Huffman has said, “We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit’s content] away for free.” That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit’s content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of volunteer moderators.
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Exactly. And beehaw is far from the only instance that has had to defederate to limit not attacks and trolling. Beehaw just did it more than others.
There’s nothing to stop instances refederating later, and no doubt this will happen when the dust settles and the tools are developed.