I don’t get what the problem is? Anyone can elaborate.

Edit: Thank you all for shedding more light on this topic. I’ve never really used flatpak but I do understand it better now!

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    125·
    2 years ago

    To clarify a minor point, beehaw isn’t new. It was established in Feb 2022, and it’s been thriving with a relatively small community up until this months crazy growth. They’re not so much finding their feet as trying to maintain an existing communities safety in the face of rapid growth.

      • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        91·
        2 years ago

        Not at all. They’ve been one of the largest instances on lemmy for over a year, and they federated widely during that time. The issue is that lemmy is still a relatively immature platform in terms of moderation features. The workload on their moderators to sustain federation and community safety with rudimentary moderation tools whilst the threadiverse population increases in size over 1000 fold is incredibly high.

        So until moderation tools improve, their options are

        1. Give up their safety focus. We can assume that’s not going to happen
        2. Find more admins, which is easier said than done, because at this point in time, one of the lacking moderation features is the ability to add instance moderators. Right now, the only instance elevated role is admin. You have to be able to trust the new admin with the keys to everything.
        3. Defederate with instances that threaten their high value on community safety
          • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            71·
            2 years ago

            Everything you’ve said here though is very different to your previous comment about them not understanding federation.

            This reply is closer to the truth. They understand it quite fine, but have different priorities, and those priorities probably weren’t clear to a lot of their new members

      • Mysteriarch@kbin.social
        92·
        2 years ago

        It’s the other way around: new people and instances are learning that federation also means that other servers don’t want to federate with you, and that that’s okay. This is different from the usual ‘freeze peach’ stuff, this is just communities saying ‘we don’t want to hear you’.

      • 💡dim@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Especially when by all accounts they only had 4 admin/mods running all of their communities…

    • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      2 years ago

      Good point!

      (Folks should still expect change, and be patient with the people running this stuff.)