Beehaw defederates too much though. ML is like the central hub. I like Beehaw a lot, and have an account there, but it lacks the broader user base of Lemmy as a whole because of the lack of federation. They need to open to the other major instances IMO. They are great people, and I wish we could all connect freely again. Lemmy as a whole is not much larger than it was when they defederated with dot world. I haven't been over there in like 6 months, but I miss it.

This is not a good move. Beehaw defederates too much to lose this community to that instance.

I mean if we are talking raw sub count !feminism@lemmy.world is the biggest, technically 2nd after !femi@szmer.info but they are Polish.

Just a gentle reminder that you don't have final say in that.

The folks that run the instance do. Afaik, they don't usually interfere with such things, but a dead C/ is likely to eventually get their attention in one way or another. Might want to drop them a message and see what they say before making any major decisions about what to do with this C/, regardless of what else happens.

Also, beehaw isn't really lemmy. They dabble in it. You'd very much want to redirect elsewhere in terms of consolidating communities (which isn't actually a great thing tbh).