentionally??? I had no idea that someone was trying to get it defederated on purpose

      That makes me a lot more sense now

    • Red Army Dog Cooper@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      just a heads up, in the past beehaw has accused other instances of brigadding, and being bigots over disagreements that had nothing to do with the such (I know that becuase that was story 3 and 4 respectivly) there is a decent chance that they have done the blocking over a difrent reason (like to exert a level of control) and then back justified. I will be really honest, do not take the beehaw admins word at face value for anything

      • racer983@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I saw the same post the comment above is referring to and their description is accurate. And I also saw the offending post they put on beehaw. Some low effort troll homophobic thing. Their posts on both beehaw and sh.itjust.works were both quickly down voted and removed I think, because I couldn’t find either again shortly after I first saw it.

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          1 year ago

          Damn… Yeah, to be honest, it makes me understand things from beehaw’s perspective quite a bit, then.

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      1 year ago

      This will keep happening.

      I’ve seen DDOS attacks launched between rival guilds of MMORPGs. People will find an excuse to be assholes to each other online.

      The defederation of Beehaw.org to protect itself is a feature, not a bug. It sucks for the people involved, but I’m liking how the community has managed to come together in light of the actions. Defederating works: it allowed Beehaw.org to ban the trolls and continue their community discussions.

      And I say this as a lemmy.world user who was (and still am) cut-off from Beehaw.org. I’d like to get access restored there ASAP, but you know, I’m glad to see that the new tools available here on the Fediverse that didn’t exist in Reddit-world.

      Future attacks, invasions, and other such rivalries between communities will only grow bigger, harsher, more serious as time goes on. Consider this whole situation to be just a test of the times to come.

    • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Who gets so weirdly defensive and territorial over a website? Not even their own one at that? I loved spending time on Reddit but I can’t imagine finding other website and deliberately trying to make them a shittier place because I like Reddit.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not a massive fan of the name to be attached to my name, but the admin is such a cool upstanding dude and I like their policies that I don’t think I’ll go anywhere else and I’ll just stick this out and hope the “default” communities end up elsewhere because of this defederation. Beehaw have gave me the same pretentious vibes that spez had given me to do with Reddit. So good riddance for now I guess.

        I want away with people with superiority complex and gatekeeping tendencies. The internet should be free so we can expose the shitheads and oust them for the awful people they are, as individuals, and not generalising everyone around them just because they happen to live on the same street as the loud arsehole. We hate him too.