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It defederated with lemmy.world and I think sh.itjust.works.

What that means is that if you made your account on lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works, and you try to post to a beehaw community, it sort of acts like you're shadowbanned because beehaw isn't syncing with lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works. People don't see your stuff.

As far as I understand, they defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works because the HUGE influx of users would have put a moderating strain on the mods/admins of beehaw...they just don't have the manpower to keep up with huge amounts of new users.

But obviously us new users have no idea how federation/defederation works with lemmy because we're new, so it's very easy to make an account on one of these two large lemmy instances without knowing you'll have trouble interacting with beehaw communities.

To get around it, you can make an account on a smaller lemmy instance that beehaw is still federated with. But AFAIK beehaw does intend to re-federate later on when things calm down, so I'm personally ok with hanging onto my @[email protected] user for now. Not interacting with beehaw hasn't really done much to affect me, pragmatically speaking. Especially since lemmy.world got tweaked to be less laggy/buggy. (Admin team's been doing a good job.)