In most instances (like beehaw) it’s really just because lack of good moderation tools at the moment is making it difficult for them to handle a large influx of users and it’s intended to be temporary.
Personally, I think defederating is overkill, but I’m not an admin and I empathize with the difficulty I’m sure they’re facing with such a rapid scale up. The best way for most people to help this situation is to just do a good job of properly upvoting & (if enabled) downvoting content to help naturally sort content, and help report when you see people acting against the rules of a community to help it’s mods.
People who are technically savvy could especially help by participating in the development of FOSS Lemmy mod tools.
In most instances (like beehaw) it’s really just because lack of good moderation tools at the moment is making it difficult for them to handle a large influx of users and it’s intended to be temporary.
Personally, I think defederating is overkill, but I’m not an admin and I empathize with the difficulty I’m sure they’re facing with such a rapid scale up. The best way for most people to help this situation is to just do a good job of properly upvoting & (if enabled) downvoting content to help naturally sort content, and help report when you see people acting against the rules of a community to help it’s mods.
People who are technically savvy could especially help by participating in the development of FOSS Lemmy mod tools.