Ok so TLDR for people who don’t quite know what this means.

Beehaw are going for a walled garden approach and cutting off our access to content from some of the bigger instances. This is fine, it’s their right as instance admins and it creates a safer space for anyone who was only browsing Beehaw local communities anyway. It’s best they’ve done this now before even more people join, but it does suck for those of us who already built a nice feed.

As users we now have a decision to make. If you’re an active member of a community on one of these two instances, you’ll probably need to migrate your account.

If you’re an active member of a community on another instance, bear in mind if that instance grows large you may then be in the same position.

The bad news is there’s no easy way to migrate accounts here like there is on Mastodon, and we’re going to have to resubscribe to everything all over again from whichever instance we move to. Unless anyone knows any handy tool or anything?

(p.s. It seems like I can still click through to my communities on, say, lemmy.world but presumably they’ll no longer update. This is going to really confuse people as there’s no visual indicator that the community is blocked from my pov)

Honestly it is a bit weird, yes, but you do you 😄

What a time to be alive 🍿

I’ve seen talk on GitHub issues of changing exactly how it works but not sure how high priority that is right now.

If the really big community is on your home instance, one workaround is to actually unsub because you’ll see it in the local/all feeds anyway.

Alternatively try changing your default sort, I’m on new comments which does at least mean I only see the big threads when someone is chatting in them.

I mostly used RiF, but installed the official app during a trip last year to do logistics with someone who was using the built in chat.

I don’t tend to always have data on my phone, because WiFi is everywhere, and just add some when I’m going on a trip like this. I’d loaded up a fiver’s worth the morning we left, which usually sees me through an entire month in these situations.

Woke up after the first night away to an alert that my data was all used up. And on further investigation, guess which app was the culprit? Just literally sitting there overnight while I was asleep, gobbling up a month’s worth of data to do god knows what.

I uninstalled the app.

Yep they’re on fire, husband was on there but has temporarily moved back to Lemmy since Kbin isn’t federating. They’ll sort it aaaaht I’m sure.

Think you ended up in a different thread to where you intended, fyi.

Yeah everything is taking an absolute hammering atm and federation is all over the place. I’ve got two accounts myself. Just couldn’t bear the idea of OP having like ten accounts for different instances by accident :D

I know it’s not the point of your post (which I did read and also agree with) but just in case nobody else has mentioned it…

In your summary you said you’d signed up for “other instances of Lemmy” and I just want to make sure you know you don’t need to do that to join communities in other places! :)

Subscribed, new comments. It’s the perfect combo as it shows me new posts but also ones getting recent action.

I do regularly flip to local or all just because it’s fun to stumble across random new stuff, and also because I’m not subbed to many actually big communities (yet).

Yup. Completely with you on everything you just said.

They’re Lemmy-wide I believe. Have a second account on lemmy.world and I’ve seen at least the first and third bugs happen there too.

Coming at this from a slightly different angle, as I do use Instagram and it was responsible for helping my YT channel and therefore my business in general take off.

I’m already on Mastodon, so would have no need to use this. However, I’ve really come to despise IG and find interacting with it to be more of a chore than anything. So an option for my friends and viewers from IG to communicate with me without me having to actually log in over there? I can just stay on Mastodon and run everything from one place? Sounds fine to me!

(pending evidence of good faith as discussed elsewhere in thread)

Yep you’ll only have problems if another instance is specifically blocked by yours.

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Subbing to all of them, contributing where I can, and seeing what happens :)

This question makes no sense because I’m British and we make literally anything sound like an insult.

I do both! Also the answer is yes.

Understandable enough I suppose, there’s more crucial things atm! I do hope they get there eventually though, it’s a handy fallback feature over on Mastodon.

I’ve seen people literally signing up here just to make like 50 empty communities and not post or comment on anything at all. Definitely a lot of folks just trying to stake some territory that they think will be valuable in the future.