My personal tldr is that lemmy.world & sh.itjust.works have open registration and beehaw admins are have had enough dealing with a ton of troll accounts from these 2 instances. Is this a problem for Midwest.social? I’m subscribed to a couple of (non toxic I hope) communities.
That and the lack of quality mod tools built into Lemmy. Anything popular on the internet has to deal with trolls and other bad actors trying to be disruptive. Users can go to the open registration instances and make a new account as fast as the instance mods can ban them.
My first thought was this was some ego bullshit in a new and growing platform. But apparently the Beehaw people reached out to the other instances and they all agreed that defederating was the only real option for now.
This is my fear too. I remember when identi.ca got overran with spam. It was months before they got it sorted and by the time they did the community was dead.