My understanding was that they blocked 2 specific instances, which people are referring to as “defederating” and “having a closed system,” but my understanding is that all other Lemmy and kbin instances can still interact with Beehaw and vice versa, so isn’t Beehaw technically still federated, they just blocked two instances which is something I would expect federated servers to be allowed to do? And are people boycotting Beehaw? Does that involve not interacting with any beehaw server, or does that mean people are just not having accounts in a Beehaw server?
Edit: and I’m seeing posts now suggesting that kbin is defederating? What’s up with that?
Apparently it wasn’t just hateful posts, but a troll attack specifically directed at them, and as you said, they don’t have enough mod power to deal with it.
I hope the idiots doing it have been banned but that’s not a guarantee someone else won’t try again.
With instances as big as ours, a few bad apples can happen unfortunately.