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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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.
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 🙃
not sure whether it has an iOS variant but the big one everyone seems to use is Jerboa; failing that though people have given me the impression the mobile website should be usable if a little inconvenient at times.
There’s an app for iOS in beta testing called Mlem. It’s limited for now, but it works nicely.
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 another Reddit refugee as well. Seems like Reddit gave the final push for users to find and make something better. I’m excited to see what the future holds for Beehaw and Lemmy!
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.
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.
Thank you for approving my request andwelcoming me here! I wish I had found out about Beehwaw earlier, but better late than never 😉.
I am really glad to be here , loving beehaw so far . Thank you guys for taking another refuge in 🫂
My first comment in this community.
Hello. I’m just another Reddit refugee (I know, I’m not original). Thanks for allowing these rafts to get ashore, and sorry for the 500 error. I guess the influx of so many of us arriving here now can be blamed for that. Let’s hope we can also contribute to keep this a good place. Hey, older members here: any good advice for us to do so? Thanks!
For what it’s worth I was going to join Beehaw but I like downvotes. I’m still sore that YouTube removed them. So I’d like to vote for downvotes lol.
Sorry, this is not something we’re willing to budge on. You’re still, of course, welcome to participate on our instance so long as you’re nice 😊
Hi all. Another refugee from reddit that just joined today. Thanks for letting me in!
I haven’t given up entirely on reddit, but I’m getting pretty darn close. Been a redditor for nearly 13yrs now. I’ve also been on Tildes for 4yrs now. I’ve tried various reddit-likes over the years including Imzy and Voat (before it turned into a raging cesspool).
Anyway, let’s see how this fediverse stuff goes. Not sure I entirely understand how federated services work, but excited to find out.
Is registration for new users still open? I applied for a new account some time ago.
yes but:
1: we have a new entry question;
and 2: we’re seeking clarification from the lemmy devs on something which is really important to how we’ve been doing approvals or denials
so everything is kind of awkward right now. we’re definitely not approving users at quite the pace we were.
I’m a reddit refugee too. It’s so interesting to see that almost all the comments are 1) from actual people, and 2) conversing in way actual humans might if they weren’t on the internet.
