It should be noted somewhere on the login screen, maybe with an asterisk, that beehaw.org is not fully federated, restricted, however it needs to be termed.
Since account creation does not happen in the app, but requires visiting the instance’s home page, where registration requirements, federation status and other peculiarities are plainly visible, I don’t think this belongs in the app.
No one is ever “fully federated”. Even Lemmy.world most likely blocks some spam/nafarious instances. It would be tough to define what fully federated would mean.
I think the better approach would be a message telling you when you’re trying to engage with an instance that isn’t federated to you.
You can see a list of instances that your instance is federated with and blocks at /instances. For example lemmy.world only blocks one instance https://lemmy.world/instances
https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
Scroll down to the full list. The BI column is how many other instances that instance is blocking. BB is how many instances that instance is blocked by.
Beehaw is currently blocking 387 other instances. Lemmy.world is blocking 1 tiny instance for some reason. Beehaw is blocked by none. Lemmy.world is blocked by 2.
Beehaw defederated with lemmy.ml?
With lemmy.world and others
How is Beehaw not fully federated?
They’re defederating with instances left and right. And pushing for mod tools for the communities hosted on the instance but for users from other instances. They seem more interested in sculpting a walled garden with the illusion of agreeableness.
