For some reason I am still seeing beehaw posts here. Is it a transitional thing?

So what does defederation mean in practice? I can still see communities on beehaw im subbed to. Is it just that I won't see new ones? Or that I can't search/comment on them?

Welp. This was fun while it lasted I guess.

I think the only way around stuff like this is to have some alts hanging around. This account is an alt to the same-name lemmy.ml account, but now only the lemmy.ml account can see beehaw stuff. It's a shame, because beehaw did seem to have something good going with their more curated communities. They could have put out a call for moderators if that's what they need, but instead they decided to close the gates.

I wouldn't be afraid to make a bunch of alts. Simply having an alt account doesn't put strain on the servers. It's the using it that does. Until then, it can lie in wait, inactive, without much impact.

kind of disappointing to see, considering they had some very large communities across the feddiverse.

If they were trying to do something like tildes with the small, curated user base, they probably shouldn't have federated at all. this is just going to hold community growth back for the other instances

Oh well, I was subbed into a couple beehaw communities but wasn't really active in them anyways.