A lot of the people who have been around on Lemmy before the influx are socialists. Some of them are obnoxious, but many Beehaw users went over to that instance rather than confronting viewpoints they disagree with, and also defederating with a good handful of instances (not sure if that was restored).

Some feel that it has given the instance a very “Reddity” sort of tone, but that’s true across pretty much all of the instances to varying extents.

When people think of the “devs are ‘tankies’” discussion that’s been ongoing (who cares about their politics, cause the Reddit admins have far worse politics without catching so much heat?), Beehaw is the first instance that comes to mind, I think.

I gave it one look. The home page specified that it was, and I copypaste:

(NSFW & Loli/Shota/Cub friendly!)

Now, I personally have no problem with NSFW in general, but the rest tells me that kiddie diddlers are welcome there, which is a huge red flag imo.

Meta made a secret meeting with signed NDAs with the admins of multiple Matodon instances in preparation for their upcoming Twitter alternative. This of course wasn’t taken lightly by people and has caused divisions. This is what i think the best summary of some of the inter-instance drama that happened, maybe the best summary of events in general ever made on the history of the Fediverse