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.
Idk, you could say they’re being “over-protective”, but even then I would argue. As I’ve said in another comment, people who come here expect that… At least I did when I decided to sign up here and not somewhere else. And they do federate with other servers. I mean, you’re posting this from kbin after all… so how’s that opposed to federation?
Btw, IIRC they literally say in one of their posts: “this is not a Reddit replacement”.
I also didn’t say they were being over protective, I said they were being picky by definition. Which for the third time, I don’t have a problem with lol. I don’t care what they do with their instance. Curating a userbase is totally their prerogative. It just seems weird to do so on this platform where you’ll be interactive with userbases that you did not curate. It seems self-defeating. That’s why I originally said another format or structure may have just worked better for what they want to create. But again, I don’t really care either way, I was just throwing in my two cents that no one asked for.
Go to any established (older than a month or two) Lemmy instance and click the “instances” button. You will see that each has lists of instances they defederated from.
It’s part and parcel of decentralization.