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Because we can. Because that's how federation works. If you don't like this instance, go to another. Or make meaningful strides to make this one what you would like. Beehaw already defederated from Lemmy.world, so I can't even see it. It's just a preference and if there is no activy at any given instance... Then that's fine. Maybe each find its own community preferences and rules. Maybe you just participate in both like many people are.
If we had a large user base, I would totally see the value, but right now lemmy is still relatively small. Don't you think new content will be too slow? Especially the rust community with around 300 subs for each one.
As I see it perfect is the enemy of the good in this case. Rules, official or unofficial, on the "correct way" to do things stifle growth especially when there's few contributing users. That little extra barrier is enough to keep many people from even bothering at all. You want people to be engaged and excited rather than feeling they're beholden to a bureaucracy. Or worse beholden to an existing group of power users that control things by being the first or the loudest.