- Beehaw admins explained the move in this post: https://beehaw.org/post/567170
- This post explains what it means for
lemmy.world
andsh.itjust.works
users: https://lemmy.world/post/149743.
In short, they were having trouble maintaining their moderation standards. In an incredibly short-sighted move, they've split the lemmyverse... offloading the costs of their moderation choices to the rest of us who now have to deal with incredibly confusing asymmetrical replication.
They've called this move temporary, but there's no schedule for restoring federation and no set list of criteria for when will enable that to happen. I would say it's more "open-ended" in that they haven't committed to defederating forever, but there's no useful limit on the duration of the defederation either.