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[–] AnyOldName3 2 points 2 weeks ago

Beehaw has a complicated signup process (it at least used to require you to write an essay), which makes accounts more valuable without having to charge money. They ended up defederating from a lot of other instances, though, as obviously, letting anyone bypass the registration requirements by just using another instance would undermine them.