Beehaw: You should join our instance.
Also Beehaw: We’re defederating from two of the largest instances.
It’s a safe space and the fediverse rapidly expanded tenfold. Beehaw has stated outright that they want to refederate with the big instances, but are delaying until mod tools improve enough to allow them to maintain their safe space for their gaggle of vulnerable folks in the wake of the severely increased workload.
That’s nice and all, but “join our instance” and “we’re defederated from the other two biggest instances” are in direct opposition to each other, doesn’t matter what excuses you use.
Only if you don’t think about it are they not mutually exclusive ideas. Safe space first, increase size of safe space second.
Unless you use a client with multiaccount support
Safe space, or echo chamber?
Gotta love how spending time with like-minded people has now been framed as an “echo chamber.” I blame reddit, since that’s where I first encountered this nonsense.
I’m fine with my “echo chambers.” We are able to have really in-depth, adult discussions about things like LGBTQIA issues, mental health, and politics without having to constantly swat away a bunch of sea lions.
You do realize that associating with primarily people who share the same views or values as you is literally an echo chamber right?
Sometimes people want to have a conversation without someone with the username DMmeYourNudes wanting to debate them.
That’s an echo chamber lol.
No, it’s a community of people discussing things that they know a lot about.
You’re basically going “Oh, you don’t want the pigeon to join your chess tournament? Are you scared it will outplay you while shitting on the board?”
Nope. That term is only used by sea lions and shitlords. It’s one of those terms like “virtue signaling” that immediately lets you know the person has less to offer society than a common housefly or roach.
I argue with fascists, exclus, medicalists, and sexists all the time and I’ve never met a sealion. But I have met neurotypical people who expect their sense of cognitive empathy to work on neurodivergent people, and then project all sorts of BS onto them for having a different opinion. IME that term is a dogwhistle for ableism.
EDIT: Just looked up Beehaw’s guidelines and apparently it’s against the guidelines to accuse someone of sealioning so maybe Beehaw isn’t so bad
You’ve never spent any time on reddit, I take it?
That’s a whole colony of sea lions.
Lucky you, but I encounter sea lions all the time. People like Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro have formed entire careers around sea-lioning.
Well see, sealioning is feigning ignorance, and it’s a simple fact that bigots really are that ignorant. I’ve never met anyone who understood progressive issues and still disagreed, except for amoral people who chose to have little investment and wouldn’t bother to engage in sealioning. This idea you’re proposing that there are people who pretend to be ignorant doesn’t make any sense to me. If they are acting like foolish bigots, I choose to believe them.
It’s literally a safe space, you absolute sea lion.
Please go back to reddit
Sounds like it’s a bit of both tbh
Beehaw: You should join our instance
Where does it say that?
This isn’t Reddit/Meta/𝕏, there are no ads, data mining is free for all, you aren’t the product, this is a service to the users. A rabbi would reject you 3 times before considering letting you join the club, Beehaw only asks you to explain yourself once. If you don’t know why to join, then don’t 🙂
Beehaw: We’re defederating from two of the largest instances.
Is “largest” a good thing? Reddit is even larger, is that better?
People split into smaller communities anyway, all a “larger” instance does is reduce the granularity of behaviors, shoving everyone into the same bin. Not all people want to be with all others all the time, smaller instances of like-minded people make it easier to pick your own crowds.
Holy shit guys. If they wanted to have that requirement let them have it, if people wanted to fulfill it and join its good for them. If they wanted to defederate, thats ok too.
Not everyone needs to do what you do.
I’m still a little sad that both solarpunk and beehaw just straight up didn’t respond to my essays back when there weren’t that many lemmy instances yet.
I don’t remember if I ever got an email either. I just figured out I was approved once I was able to log on.
I also must say I never wrote an essay lol. Just a few words.
Same, and I literally just wrote “I think Beehaw would be a good fit for me”
They denied me when I wrote basically that, and apparently when you are denied that username is then banned.
They had a bug where if you were denied it was supposed to send a notification with a link allowing you to elaborate, but those notices didn’t go out. Then, when you’ve applied but gotten stuck in the unapproved state, your user account exists but is disabled, this you can’t make a new account with that same name. Sort of a sucky situation all around.
I like reddthat, no issues so far
I’m on both of those and never got an email, I just tried logging in after a while and it worked.
I wrote 3 - 4 sentences and got in.
They want people to join who will make an effort to contribute to their community.
So their “”“essay”“” requirement is working if it keeps out people who think that writing a couple lines is “mental”.
I earnestly wrote a couple of lines, and then a week later they replied that they don’t have enough information to decide, at which point I just threw my hands up and decided for them. I don’t need that kind of pedantic hoop jumping in my private life.
They want to know if your views will mesh well with the community they are trying to curate before they let you in.
I browsed Beehaw for a bit before deciding that it did, and mentioned it in my application.
