Does that mean I need to create a separate account on Beehaw to view their stuff now?
If you’re subscribed to any communities on @beehaw.org, then yes. After defederation, none of the new content from there will appear on your lemmy.world account and vice versa - people at @beehaw.org won’t see your posts on lemmy.world.
Why does this stuff have to be so complicated?
This is how fediverse works. There’s no “central place”, there’s currently 333 Lemmy servers. Each of them is free to take their own decisions regarding moderation and who they want to exchange content with. I know it probably feels complicated compared to centralized approach, but that’s the core of these federated services. It’s not different from Reddit subs banning users for posting in other subs.
Is Lemmy actually a viable Reddit alternative or not?
I guess time will tell, but if the Twitter meltdown-migration is a reference, then no - majority of people will go back to Reddit after the blackouts are over (I guess today).
This will never be Reddit, and that’s good because as you can see Reddit fucks up bad.
I could ask similar questions to reddit admins/ceo.
Why are you killing the app I use to browse reddit?
Why do I have to install a different app that’s slower and riddled with ads?
Why are you making this change that I don’t like?
If you’re subscribed to any communities on @beehaw.org, then yes. After defederation, none of the new content from there will appear on your lemmy.world account and vice versa - people at @beehaw.org won’t see your posts on lemmy.world.
This is how fediverse works. There’s no “central place”, there’s currently 333 Lemmy servers. Each of them is free to take their own decisions regarding moderation and who they want to exchange content with. I know it probably feels complicated compared to centralized approach, but that’s the core of these federated services. It’s not different from Reddit subs banning users for posting in other subs.
I guess time will tell, but if the Twitter meltdown-migration is a reference, then no - majority of people will go back to Reddit after the blackouts are over (I guess today).
This will never be Reddit, and that’s good because as you can see Reddit fucks up bad.
I could ask similar questions to reddit admins/ceo.
Why are you killing the app I use to browse reddit?
Why do I have to install a different app that’s slower and riddled with ads?
Why are you making this change that I don’t like?