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Whatβs the deal with beehaw? Can anyone Eli5?
They defederated from lemmy.world and another large instance as they said there was an influx of abusive users from these instances and their small, centralised moderation team was unable to manage it.
What kind of abusive users?
Chi1d p0rn posters, among others. According to them, and I have no reason to doubt them.
It's essentially assholes that are taking the quickest route to being toxic. It's not that the instances are inherently toxic, more that they're the easiest way for someone who wants to be toxic.
The main thing is that beehaw has an application process for creating a new account, while most lemmy instances do not. They defederated because they were struggling to keep troublesome people out since banned users could just create a new account on another instance and get back in.
Their moderation/admin policy is very strict, and they only have a few admins to manage it.
Beehaw mods want more curation of users and content on their instance and they think the mod tools available to them are not sufficient to handle users coming from other instances so they decided to defederate a couple of instances, from which, they say, too many trolls are coming due to their open registration policy.