I wish I could fully move to kbin and avoid the federation drama but there’s currently no way to move my post and comment history to a new account. I guess for now I’ll just use kbin to view the communities I can no longer see in Beehaw.

I had just subbed to some on both servers, but hadn’t interacted in any yet. So it hasn’t affected me too badly. I just need to go find different versions of those communities, since most of the witchy ones I could find were over there.

I just started a small instance called wizanons.dev if anyone is interested in joining. We’re focused on magic and mysticism, especially psychonautics.

Also super friendly and we’ve yet to ban any instances since we’re still small and haven’t needed to. We run the “magic” community, which is mostly general for anything magical - fantasy or otherwise anyone wants to post about.

I was subscribed to a lot of pretty niche communities on lemmy.world, so safe to say I’m disappointed in that regard. I’m happy the mods here are trying to make this place safer, but I think it would help to be able to make your own communities at some point.

I’m currently browsing for communities to replace those small ones that I lost hold of.

I don’t think I subbed to anything on those two instances, so I’m not affected at all. I only recently switched to subscribed on the front page too as default so if I missed anything from them, I haven’t noticed. Beehaw have grown large and active enough to make up most of my front page at this point.

I think out of all the federated subs I have, the active an interesting ones to me are coming out of programming.dev. I also sub to a few fediverse related ones, one of which actually posted about Beehaw’s decision to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.work. There were some takes that miss the point. There were also those who defended Beehaw’s decision too. It was interesting to see the interactions unfold.