Beehaw Support

I think federation is overrated. How difficult is it to have multiple accounts these days?

It will be very hard to vet users from other instances properly in the Fediverse. Even if tools exist to do better validation (like, for instance, allowing an instance to validate that the subscriber from another instance has a valid email address), someone with ill intent can figure out a way around that.

I think that the Fediverse could use an identity verification service, but fear that's what Facebook is trying to be.

You're expressing one of the most frequent frustrations people bring up with the federated model.

To my mind, it's a matter of individual user expectations. There are a lot of people for whom centralized social media became "the internet," and the idea that websites were ever intended for anything but passive external linking to individual pages is foreign. This is not a universally shared starting point.

I have a .world account for my local community and, at this point, all non-Beehaw fediverse stuff. I'm still on a few message-board sites for niche topics that Reddit's generalization made difficult to get useful information about among the detritus.

Beehaw and .world serve different needs, so I view having multiple Lemmy accounts as being as reasonable as having a different login for my natural gas company than my electricity supplier.

The open signups is the sticking point. Even at the point of de-federation, Lemmy.world was a respectable community and still is today (even if it's shitpost city for beans atm)

The admins here aim to curate an explicitly friendly space to chat, and they intend to achieve that through extensive manual review. They've also posted an article about how if you let even a small amount of toxicity through, you quickly lose your nicest and friendliest members of the community.

I think what they are waiting on is A) a more granular ability to allowlist or blocklist communities on specific servers, B) enforce a manually reviewed application for users on other instances to post on Beehaw, C) Allow only one-way posting but two-way reading.

See this comment and see Lemmy isues #3255 and #3275

I think that begging the mods for refederation will be a common occurrence in the newly emerging fediverse, but I think we'll all just have to get used to the idea that the fediverse is about voluntary communities and you'll have to forge your own path using multiple accounts/etc. The entire point of defederation is that Beehaw doesn't want certain communities or people with certain viewpoints congregating here - that's the choice of this community and the use of multiple accounts does get around that but it's just what will have to be done if you want to be someone associated with defederated communities.