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.
No, midwest.social hasn’t defederated from either community (as far as I know) and you should continue to see and be able to interact with content from all 3. It’s just that users on behaw won’t be able to see/interact with content from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, and vice versa.
Yup. At any time you can click the “instances” button on the bottom to see who we are connected with and who we block.