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.
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.
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 🙃
There’s an app for iOS in beta testing called Mlem. It’s limited for now, but it works nicely.
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.
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 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.
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 am really glad to be here , loving beehaw so far . Thank you guys for taking another refuge in 🫂
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.
Thanks for the warm welcome, I’m happy to see somewhere new besides Reddit (Yet another Reddit refugee, natch). New to federated type content, and I was initially thrown off by the multiple server style, rather than the central system Reddit employs, so this is going to be a learning experience. Please forgive any faux pas on my part while I get acquainted _
An easy way to think about federation is similar to email
When you set up an account on a centralised service, your username is simply “duskyheaps” as you only go to the one site.
With federation, you have a collection of servers and you create an account on one instance and so you become “duskyheap@beehaw.org”.
You could create an account on lemmy.ml and that would be “duskyheaps@lemmy.ml”.
Once you account for this, you’ll find it easier to find people or communities on other servers. Off the top of my head and this maybe incorrect but it would be something like “beehaw.org/community@instance.org” (I’ll come back and edit this to correct it)
edit 2: Before anyone gets confused by this comment, here is some solution. The examples here are how a web browser displays the URL in the address field. For a link to work in the federation, the browser must be made to assume we want to link to another webpage within the same domain (that is, the server we are logged on to). This is done by omitting the domain from a HTML referance. Of course. It’s W3C standard. See this post which clarified it: https://lemmy.ml/post/1168136.
… unfortunately, links to federated posts and comments are still broken because posts synced to other instances get a different ID than the original.
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“beehaw.org/c/community@instance.org” – example: beehaw.org/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
or lemmy-specific syntax that will bring up a list of communities known to your instance as you type, and choosing from there will make it a link: “!community@instance.org” – example: !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
… unfortunately, this dosnt work for lnksedit: seems that i just uncovered a
bugsystemic inconvenience, because the link that is generated leads you directly to that instance’s webserver … which we don’t want if this is posted on our home instance (because the link should actually enable us to post on that remote instance). otoh, if we are viewing this from a third instance, then a link “instance2.org/c/community@instance.org” would likely not work at all. (right?)
check: beehaw.org/sopuli.xyz/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml – nope!
check: /c/lemmy@lemmy.ml – yep!
Howdy! Left Digg when it started south, was a Redditor since May 2007, and now I’m here instead. :)
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!
Hello, all - YARR (Yet Another Reddit Refugee).
The coming shutdown of all 3rd party Reddit apps finally pushed me into action. I’ve been enjoying Mastodon and excited to checkout Lemmy
I read this as you just saying YARRRR like a pirate lol
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!
