My first account on the fediverse was on Beehaw and I was happy with it, but defederating from two of the largest instances gave me a reason to find a new instance. Personally I understand and respect the decision -that is the point of the fediverse afterall.
They had a lot of good communities that will not be cut off from the fastest growing instances which will make things tough to rebuild I think.
I think it’s unfortunate, however I’m damn glad I made my main account here so it doesn’t really impact my experience much. Them being able to make this move and community members being able to migrate to other instances if they don’t like it are what make this less of a problem than it would be otherwise. Better they show their hand early.
Yeah I just had to manually move all my subscriptions over to here which was definitely not ideal, but at least I don’t have years of content to leave behind on my old profile. Bit salty about losing my pre-blackout cake day though haha 😄
It would be great if the management of subscriptions is improved, e.g. import, export, pruning. Right now it is quite tedious to do these manually. Maybe start to write some scripts/tools to alleviate.