I started moving from Reddit to Lemmy a few days ago, and since then I’ve been forcing myself to spend time here and getting myself used to it. I quickly checked the list of popular instances and decided to join lemmy.world and not beehaw because I didn’t like their decision of defederating other big lemmy instances.
I’ve been lurking lemmy.world for a bunch of days, and I like it enough not to look back at Reddit anymore, so props to that. It feels a bit chaotic though, with many tiny communities being created all the time with very few post and comments in them.
Today I decided to take a look at beehaw’s and in perspective it feels so organized and content rich that I’m quite impressed.
I guess it comes with a big amount of moderation and organized content creation work and I wonder how sustainable is that in the long run, but props to them so far for the project!
What do you think about beehaw?
I don’t think the fediverse is a good place for beehaw. They want an echo chamber and that’s never going to happen with different instances.
They are like joining a nanny state. Not interested. Removed every group they offer after they defederated from us. They can go play alone in their sand box.
So it seems like a pretty good community to replace the need for reddit, but they apparently require an application to join. I’m not sure what the criteria is, but they rejected my request to join without giving a reason.
Personally, I find entering various parts of the fediverse more fun on broader general instances with fair moderation. Beehaw sounds nice, but also a little oppressive. And in the end, it’s still a lemmy instance.
I think it’s too early in the post-reddit days to worry about the chaos. Communities/magazines are being built with wild abandon now, but I imagine users will coalesce around a few key ones for each topic. Reddit allowed for infinite subreddits too, but eventually the popular ones took off. There’s no rush there, it should settle organically.
I do find it interesting that lemmy, in general, seems to have the momentum over kbin. But again… early days. I’m just glad they are pretty good at talking to each other, though lots of kinks to work out still.
lemmy.world feels pretty good so far to me. Good active local feed, some good homegrown communities that are working to take off, and haven’t seen too much drama yet. Good enough for now!
