While I agree with you, beehaw is the only big community blocking so many instances. The other 2 are just a handful of subscribers

I think you hit the key with removing the sentence, it's just that beehaw made it very obvious at a time it got a ton of attention.

If beehaw wants a smaller very strictly moderated community it shouldn't be offered as a point of access to the rest of the fediverse, specially now that a bunch of new people don't know much about lemming and may feel deceived