Beehaw is single handedly ruining my experience on Lemmy

JanoRis, 10 months ago

I just have one account for kbin.social and one for lemmy.world. Kbin lets me participate on beehaw aswell if I wish to do so.

It gives me two different approaches of the fediverse to test, which i like.

lwuy9v5, 10 months ago

The never even responded to my application weeks ago :( There’s definitely way more conversation on other instances though. Beehaw used to be second biggest

Omnimater, 10 months ago

I’ve been using mostly all and local feeds as opposed to my subs to try and explore and find groups, but I swear the number of times I go to comment on a post only to find it’s either a beehaw or via beehaw and I can’t interact at all is about 2/3 of the time

4am, 10 months ago

I think you can interact, it’ll just only be visible to lemmy.world

tatertime, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I think right now everyone wants to join beehaw because its big. Beehaw doesn’t want to be big, it wants to be safe for its users and as a result defederated a ton of instances to maintain it. you’re not missing anything by leaving beehaw behind. It’s a blip on the radar in these early days. Yesterday i was kinda mad about it too, today I have just moved on and guess what…it’s fine. I guess they plan on refederating at some point with lemme world and shitjustworks but for now, they are maintaining their community as they see best. I don’t think it will work long term because as people get acquainted with what it actually means to defederate and how it creates an echo chamber (many don’t yet understand how visibility of comments works on defederated lemmys), people on the outside will stop wanting in and people on the inside won’t even realize how bubbled they have become.

aski3252, 10 months ago

Beehawk has been a small and tightly knit community for years now, not just by sheer luck, but by extreme moderation… Even before this whole reddit fiasco when Lemmy was pretty much dead comparatively, you had to apply to be allowed on their server, which is completely fine, they make the rules…

Use a god damn captcha and let people fucking have accounts and use the fucking platform.

This isn’t reddit and people need to really really start to understand that… Lemmy isn’t a commodity, it is not a business. You have 0 right to use ANY lemmy server that you don’t pay for yourself, so please stop with this entitled attitude…

boredtortoise, 10 months ago

Just use some other instance there

orientalsniper, 10 months ago

I think I read somewhere down the line beehaw will refederate with lemmyworld.

flop, 10 months ago

Yeah in their announcement they said it was temporary. Still a bit of a frustrating solution for such a large instance.

Omnimater, 10 months ago

Maybe they should be federated at the MOST critical time for the entire platform? Just a thought, idk, maybe I’m crazy

orientalsniper, 10 months ago

Have you tried signing up with a federated instance? beehaw.org/instances

hawkwind, 10 months ago

I’m sure there is an instance that has open registration that beehaw is federated with. It’s not private information: beehaw.org/instances

Rebelappliance, 10 months ago

I have a similar problem. Can’t participate. I applied and was rejected. Not sure what they’re looking for, but I’m not writing a paper just so I can discuss video games.

flop, 10 months ago

It feels like it has a very small instance vibe, but blew up because it was an early one with some stability. At a point might just be worth blocking the communities you see from beehaw and just find conversation elsewhere :\