The main issue with an instance such as lemmy.world is that they don't vet people at all. Beehawk manually approves their users, but that becomes kinda pointless when anyone can just create an account on lemmy.world and then go post on beehawk.

[–] crwcomposer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, but then is Beehaw just going to defederate with every instance that has open registration or limited vetting, past a certain user threshold?

That includes lots of instances. Kbin.social has open registration and is growing, for example.

At that point, is a federated social network really what served their goals?

[–] _finger_@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Writing a paragraph about why you want to join isn’t necessarily a great vetting process though

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But isn't that true of many more smaller instances as well? Will Beehaw defederate from everyone?

[–] Quill7513@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Most likely only if those small instances become hot beds for signing up for accounts to go cause problems

[–] aski3252@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, there are smaller instances that don't vet, but according to the beehawk admins, they aren't an issue in terms of moderation, probably because of their small size. If other instances were to cause an immense need for increased moderation, I'm sure they will defederate from them as well.

Also the admins made it clear that this is supposed to be a temporary action until they are able to effectively moderate their community according to their rules and goals.