Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
BreadDog@kbin.social to 
Fediverse@kbin.social – 102 points – beehaw.org
Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances
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Is it crashing and burning if it aligns with their explicitly stated goals? Seems like they're sticking to their guns and having a well moderated community by doing this. Some people will want that, some won't. But if we want this federation thing to work, we can't start whining about instances making choices about what their users interact with. If anything I'm glad this is happening early so that people can see how the federation stuff will play out and get used to the idea.
Having thought it over, I think the only two ways this can go are that beehaw defederates with almost everyone who isn't a carbon copy of themselves in order to lighten the load, or they put more admins/mods in control (is this possible? I assume it is). Nothing else is going to stem interaction between y'all's instance and every person and post on the fediverse that breaks the rules. What they wanted to do is admirable, but really doesn't scale well with the amount of interaction being seen now.
Temporary measures while they expand their abilities would be the much more expected way for this to go. If instead their solution is to just defederate everything all the time forever because people not signed up for beehaw didn't sign up for beehaw's rules, they might as well have built a wordpress forum for way less money than they're spending. There's going to be too much.
I'm a bit confused by your comment. They say in their post that they will reevaluate when Lemmy's mod tools improve. More granular control over federation could help too. It's a temporary measure.
It's not like they're taking extreme action because they want to cause schisms. "They will defederate with everyone" only seems to apply if every other huge instance also has high numbers of trolls. Maybe not so unlikely, but mod tools on Lemmy will hopefully improve by then. Note: you sign up for beehaw's rules when you choose to interact on beehaw, not when you sign up to beehaw. The issue they are dealing with here is that they have had to disproportionately moderate users interacting on beehaw coming from those instances.
And at the end of the day, if beehaw becomes too isolated, it takes like 5 clicks to open a different instance in my browser and sign up there instead.
For reference, Beehaw blocks almost 400 instances.
I'm assuming most are troublesome communities and it makes sense. But, I do worry they are block happy. I wish they at least had reasons listed or a megathread with reasons for transparency.