Beehaw dominates my feeds by having many of the most popular groups and posts. And yet, I can’t participate in a single one, despite having two accounts on two of the other major instances. Neither are accepted there.
Fine! I’ll make a Beehaw too so I can, you know, actually participate.
But no I have to apply? And I have to give reasons of why I should be let in? The fuck?
Well my application was rejected, I guess for being to vague on what I was joining for? I’m joining for a variety of communities and uses, as I’m sure most users are, so wtf kind of questions are those anyway.
Use a god damn captcha and let people fucking have accounts and use the fucking platform.
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…
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.
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
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
Just use some other instance there
My understanding is that it’s because Lemmy is lacking some moderation/admin utilities. Basically, a few of their members are getting threatened with violence or something and the only way to stop them getting messages sent to them is to de-federate (at least for a little while).
Their goal is to make their members feel safe. With federation, it’s not like you can just report a user and expect the admins to all act similarly—different instances and all.
Edit: As mentioned below I forgot a key point: They intend to re-federate once the tools are in place. This is temporary.
I mean there was a crybaby community squatter today right here on lemmy world who created an account to load up thousands of garbage named communities and try to get them on the Trending board after being banned for breaking the rules.
That’s probably the kind of trash person Beehaw is trying to keep from ruining the experience there.
