[lolinder]

Beehaw was around a long time before Lemmy took the spotlight, and they explicitly have tried to have a high-moderation community with a distinct character. It wouldn't surprise me if they continue to defederate any instance with open registration.

There are other programming communities on other servers that will likely become the actual replacement for r/programming.

EDIT: The "What is Beehaw?" post in their sidebar[0] is a really enlightening introduction to the community, and also quite interesting for developing an understanding of the fediverse as a whole. This isn't going to be a drop-in replacement for Reddit because the admins will all have very different visions of the kinds of communities they want to create. I didn't end up deciding to join Beehaw, but reading their post made me very hopeful for the future of the fediverse as a whole.

[0] https://beehaw.org/post/107014

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

I like this miniature manifesto (Beehaw). Sadly I don’t think the mod policies outlined in it are something scalable for the masses, but if you’re trying to build a cool, tight knit community it feels like it will work really well.

[ShroudedNight]

> It wouldn't surprise me if they continue to defederate any instance with open registration.

We're back to dodging Eris, are we?

[codetrotter]

> We're back to dodging Eris, are we?

For those that don’t know:

> Initially, most IRC servers formed a single IRC network, to which new servers could join without restriction, but this was soon abused by people who set up servers to sabotage other users, channels, or servers. Restriction grew and, in August 1990, eris.Berkeley.EDU was the last server indiscriminately allowing other servers to join it, Eris being the Greek goddess of strife and discord.

> A group of operators, with the support of Jarkko Oikarinen, introduced a new "Q-line" into their server configurations, to "quarantine" themselves away from eris by disconnecting from any subset of the IRC network as soon as they saw eris there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet

This is how the Eris-Free network, or EFnet as it is known, was formed.

Further:

> EFnet […] is a major Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network, with more than 35,000 users. It is the modern-day descendant of the original IRC network.

[rjh29]

I learned why efnet is called efnet from your comment. Very interesting, thanks!