Now that I (I think) understand federation I was going to unblock the beehaw communities since I should still be able to vote and comment on them but I can’t find them now.

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you mean the list of communities blocked by a server, go to the home page of that server (for example https://lemmy.world/), scroll down all the way to the bottom and find the “Instances” link on the bottom-right of the page.

    If you mean those you blocked, go into your user settings, next to the “Settings” tab there’s a “Blocks” tab, click it to see what you blocked.

    • purahna@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      In short, the majority of the fediverse was (and probably still is, despite the large influx of redditors?) highly communist in nature, but Beehaw, being predominantly moderated by liberals, were getting so dogpiled for their aggressive anticommunism that they just threw up their hands and started defeferating with any instance that disagreed with them from the left at the drop of a hat. At this point they’re probably cut off from 75% or more of the fediverse and I’m sure blissfully ignorant in their little liberal bubble. We’re probably not getting them back and to be honest I’m not sure it’d be rewarding to have them back, if their users want proper discourse they can just make an account over here.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Oh, thanks, this is really useful! I didn’t realize Beehaw blocked so many. Any clue what the reason is for the one blocked instance from .world?

      • Lazycog@kbin.socialEnglish
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        1 year ago

        AFAIK there were trolls commenting and harassing beehaw communities from .world and lemmy (I believe also Kbin) lack proper moderation tools to counter that. Supposedly it’s only temporarily blocked until those required tools are implemented.