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There are different opinions on Beehaw's registration process. I kind of see how some people would find it dissuasive, specially after most of us are coming from Reddit. But I still think it's very practical, at least for the time being.
Btw, this is only my opinion as a new user, I don't know any of the admins/mods. Link to my original comment.
Defederation and regulation of registration and interaction are part of decentralisation.
"Decentralised social media" doesn't mean "the same as a centralised social media, but on a bigger scale"
It's just that instead of belonging to a corporation that seek profit, it belongs to common people who can have their own servers/chose the server they want to be and interact or not with the people or content of other servers as they please.
Decentralisation gives you the choice to:
Not having to see intolerant/discriminatory content
To interact more easily with people akin to you, as part of federation in certain platforms is the ability to create "bubbles", which consist on sister instances that are closely connecting and interacting with yours.
Being able to register to a server that fits your need and it's in agreement with your ideas.
It also gives you the opportunity to move on to another instance if something happens to the one your in or you simply find that it wasn't for you. Because there are hundreds of servers using a same software, you don't need to put up with anything, if you don't agree with the admins you just move to another instance. Neither are still possible here, but other platforms have features like "migration" and "nomadic identify" that facilitate this.
Limiting who can be part and interact with your server is also essential because most of the people that choose the fediverse and other open source social media over corporative one (not people who are simply here because their fav social media giant fucked them over) do so because they want to be safe from the harassment and bullying promoted in big capitalistic social media platforms. These people belong to marginalised groups, are political or some other kind of activists, etc.
The humanity of the person behind an account is very important here.
As such attitudes like trolling, interacting in bad faith, baiting, etc that were seeing as neutral, "great fun" and encouraged on big for-profit social media platforms aren't acceptable here. "Trolling" and "shitposting" is a valid reason for defederation here.
So, no. This is not a replacement, this is a completely different model of social media that caters to a completely different public.
Lemmy and kbin aren't "multiserver Reddit"
Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, etc aren't "multiserver twitter"
Friendica and Hubzilla aren't "multiserver Facebook"
Nor they ever aim to be.