Beehaw is moderated by 4 people. There was a wave of trolls from lemmy.world and one other instance, that doesn't restrict account creation. So, they decided to unfederate from those instances atleast as a temporary measure, until there are better moderation options.
"It is too big and we can't deal with that many users".
Albeit indistiguishable, trolls should not be consdered equivalent to users.
Sorry, added link with source now.
dismissing the ongoing campaign for equal rights as 'US culture war stuff' is awfully heartless, don't you think?