I really fear that they all awake at the same time and flood / attack our instances.. This seems to be a temporary solution but time consuming for you. Beehaw defederated too from a list of instances. Maybe this list could help you :
based on the list of instances made by @sunaurus here - Thank you again for that work, it’s highly appreciated.
This is a preventive measure against massive amounts of accounts being created for botting purposes. Most instances banned appear to be 1 user instances so we don’t think this will have a great effect on anyone’s usage of Beehaw. If you are an admin of one of those instances, feel free to contact us at support@beehaw.org