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Lack of moderation tools link // The choice to defederate from an instance can also be based on our inability to effectively moderate that instance’s users. As of now, only two of our defederations are on this basis (lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works), and we hope to eventually refederate with both of them.
It was less about LW and SJW being “poorly moderated”, and more about being large enough that they were bringing a lot of mod work for Beehaw.
IIRC when that happened lemm.ee was still small. (Note that the page was last updated 8m ago.)