Beehaw* defederated us? - sh.itjust.works

I think this is pretty unreasonable. They should not have allowed themselves to become one of the biggest instances with only FOUR moderators. That was never going to work. Placing the blame on the open registration instances seems silly.

They should not have allowed themselves to become one of the biggest instances with only FOUR moderators. That was never going to work.

might be a dumb question, but how could've they prevented thus?

I think they should have made a deliberate attempt to remain outside of the top three biggest instances like lemmy.ml. Considering the conscious decision to only have the admins be the only mods (that is there are four mods site-wide that moderate ALL communities) these issues were easily foreseen.