Seeing a big “politics” community in both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world just confuses me as to which I should be subscribing to and I don’t really want to subscribe to both.
Guess this is just a downside of federated instances? There’ll never just be one “/r/politics” on Lemmy?
To make matters worse, I’m on Beehaw, which has defederated from Lemmy.world, so I can’t see the politics community on there even if I wanted to.
It’s one thing having different instances, but quite another when users on one instance can’t see the communities of another.
On the other hand, having two different communities does mean that people in my situation could still participate on one of those.
I am new to this side of the fediverse. Why did Beehaw defederate?
Lemmy.world had open signups. There was a large influx of trolls that took advantage of the open signups to do so and then brigade Beehaw. The Beehaw admins like and respect the lemmy.world admin and anticipate defederation.
Refederation! They anticipate refederation! DAMMIT
Beehaw defederated with lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works because both of those instances allow(ed?) registering without email verification/captcha. They said it is bringing bots and spams. Haven’t seen this issue personally. I recommend being a member of an instance that still federates with both lemmy.world/sh.itjust.works and Beehaw.