I’m absolutely convinced beehaw is a :fedposting: echo chamber, trying to corral redditors into another bubble before they get any wild ideas of their own

It’s funny to me how people who call themselves anti-authoritarian are some of the most eager to shut out dissenting voices

I get that the Lemmy stuff is sort of relevant to us but I do wish it was in its own channel that I could unsubscribe from.

Defederating this defederating that unless defederating means removal of feds (possibly by defenestrating) then I really do not care.

where is this 352 number from btw?

is it from here? https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances the “Bl” column?

the high number might be a little misleading https://beehaw.org/instances. a lot of the blocked instances look to be obscure inactive sites with like slurs or nasty shit in the urls.

…and then there’s us, in the same list. because pointing out that america lies about its enemies is hate speech.

It’s true that those two instances do not require a signup statement as “proof of human” but they are pretty tame lib instances with some good communities IMO. Beehaw is of course allowed to defederate with whomever they want but it’s fucking lol.