this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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and this is the issue with beehaw isn't it, i'm not judging them wanting to carve out a vetted/secure and controlled space, it's entirely understandable given their audience and purpose, but then why are you building such a community on federated software? that sounds impossible! part of the point of federation is to allow cross-talk from other spaces and communities. if you're going to defederate and wall off from 400 instances (as OP claims) then beehaw should transition to vanilla forum software, this would save themselves all the headache.
all the best to them ❤️
I don't think it is what the mods want. They would rather be open, but not at the cost of being unable to keep on top of moderation. Also, the software works perfectly well as a closed forum. And maybe that suits beehaw better.
This is a feature of federated communities, there is no one source of who's in and who's out. That is the job of each instance. But if an instance does not control its users then it will lose reputation and be excluded from certain spaces.
Therefore, we are all responsible for the reputation of our own instance.