They might have implied as such (I don't personally think they did, but such an observation is objective.), but I myself didn't in the post above, and to say I did is dishonest. For the record, I believe they did what they had to do with the limited options they currently have. And I did not like it. Hence why I made an account on here as well. It's not a fascist regime, and I was pointing out the fact that the people acting like it is are being ridiculous. I directly witnessed the reasons why they defederated and quite ironically, an immense rise of interactions escalating precisely like this causing issues in their own communities and limited staffing to address such (especially towards the vulnerable minority communities beehaw wants to protect in ways reddit did not) in a short amount of time is quite exactly why they chose to defederate. Have a lovely day.
Where did I say it was unsafe? I was pointing out the dishonesty people have been showing in regards to discussing the reason why beehaw chose to defederate.
They defederated with the some of the largest instances that have open registration due to the influx of people causing issues in their own communities and the lack of mod tools to address the issue. People are still pissy about it despite beehaw admins stating they will lift the defederation once lemmy mod tools improve…
It likely will take some time to federate in instances unfortunately. Things are kinda overloaded all across the lemmyverse especially with the "pending subscription" stuff within inter-instance communities, but over time it will stabilize itself. Similar stuff happened when mastodon got migrants for a time as well.
Keep trying. In the communities tab, you can type [email protected] into the communities tab and attempt to get it to federate.
Edit: it seems to have federated!
If had the technical knowledge I'd make an instance for the east coast/mid atlantic region kinda like midwest.social
maybe... eastcoast.social? or something?
Freedom of speech with consequences?
I think abortion rights will be a key breaking point for many voters across Virginia and rally many against anti-choice officials. A bear has been poked that isn't going to be calmed down.
The hive mind grows.
Given the way other sites have gone I doubt that those that go back once the blackout ends for some subs will be able to tolerate staying for long.
I hope it gets to a point where hyperlocal/city specific communities are feasible but we will see.
People are being pissy about it for dishonest reasons is what I meant, if that clarification helps.