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’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 like that the website is actually nicely displayed on a mobile browser compared to reddit which makes using an app necessary.
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I’m not the best person to answer as i’m new too. But it’s not really cross instance login. The way you access/comment on the other instances is by going to the communities page on here, looking for the communities hosted on those instances (so it’ll say [email protected] for example), and then you can access it through there, subscribe, post, comment, etc. But if you try to go to lemmy.ml directly on your browser the account you have here can’t be used to log in on there.
So to answer your second question, if beehaw goes down you can’t access this account you’re using unfortunately
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You won’t be able to login to other servers. You will, however, be able to interact with others servers from beehaw. For example, if you search for “technology”, you will see beehaw.org/c/[email protected], and you can subscribe, post, upvote, etc… All from beehaw.
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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.
Thank you for having me, Another reddit refugee.
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…
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.
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!
Glad to bee here, sad seeing reddit go out like twitter. But I guess that’s what happens when you put profit over users.
Excited to be a part of it!
Hoping to see it improve as time goes on but so far I’m really enjoying it!
Thanks for not federating the Tankies.
Yet another reddit refugee. Excited to be here, and thanks for having me.
thanks for having me :)
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 “[email protected]”.
You could create an account on lemmy.ml and that would be “[email protected]”.
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/[email protected]” (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/[email protected]” – example: beehaw.org/c/[email protected]
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: “[email protected]” – example: [email protected]
… 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/[email protected]” would likely not work at all. (right?)
check: beehaw.org/sopuli.xyz/c/[email protected] – nope!
check: /c/[email protected] – yep!
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 😊
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.
Here’s to the Digg 4.0 > reddit API $$$ > Lemmy crew!
Represent! Love being a part of history. I’ll tell my kids about this some day.
Somehow “the first rule of reddit” got forgotten, and suddenly everyone knew about it. That’s about when it went downhill.
Thanks - I saw your reply about Beehaw having been up for a year and a half; if I’d of just dug a bit m0re before asking… :P This post, and links, answer all my questions - I’m st0ked to be here, l33t speak and all. :P Thanks for all the great Beehaw informationz here, seems very transparent… for now. :P I’m glad to be here, and to dig around this Lemmy softwarez and federations… maybe I’ll lurk beyond Beehaw… in a bit.
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