Sure, but maybe every instance doesn't have to be tightly federated. There will be some instances where broad federation is their guiding principle, and some instances like Beehaw where their guiding principle is creating and maintaining a particular atmosphere.

Hrm actually, it seems like now you can do it without a third party app -- https://www.makeuseof.com/run-two-copies-of-app-android/

I mean, you can create two accounts. I have my Beehaw account as well as my startrek.website account, for example. I use them both for different things, and they both have different vibes. I quite like it tbh.

Based on this post, it seems like the mods were responding specifically to having a lot of issues with regard to users from that specific instance. I feel like there are likely plenty of smaller &/or more niche instances with open registration who don't attract users looking specifically to troll Beehaw.

In Android you can use an app to clone apps so you can sign in to different accounts, maybe something like that exists for iOS also? I appreciate the frustration wrt not being able to see a fair amount of content, however I do think it's a temporary issue -- as you say Mlem is already working on that.

I agree, at first my knee-jerk reaction was against defederation, but I think actually this is one of the cool things about Lemmy and the way it works; you can have relatively isolated pockets and very open spaces, and users can move between them freely. It's not like leaving Reddit and coming to Lemmy, for example. You can use Beehaw and other instances, and both can serve a specific purpose. I really appreciate this write up because without it I would not have felt good about this decision, but after having read it I get it and I appreciate it.

It means you can't view their content through your Beehaw account, but you can create another account on another instance to see content that is defederated from Beehaw.

I agree with the general consensus in this thread that, though regrettable, I appreciate what you are trying to do with this. It is fairly straightforward to create an account on another instance to see other content if we want to, and I appreciate Beehaw being its own, special thing.

Ahhh, ty. It did seem even worse than expected for him to have been actively running that sub.

Wow I didn't know he ran r/jailbait. Gross.

I am new to Lemmy and also to Beehaw. Does defederation mean that we can't load comments/threads/communities from defederated servers via Beehaw (and vice versa for users of instances Beehaw has defederated from)?

Hopefully it will help people realise that a profit motive being attached to everything is actually counterproductive societally.