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lemmy.world has had a handful of back to back queerphobic trolls spamming hate across multiple groups and instances.
They would get banned and come right back.
The reason they were able to do that is because of the open signups on lemmy.world.
Beehaw is an instance that takes protecting their members as their highest goal. They value it significantly more than wide federation.
And so they blocked lemmy.world, as it was a source of bigotry towards their members, and there were no other moderation tools available to them to resolve the issue.
How long does it take, do you know, for Beehaw to approve sign ups? I signed up 3 days ago and have yet to receive a verification email. I originally signed up on lemmy.ml and received verification in about an hour, but ended up deleting that account do that instance's... problematic nature. I'm on sh.itjust.works right now, but would rather be on Beehaw.
I signed up [on beehaw] a week or two ago and never got an email from them, but there was a thread at the time where people were praising the quick signup turnaround time (I want to say this was either just before or just after the creator of Apollo announced he was shutting down at the end of June, so signups were building but not as quickly) and I tried to sign in on a whim based on that and it worked.
Same here