They where told ehrnt hry come to lemmy that they can see all post and commryfeom every instant.

An important part of federation is that you can freely choose who you want to federate with and who not.

S popular defederates.snd that makes people wonder.

Why does it make people wonder when they did a great job explaining why they made their decision and even made a post warning people that they might have to defederate?

But also ok the flip side Reddit mods can ban people and make the sub private and no one can do anything about it…

And that's the entire point of the whole thing.. The entire point is that anyone can create a community that they can run however they want (as long as it doesn't impact other communities).. Moderation isn't a bad thing, it's a necessary thing.. Nobody wants illegal pornography and harmful material on their servers..

And beehawk is and always has been very open about them wanting to be a safe space community with strong moderation.. They openly state that their entire motivation for creating their community is to have much stronger moderation than in other social media sites..