It's certainly not cool. They could have just put out the call for some help instead of deciding to fuck a bunch of Lemmy users who've just been joining the biggest community for a given topic - a community frequently on beehaw. But they want a walled garden so I guess that's what they're going to get. It sucks because I joined this instance specifically because I felt like it wouldn't be infested with fuckin' Nazis and hateful people like every other reddit alternative since forever, I didn't think that meant it would be walled off because of that pursuit. Here we are though, I personally will avoid beehaw communities from now on even when they refederate with the instance I've moved to, I don't want to post a bunch in the music community (like I have been) just to wake up and find it gone. I know I said I don't fault them but the more I get into moving and seeing how it affects non beehaw users the more yeah I really kinda do.

Edit: I've removed my content from this instance, I will leave this here as reasoning.

Well I won't fault you but that seriously hampers my experience using Lemmy so guess I'll go make another account on another instance.

Edit: the more I recreate my account the more annoyed I am by this, you literally have the communities everyone joined and just ripped them away from most of Lemmy's user base. Not cool.