I can consistently access a couple of tech communities at beehaw.org, but consistently cannot access politics@beehaw.org or news@beehaw.org.
Is this by design, or is it growing pains? I’m willing to wait if it’s likely to get fixed but I’ll get another account elsewhere if that’s just how our federation is set up.
It’s growing pains.
Also, you should know that beehaw has defederated from two of the largest instances because they don’t like their open sign-up policy. They chose this due to them having too much work for their administration instead of getting more help.
I would focus on other news and politics communities and let beehaw do their own thing.