Does this mean Beehaw will refederate?
It's a good question. Hopefully the Beehaw admin team will reach out to the Lemmy.World admin team to have a discussion about exactly what the LW admins are trying to achieve and under what conditions they will be ready to reopen submissions. Though even if they do have that conversation there's no guarantee that that will match up with what the Beehaw admins are looking for in order to refederate. It was made clear from the Beehaw admins at the time though that they didn't have any issues with LW in general, only that toxic disruptive people were using the open sign-up of LW to create accounts to go cause trouble over at Beehaw (outside of the general LW userbase) and that they hoped to refederate once better tools were in place to address those disruptive users. Could be that lines up pretty well with LW's goal to wait until they have better tools to address malicious bot accounts before they reopen signups.
Better to semi restrict sign ups so the experience is improved for everyone. When those security issues have been fixed we can open up again. Seems fair
As long as users from allied instances can still post it is all good.
Lemmy.world users were mostly upset 2 months ago about how other Lemmy servers had application based registration and that made it bad for widespread adoption.
Incidents like this are part of why this is a bad idea. Hopefully mitigations to maliciously posted illegal content can be implemented to help Lemmy server admins big and small.
Bummer, but I hope you can find a solution soon! What a PITA for you all.
Very understandable, keep up the work!
Thank you so much for doing what it takes to control bots. Much appreciated!
Sounds like a plan! It's a 100% beneficial thing, it should clean it up a bit.
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