• Are Beehaw some sort of gatekeepers? I mean if you don’t want any interaction outside of your own instance at all because you can’t handle it, why even create an instance on an federated network?

    • They advertise themselves as a safe space.

      being safe and being open are somewhat detrimental to each other.
      They choose to be less open, to be more safe.

      Fine by me, but I’d expect them to turn into a LGBTQIA+ (is that the current one?) echo chamber before long.
      And maybe I’ll be wrong, and that’ll be fine too.

    • That’s the beauty of the Fediverse - everyone gets to make the rules for their own instance, and you choose the instance you want.

      There will be widely federated instances, entirely private instances (I’m looking at one for our work intranet) and everything in between.