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Mods are kicking them out and the users are down-voting them.

I do not understand why people are giving trolls this much power.

That is ignoring that instance owners can decide for their users what instances they can and cannot engage with. Which is fine, it is their server they can manage it how they like. That is not the user deciding how to interact with other instances and communities.

I see the whole federation as a bit of a paradox. Users are allowed and encouraged to interact with other instances and communities as they please. However, if the instance a user belongs to decides to defederate from another instance. Users now have to create another account to keep interacting with that instance. Which kind of defeats the purpose of federation. Now users are forced to create an account for each instance they want to continue interacting with.

The community in Beehaw are all cool people, but their weird rules and heavy filtering puts me off.

Not surprising. From looking around it seem like they want to turn beehaw into a business they can profit off of in the long run.

https://beehaw.org/post/452132

in the very, very long term, we aspire to become a co-op or similar, as a part of fulfilling our ethos.

Sounds like they just need to add a few temp mods.