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.

Beehaw has federated. That's why

Growing pains, exacerbated by this instance having a low user count.

When I went to https://lemmyrs.org/c/news@beehaw.org it worked, but https://lemmyrs.org/c/politics@beehaw.org initially showed a 404 until I searched for the community causing this server to fetch it. No-one had looked at it before from here, and it's an open issue in Lemmy that only new comments (or ones searched for by url) will show.