Have a look, it’s quite good!
If you want to comment but your instance is defederated (e.g. Lemmyworld or sh.itjust.works), you might consider creating an alt on another instance.
I hope they’ll refederate sh.itjust.works soon.
Ehh…I specifically joined casual conversation because lemmy.world users are banned there. I’d rather not make an alt to communicate with any Beehaw communities anymore if they are not interested in having users like us to begin with. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I see where they come from, to be honest. Due to the very high number of people on LW, you have more toxic users (even if it’s only 1% of the population who are toxic, as LW monthly active users is 19k Vs 1,7k on Beehaw, that’s 10 times more toxic users).
Selecting people based on their willingness to have an alt elsewhere seems to be the filter they chose.
I can also understand why they see centralisations of so many users on LW as a bad thing (I’m not the biggest fan of that either).
I do get it to an extent. I think the most frustrating part about it for me was that Beehaw was like the second biggest instance for some time. I enjoyed participating in there for a while until they suddenly effectively “banned” me and tons of others from communicating there without any sort of warning or anything.
If they had always been defederated from us or if they had always been a smaller instance or if they had made some announcements or literally any sort of action before going nuclear, I wouldn’t have been as frustrated and soured by them.
I see. Hopefully after a while you might give it another try, they are still nice!
Why did they defederate?
Historically, it’s because when the large Reddit influx started, LW and sh.itjust.works didn’t ask for email verification, allowing a number of trolls and others to register there.
Beehaw saw an influx if users unaware of the heavy moderation in Beehaw, so they decided to defederate.
They were discussing refederation not so long ago in !support@beehaw.org
https://lemmy.today/post/542184?scrollToComments=true this post kind of makes it seem like they don’t want people who left Reddit for lemmy on there?
Maybe I’m wrong, like I hope I’m wrong? I was interested in joining communities like that have good amount of activity. I don’t mind being in smaller ones like this though as long as there’s like a few comments here and there.
They general feeling is that some people who left Reddit are a bit toxic, and people on Beehaw are afraid that those people would bring the toxicity to their community.
Based on our interactions, you seem quite nice, so you should be fine.
Well thank you. I try my best to be nice even in online spaces.
