I’m in favor of either option, honestly. A whitelist or complete migration to something else.
When I joined, I wasn’t looking for a drop-in reddit replacement. I’d actually deleted my reddit account a few weeks before all the craziness went down because reddit and social news in general has a very bad habit of becoming toxic as shit.
Now, I get that I’m in a minority here. People left reddit and wanted something to replace it, but I don’t know if Beehaw was ever the right instance for that specifically.
While I don’t particularly care one way or the other about federation or the “Fediverse”, what does worry me is whether or not the platform Beehaw migrates to is better maintained than Lemmy.
If moving to something new and relatively untested, there’s a big risk that other, equally as important, development issues might crop up, especially if the dev team is relatively small.
I’m also curious to find out whether UX will be similar (eg. content aggregation with voting and whatnot) or if it’ll be something closer to older forums, though I’m aware you don’t want to really say anything until you’re decided, so I guess answers to that can wait.
Anyway, I’ll be interested to see what happens. Take your time, figure it out, and we’ll see what happens over the next few weeks.