Come on, let's be adults about it. Beehaw has always had stricter registration requirements, but didn't defederate until just now. The problem was that they simply don't have the tools needed to moderate such a huge influx of people from uncurated instances and it was interfering with the culture they prided themselves on.

I'm not a member of Beehaw, but I can respect them knowing both what they want to be and when their limited ability to enforce it meant drastic measures to preserve the community. This is one of the good things about federation: they're allowed to do that and we don't need to switch platforms entirely!

Wish everyone luck going forward.