"At this point, Beehaw seems to not want to federate. They defederated from Lemmy.world and shitjustworks. Both can be found on the join-lemmy page.
They have defederated from the most communities at like 352 lol. Shitjustworks and Lemmy World don't even have that much of a culture difference with...
There are plenty of ex-redditors on lemmy.world (myself included) who think the beehaw instance is way too restrictive and overly sensitive. Don't like the no downvote thing either. In fact, many ex-redditors have complained about that.
There's a lot of people who have left beehaw after the defederation, and I think it's only particular types of redditors who are attracted to the way that's being run. The 4 mods thought they could recreate default subreddits and moderate it all by themselves.
I think you're generalizing way too much, and giving too much credit to us redditors. Most of us ended up in instances by chance. I saw a lot of people recommend beehaw but I didn't like the atmosphere and randomly settled on lemmy.world instead.
I'm still figuring things out, but I'm happy where I landed. No plans on going back to reddit either. I also think that ex-redditors need to stop trying to make lemmy reddit. It doesn't need to be a clone.
Yes, but that beats the whole essence of the "everyone's connected and can connect to anyone" fediverse selling point.
The solution is simple. You don't like a community? Block it. You don't like a user? Block him/her. Defederating is not the solution and beats the whole point of having a fediverse.
I'm currently juggling with 5 accounts because of this very reason. I had another reason to do so on reddit (multiple personalities, lol), but if you ask me, this reason is just stupid 😒.
They probably took the Reddit population at face value, not realising that so much of Reddit is either curated or controlled so that only reactionary views come through.
When people have the freedom to say what they want without the five eyes fiddling with the algorithm, leading brigades, or outright deleting progressive and revolutionary-leaning content, the discourse and culture look very different.
I'm not surprised that ordinary people won't generally fall for the beehaw sales pitch. But they clearly don't expect to ever see contradictory views.