I’ve noticed a drop off in several communities on PieFed.social since, and people saying that they wanted to migrate their community or account but now have not.

Tbf if that’s what the instance admin wants it be - mainly for serious content rather than an open and welcoming space - that’s absolutely fine, it’s just a transparency issue where there seems a mismatch between what is said vs. the actual direction it is headed towards.

And I would have hoped that such an unpopular anti-feature would have been made as opt-in rather than opt-out.