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Beehaw's degeneration is actually temporary. They said they would like to refederate with major instances when there's better mod tools available. The problem is they're only 4 admins and don't really have the capability to moderate that well right now.
What happened with Beehaw?
They want a safe space for their particular values, so defederated with every instance which doesn’t.
I've read every scrap of documentation on their website, and still don't have a good sense what exactly their "values" are. In one sentence they sound more woke than Reddit, in the next sentence they sound like they're pushing back on overwrought codes of conduct.
Honestly, Beehaw just comes across as one quirky individual's vanity project, created out of spite after he got modded on another board, and it somehow stumbled into drawing a crowd.
I tend to err on the side of caution. Their stated goal is more moderation, and I'll take that at face value. They left Reddit where people are banned from dozens of subreddits for any and no reason at all, and thought, "you know what we need? Even more moderation!"