to start: after some consideration, we’ve altered our entry question a little bit so that entry is not guaranteed. during the daytime you can basically expect waits of 30 minutes or less when it comes to approval/disapproval, but overnight it’ll be anywhere from 6-12 hours. just FYI
if you’d like to introduce yourself without it getting lost in all the posts already made, i just made a thread for that over here
our sidebar should give you most of the information you’re looking for about us, but to reiterate some: we are pretty relaxed here, but we have a well carved out understanding of what we want to be. if you would like more elaboration on that, you can find elaboration on that at length in the following two posts:
for some less lengthy and more relaxed elaboration, see the discussion in the comments of this post.
as for funding: we are 100% user-funded. if you would like to contribute to our ability to keep the website up, you can donate on OpenCollective, which supports both one-time donations or monthly donations.
a few other questions occasionally pop up like “why do we have the set of communities we do?” and “why can’t people make their own?” (the latter is a feature of lemmy). for elaboration on that, you can see the following post and the discussions here. we are open to suggestions and creating communities as demand sees fit; see also discussion here.
downvotes are disabled on this instance and that’s a thing we’re not liable to change. if you’d like elaboration for why that is, see this comment. this may be a point of friction for some coming from reddit, but i hope you’ll understand why we’re doing it even if you don’t necessarily agree with it.
if you’re interested in our governance to this point and a brief idea of our long term goals, see the comment here.
feel free to sound off on other questions you have; i’ll try to update the OP with those and our ability to answer them as time goes on.
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Hello, all. I’m considering migrating an existing subreddit to a Lemmy instance, and it’s great to see the community here and how it all works.
I have a question about server scaling though. Could anyone provide any insight into the size of the hardware or VPS instance that is hosting beehaw, and how many pageviews/hr or pageviews/month it supports?
Thank you in advance.
I’m looking to forget reddit. Any tips on hiding posts or filtering out common posts talking about Reddit, etc.
Subscribe to communities and set your preferences to show posts from only your subscribed communities by default on the home page.
I have a question regarding the sign-up process - given that Beehaw is federated with other instances and people can post here using other instance accounts, doesn’t that make the whole stringent sign-up requirements entirely moot? Like, if someone is denied from signing up here, what’s preventing them from posting here anyways from a different instance?
No account from a blocked instance can post here.
Like, if someone is denied from signing up here, what’s preventing them from posting here anyways from a different instance?
nothing. that’s overall good since basically of our denials are banal and a lot of them we’d be saying “hey, please reapply with more detail on why you want to be here” since i don’t think anybody’s really registering in bad faith. we also moderate them to our instance’s standards if they come here from somewhere else, obviously.
Reddit refugee here, this place seems awesome! Just wondering, as a long time Apollo user, do you have any recommendations for using how you all use this on iPhone? Are there any great apps to use, or is the mobile website our best bet for now?
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One of the reasons I’m actually using it is because I didn’t have to install a heavy app for it 🙃
I like that the website is actually nicely displayed on a mobile browser compared to reddit which makes using an app necessary.
Thanks for not federating the Tankies.
I’m thinking of making beehaw/lemmy my new reddit now that reddit is maybe becoming digg…
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I’m getting big digg exodus vibes right now.
I think it’ll happen in waves. There were the early adopters for federated servers. Then the second wave of settlers (right now), then more and more waves will happen as the commercialization of social web platforms squeeze users of everything they have.
Culture trickles up from the deep niche communities, and one by one those communities are being suffocated. It’s only a matter of time…
what’s craziest to me is that I’ve actually gone back to digg, at least for interesting article aggregation. it’s like pocket, but more frequent churn to distract me from *gestures broadly*
LOL
I legitimately thought that digg didn’t exist anymore.
I might throw it back into my rotation.I wouldn’t say it’s great, but it’s another batch of stuff to read during the day. I added it to my inoreader feed, but did end up stashing it in an “Unsure” folder because I only click on like one out of 10 of them. Still, it exists!
If reddit kills NSFW (like tumblr) we’ll see the real exodus lol
Reddit could start being more and more a porn site than anything else.
Also arrived here after this news. I mainly use rif for android, and my reddit usage will undoubtly crash. Though I’ll still be around as long as I have old.reddit + RES. Lets see how far it goes.
RES is something I’d really like here - I think there’s definitely a good plugin waiting to be developed giving things like one click to subscribe to other instances and RES-style navigation and QoL features.
I am really glad to be here , loving beehaw so far . Thank you guys for taking another refuge in 🫂
I’m glad there’s a free, open source, federated version of the thing I’ve been using for years. 4 years on digg I believe, and 13 on reddit. The more I think about the history of discussion forums like this. It probably should have been federated in the first place rather than trying to be a centralized thing.
anyway, glad to be here.
