My first account on the fediverse was on Beehaw and I was happy with it, but defederating from two of the largest instances gave me a reason to find a new instance. Personally I understand and respect the decision -that is the point of the fediverse afterall.

They had a lot of good communities that will not be cut off from the fastest growing instances which will make things tough to rebuild I think.

  • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It does seem like a major flaw in the whole thing if you can just lose access to a community you’ve become part of because you happened to sign up on the wrong instance.

    • xavier666@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      There should be an option to make another instance “read-only”. Example- people from lemmy.world can view/subscribe to beehaw communities but can’t vote/comment (and vice versa). That would have been slightly better.