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 was really happy with my first account being accepted there, and was starting to build up my subscriptions with content from other instances, happy to see this whole thing working. I also made a kbin account, hoping to see both platforms evolve, and content cross pollinate. Now that beehaw defederated from those instances, suddenly I realized like half the communities I subcribed to were from those, and now I don’t want to lose either those posts or the content from beehaw itself.
So, I guess, my new “home” is here, a neutral ground between those instances. Didn’t lose much, since the accounts were only two days old, but this is a first showing of how things in the fediverse can go, I guess.