Sure, but they still have to abide by that instance’s guidelines. And as far as I can tell, it’s easy to subscribe to an external community without ever seeing those guidelines.

I agree fully with this. Centralizing all of the major communities with Beeyah is silly. And I wish the moderation rules were at the community level instead of instance level, but I understand that’s a limitation of the ActivityPub protocol (as far as I can tell).

Ohio gozaimasu! Fellow Ohioan here. I'm a software developer, so I'm really into tech, videogames, and anime. Along with tea and inline skating. I was never too active on Reddit, but Lemmy solves most of the issues I had with it, so it makes sense to join amidst the hopefully indefinite blackout to help the movement succeed.