Been with Reddit since the early days, just after the migration from Digg. This is my first federated service and I love the idea. I don’t use social media outside of Reddit so while I heard of Mastadon, I didn’t really know what it was. Big companies like to run stuff into the ground.
I’m really liking the idea of Lemmy.
Mastodon, like Twitter, I just don’t really “get”. Why follow people? I want to follow topics, ideas. Centering conversations on who started them, rather than what they are about, seems strange.
I never understood Twitter or used it much except occasionally to follow links from news reports or check on the status of sites that went down. I am prone to writing longer posts than fit within the character limit and also like reading more in depth content than you get with such a short character limit, so mostly Twitter didn’t seem like my sort of environment.
Even so, I was curious about the exodus to Mastodon and tried it and Calckey out. I found lots of introductions by scientists and started following their hashtags and following individual scientists in a variety of fields that I was curious about and some of them provide links to pretty interesting articles and books in their fields. I am starting to understand the appeal of following people. Sometimes the right people can provide an inside look at a topic or serve as a curator of decent quality links relating to their area of knowledge that you might not be exposed to through lay people with the same interest.
Howdy! Left Digg when it started south, was a Redditor since May 2007, and now I’m here instead. :)
yo QUESTION. how much freedom do users have here? can i say swearsies? or talk negatively about a minority? discuss bomb making?
The easiest question to ask yourself is, can I do this while still being nice? And when I say being nice, I mean, would other people reasonably interpret this as nice?
Saying fuck yeah, for example, in celebration is very different from saying fuck you. So there’s no clear cut answer here to your questions. What matters is both intent and how it’s perceived.
can i say swearsies?
Fuck yes!
…talk negatively about a minority?
Please, no.
discuss bomb making?
Please, no.
hello! i’m excited to participate in this community and i’m looking forward to seeing how it grows. to briefly introduce myself, IRL i’m an engineering student and community activist, online i’m a writer and game developer. i speak Cebuano, English, Tagalog, and German.
i’m also on tech.lgbt (mastodon) as well if anyone wants to connect there. :)
i appreciate the community-focused perspective and the restorative justice approach to accountability that Beehaw has. i discovered this through the main lemmy site and was instantly sold. one question i have is - and sorry if what i’m asking isn’t entirely coherent, but - how does Beehaw’s governance work? is that enumerated somewhere? most social media communities are semi- or fully authoritarian, and while Beehaw seems to differ, i’m just curious if there’s some kind of document or ongoing community discussion about how Beehaw is run.
i appreciate the community-focused perspective and the restorative justice approach to accountability that Beehaw has - i discovered this through the main lemmy site and was instantly sold. one question i have is - and sorry if what i’m asking isn’t entirely coherent, but - how does Beehaw’s governance work? is that enumerated somewhere? most social media communities are semi- or fully authoritarian, and while Beehaw seems to differ, i’m just curious if there’s some kind of document or ongoing community discussion about how Beehaw is run.
right now: the governance is pretty simple so we haven’t bothered to enumerate it anywhere or anything. in the future we probably will now that we have a lot more users. we’ve talked through a lot of this stuff in the year and a half of the website to this point.
for the time being: it’s the three of us admins (me, Gaywallet, Chris Remington) currently and on anything more substantial than “obviously bad faith person” we tend to collectively talk through decisions to the best ability possible/time permitting. if we add more admins, they’ll also have that kind of input. unless otherwise stated you can pretty much assume we’ve all agreed to something if it’s in effect here. it’s not explicitly written anywhere, but i’d also say we’re interested in community input when possible (and within the confines of the mission we have), because we don’t have a website without users, lol
on the backend, Chris currently controls the website, pays our bills, and stuff like that, but all three of us have access to the components that run the website and the financials. in the event he has to step away or something similar, we will be able to take control as needed.
in the very, very long term and feasibility permitting we would like to have some sort of democratically elected board controlling the website and its broader goal (ideally a co-operative),[1] but right now we’re really just trying to keep the website going and be financially solvent.
hopefully that sort of gives an idea–i’m sure the other mods may have input here also, so i’ll shoot them this comment in the morning
and yeah, we’re aware of the potential drawbacks and points of failure that could introduce, hence why it’s a very long term goal. that’s a sort of thing we’d need to do responsibly, if we can do it at all! ↩︎
Hello everyone, another Reddit Refugee saying hello!
A bit of history, I was on Digg, and after they ruined that I joined Reddit (how many years ago was that already??). Lurking around ever since.
I really do appreciate the civil and social attitude here-- let’s build a great, open and accepting community!
