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Beehaw is very... anti-federation. They loved defederation immediately with the idea in hindsight that they would create a micro Reddit out of the exodus, capitalising on Reddit exodus to Lemmy. They realised the techies and discussion board enjoyers that migrated love the idea of federation, and never want again the Reddit mod/admin disease here again.

How do I know this? 3 years ago, someone sent me to help build Lemmy, later I got the whole r/piracy to migrate, then with other "core" people, we showed Redditors the way to Lemmy. Over the past few years, when not many people were here, we streamlined moderation and rules, squashed 4chan raids and whatnot, filled up a lot of content, and managed all the non-developer stuff, as the devs continued to do their job silently, and suggested them changes.

Also of course, as Catradora points out, they went after Lemmygrad, Hexbear and individuals who liked socialism/communism, which I did not find particularly welcoming in a time, especially when the exodus migration was going on.

Lemmyworld is a shittier instance that goes along these lines, which defederates lesser, but turns the dial to 11 with pro-Israel/NATO politics preferences.

There are some aggressively snarky lefties on here. Funny enough I felt that way more when looking at it from a different instance, but I guess internally it's not as much of a thing because the tone is more relaxed internally, imo. Which is an interesting phenomenon. Maybe has to do with how people talk when they feel they're in their in-group vs when they feel they have to have their defenses up.