in summer 2023, when I moved here from reddit, the lemmy instance beehaw.org was extremely divisive. they wanted to create a website according to certain rules rather than a free for all. some people were saying it would be the end of the threadiverse before it even began.
since that time, there have been various other intrinsic and extrinsic threats. I do not see much panicking about beehaw. did the threadiverse survive beehaw? or is this only a shell of what we might have had otherwise?
Beehaw defederated from a lot of other major instances.
Seems like they shot themselves in the foot.
Unless their goal was to create an echo chamber of about 15 people, and if so, they’ve been very successful.
That is exactly their goal. They openly state it, and I respect them for that.
Federating with others was never really what they wanted. It’s a semi-private discussion space with strict rules.
Initially they were not so upfront about it. Things changed as they experienced more of the fediverse.