No way to create communities on Beehaw

When I load Lemmy.ml, the option is there even when I'm not logged in, however the option is missing from beehaw completely, why?

2 comments

All of the persons involved with the Beehaw project decided to set it up this way.
- So doesn't that mean that beehaw isn't acting as a federated instance of lemmy but rather a walled garden?
  
  I guess my second question is, is it possible to migrate to another instance in the same way you can do on mastodon?