If you had an account and then deleted it, you will get this page until you delete you beehaw cookies. It tries to automatically log you in on your old account and then fails with this error as it was deleted.

I’m not sure if this is unique to beehaw or across all Lemmy instances.

Not really, I started using it in 2008 but it’s changed a lot since then. Recently I’ve just been using it for talking about books and video games.

I used Apollo, and after the way they treated the creator, there’s no way I would use Reddit again.

Yeah, delete your account too.

It’s like Cortes burning the ships.

I don’t really care. I don’t visit Reddit anymore and don’t intend to return.

You are just describing joining any one of the dozens on instances that aren’t defederated from Beehaw or Lemmy.world - your INAA.net already exists in the form of all those instances which Beehaw didn’t defederate from.

I join the largest existing alternative - for example for technology the lemmy.ml one is already very large so I just join that.

We ask them why they aren’t helping the tortoise in the desert.

They defederated from lemmy.world and another large instance as they said there was an influx of abusive users from these instances and their small, centralised moderation team was unable to manage it.

They can do what they want though. But so can lemmy.world

lemmy.world is both more stable (like the server doesn’t go down) and has less political extremists.

Yes. We won’t see their own instance at all. What we see from beehaw atm is the outdated copies we have from prior to defederation.

I don’t either.

Yeah, the solution is just to leave beehaw though. It takes a few minutes to make a new account on another instance. If they really want to access the beehaw stuff they could join an instance that is still federated with them, that way they could see the beehaw posts and the lemmy.world posts.

It’s probably best just to abandon beehaw entirely though and use alternative communities in the Fediverse.

Yeah, I suspect they will move to a whitelist the moment that functionality becomes available. Or just defederate entirely from everything and become a walled garden.

Same, I’ve found the attitude really positive here. It reminds me of early Reddit in like 2008.

Yeah, it seems some are happy to burn down the whole thing if it means they can rule over the ashes.

Yeah, I’m not sure how complicated it is. With the cloud, getting a server is pretty cheap and easy nowadays and maybe someone already has a Docker image set up to make it as simple as possible. There are step-by-step instructions somewhere.

Yeah, Lemmy is open source so maybe this will get added. This was meant to be quite a rare edge case unless you were like from some Nazi/racist instance or something though.

But admin approval just slows it down right? Like how is the admin going to know you aren’t a bad actor?

It also really slows down the sign-up process which will cripple the growth of the Fediverse.