I think they’re a bit more choosy now, as I used to see folks spouting things like “can you not use the word ‘minorities’? It shows a bias. You need to address everyone, not give preferential treatment,” or some other dumb horseshit.
Honestly, I think they just don’t want to have to deal with people saying stupid shit and they’re tired of trying to argue with people who A). genuinely hold stupid, shitty beliefs, or B). are trolling/pretending to be stupid in order to get a reaction.
More power to them, if that’s the case.
So what’s their opinion on bi lesbians, sysmedicalism, xenogenders, and cluster B ableism?
Removed by mod
I bet they’re glad to not get people like you who use ableist slurs.
Removed by mod
Ableist slur
What is it a slur against people with crippling IBS? Lol
The beauty of the fediverse. You have the choice of multiple projects and for each project many instances covering political, technical and other points of view. Each of those able to curate and moderate the experience to fit in with expectations.
If none of those suit you, you can make your own.
I totally understand what beehaw are trying to do. If there was no choice there might be a problem but, there is plenty of choice.
It’s nice here, but we aren’t totally safe from drama either. In the Kbin Codeberg for example, issue #196 attracted the ire of another developer
Care to elaborate what was said?
It’s not overly long or complicated but here’s a summary:
Original: Codeberg Kbin/kbin-core, Issue #196
OP: Hey Kbin dev, you’re using my code without attribution.
[Comments from other users]
Kbin dev: Oops, my bad. Here are a couple ways I can fix it. What would you prefer?
OP: Attribution.
[Additional comments about license stuff and the nature of open source software]
Kbin dev: Working on it.
OP: [Details of suggested fix].
Issue closed.
I need to take my blood pressure medication now. Thanks a lot.
I saw the post they’re referencing, and it was a lot more heated than they’re making it out to be. It was ultimately resolved, but it would definitely qualify as drama imo
Kbin uses codeberg? I might move to kbin because they’re chad
Kbin is part of the Fediverse, 𝖄𝖔𝖚’𝖗𝖊 𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖚𝖘 𝖓𝖔𝖜
Seriously, I must’ve hit the jackpot or something picking instances because it’s been pretty much nothing but a stable, drama-free experience for me there
Theres drama?
Don’t forget people on single user instances too! It feels pretty good watching drama and not having to worry about how this affects me.
Why DO you wanna join? Is it to make sure everybody is nice to you?
Uh, Yeah. If you’re going to give me the choice. My free time is limited, why share it with assholes?
Catharsis? Relatability?
I like being an abrasive prick, so I try to keep it to the disingenuous, the wilfully ignorant, and the maliciously belligerent.
Be a dick to an asshole, save a pussy.
The cognitive dissonance is off the fucking charts we’re gonna need to call in FEMA
Jfc
I literally told them I like their animal community and want to look at animals and mentioned how I feel about bunnies and that was that, I’m an official beehaw member who can look at animals whilst signed on to beehaw lol they’re not for everyone and that’s fine because they’re not trying to be for everyone. If it does seem like a place you want to join they’re not insane about sign up, just give them a good reason you want to be there besides like “trolling lolz”.
If there is anything new for Lemmy as far as I have joined, it’s always the heckin’ instance wars, just pick one and be happy with it Also, there are a lot of instances that require written stuff for joining as an extra filter to avoid bots and trolls ¯_(ツ)_/¯
You need to put \\\ for the right arm to show up correctly.
Just don’t ban me for an arbitrary reason you’ll never explain and you’re worlds better than Reddit
Honestly I’m considering leaving even .world. Mods have just been feeling too Reddit-like recently.
I guess that’s the nice thing about the fediverse though.
usually all you need is just need 1 sentence.
My response was “because I’d like to be a member of a second instance.”. They rejected my application.
I wrote an essay because i want to brag about being able to write an essay in a foreign language. You can’t stop me , muahahaha !
I just browse their communities from another instance. It’s not like you have to be a member to engage with a particular instance. It might harder to find an instance’s community on your instance because nobody on your instance has subscribed to the community, kick-starting the feed to start populating with its content, but using the outside/3rd party instance/community search tools, I’ve subscribed to several communities across several instances, all from my preferred instance account.
The only benefit I could see to being specifically on Beehaw is that you would be somewhat shielded from content coming from instances they defederated with; and it’s a big blanket ban. Maybe some of the communities on a blocked instance aren’t piles of shit. I, personally, would rather start with an entirely open instance and block what I don’t want to see myself, over letting someone else make that choice for me.
Why would I want to join “Beehaw”? Is it any better than Lemmyworld?
Don’t know about beehaw but lemmy.world was really getting on my nerves with how slow it was and how often it was down. Lemm.ee has been a much better experience for me.
I know some peeps are annoyed at the thought of instance drama or writing essays etc. But this is exactly what I wanted.
