Not that I know of! The story is that lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works saw huge growth at the start of the Reddit blackout. To the tune of several dozen thousands of users.

Most of those users were cool.

Some where not and caused problems. With the sudden scaling, weaknesses in the moderation system of Lemmy became apparent, both from a functional and from a manpower standpoint.

So in order to keep their instance appealing, beehaw defederated as they could not keep up with the (minority of, but still significant) problematic activity.

This defederation is supposed to be temporary, and once these instances get sign-up under control, bots wrangled, and Lemmy’s overall moderation tools improve, they would want to again federate with as many instances as possible.

A lot of users hear about the situation and just say “oh are those instances bad?” or “beehaw are being crybabies and ruining the fediverse!” But I think both of those opinions are a bit shortsighted. Sure it’s not a great situation but no one is acting out of malice (except the jerk trolls) and everyone is (last I knew) doing whatever work is needed to remedy the situation, regardless of how long it might take.

[–] lp0101 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nah, Beehaw just had only 4 admins for the entire website and enforced pretty strong hugbox rules, so they quickly got overwhelmed by the larger instances and defederated.

[–] spiritedpause 5 points 1 year ago

hugbox (slang, derogatory) An environment or thing which validates or reinforces a limited set of feelings or ideas.

First time I've seen that term used, and it's a great way to describe what websites like beehaw are haha. They're free to moderate their community as they see fit, just saying that's an accurate way to describe their community values.