As somebody who started with a Beehaw account (and still has it, since things may get reconciled down the road) I’m mainly annoyed at how it was just plopped suddenly on the community.

The Beehaw admins had a lengthy post full of vague allusions to bad behavior by .world members without specifics. I think a sensible first step would have been to contact .world admins and attempt a dialog to determine baseline behavior on both sides users. It might not have worked but the fact that it apparently never crossed the Beehaw admin’s minds tells me how they view others.

The second factor is the Beehaw admins have multiple huge posts about building a community. With the lack of concrete rules and the huge change defederation causes, it would have been more in line with their ethos to put up a poll for users or discussion thread before defederating to get community input.

Finally in the post regarding the defederation, anybody who voiced opposition or even skepticism of defederation was painted as part of the problem. A pattern with Beehaw admins I’ve noticed is that when people ask specifics on how they will apply being nice and post examples of contentious arguments that might happen, the admins say that even asking the question is a “self report” sign of not being a suitable member of the community.

If Beehaw admins see this post, I stand behind it, I just saw no sense in flaming arguments in their own thread which was clearly an after action review and not open to taking critical notes.