To explore instances (including Beehaw) without restrictions, I created this instance. To be listed on join-lemmy.org, my instance should have at least 5 active users, according here. So would any 4 people consider signing up? The instance host is lemy.lol.
Note that im using lemmony to be in sync with all communities of fediverse.
Update: 5 people signed up except me, my test user account and my community seeder account! Thanks to everyone involved in this!
I can also see, if it doesn’t exist already, communal ban lists that people can voluntarily apply to their instance. If the ban list gets heavy handed, people won’t use it.
Yes, this is absolutely a thing - there’s a shared list that most of Mastodon has gotten behind. Not without drama of course, but generally it seems to be working well.