• PuffinMcGuffin@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Can you (or anyone else) explain the circumstances around them defederating? More specifically, why would they do that, and what exactly is their benefit?

    • XEL@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      .world doesn’t require as stringent verification and beehaw mods claimed that a lot of spam was coming from .world. I don’t know if that’s true, but that’s what they claimed.

      • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        Someone dug into the mod logs and found four or five instances of lemmy.world accounts being moderated on Beehaw. That’s all it took for them to defederate