Hello All, First time poster here. I would just like to say that i tried signing up for beehaw.org but they have some kind of purity test that reminds me of Reddit. Don’t ever sign up for beehaw, that is going to be one hell of a drama filled instance.

[–] Zetaphor@zemmy.cc 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Ironically all of the drama and complaining seems to be coming from instances outside of Beehaw, being dramatic and complaining about Beehaw. The content there is actually good.

[–] gila@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Really it's just drama caused by the platform not maturing yet. Beehaw's reasons behind defederating from large instances like lemmy.world are valid, but it's not like other instances made them do it. It's a choice they made to be able to create the space they want in lieu of proper mod tools. Hope they realise it won't be an overnight fix, and the longer they stick to their guns the greater the risk of their communities fizzling out, which would be a shame as I agree they are some of the best.

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[–] Daisy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Drama? Ooooh brb

[–] Widowmaker_Best_Girl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just remember to not piss in the popcorn.

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[–] SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net 7 points 2 years ago

That's great and imma let you finish but remember that decentralization is strength on the fediverse. Join or create other instances, join or create communities on other instances, thats our strength.

On the fediverse, instances come and go. I've seen big instances go down either permanently or temporarily, and ive also seen big communities decide they're turning off federation. The only way to be safe from that is to decentralize, so if something happens there's still something worth doing on the fediverse.

Besides that though, congratulations lemmy.world, I love to see the thrediverse Renaissance we're in, and nothing but love for the folks running this instance and the folks participating on it.

[–] JujuT@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

lemmy.world is probably leading because it’s easy to sign up

[–] SolDaMan@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I mean, i would rather have an easy sign up then go through a shitty purity test like beehaw.org makes you go through.

[–] TheCookieButter@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wrote 2 short paragraphs for the Beehaw entry and a week later was denied. By that point I was already on Lemmy.World.

I really don't know what else they wanted me to say to be honest. I'd be interested in seeing some accepted applications but seems excessive.

[–] apochryphal_triptych@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The very same thing happened to me. It's amazing to me how fast Lemmy.world has grown in the few weeks I've been here!

[–] Beliriel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Same for me. The only thing beehaw now has that interests me is the technology community, which seems fairly active. Other than that it died for me there. For what? Because they couldn't deal with a few trolls? And they want their own walled garden for site applications?

[–] JujuT@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Exactly! Or a waitlist like lemmy.ml. There’s probably going to be some issues with so many people in this instance, but it’s better than an echo chamber.

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[–] egeres@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's awesome to see the growth, but as a small question, why don't all the instances upgrade to version 0.18? Maybe that version isn't stable enough?

[–] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (8 children)

0.18 removed checks and balances to limit bot signups. lemmy.world won't upgrade until this is in place.

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[–] Zetaphor@zemmy.cc 2 points 2 years ago

To clarify the vague "checks and balances" statement that you were given, it was the captcha feature. It will be added back in 0.18.1

[–] AskThinkingTim@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Back in my day lemmy.ml was the biggest instance.

[–] mashhitmyself@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Last Tuesday.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

y'all are cracking me up... time sure does fly by. i want to practice being present. that's what i should do.

[–] tamtt@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Account age: 1 week

Yep checks out

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[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

We did it Reddit!

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

NGL I thought Blajah would be higher given that 196 moved there

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[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I joined world because it was the little one, with like 100 active users according to the stats on the signup page. Hmph.

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[–] Negative_Pair_5694@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Also lemmy.world is extremely slow in pushing out messages to other instances, if at all. So leading the pack is not necessarily the best thing until you figure out scaling.

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[–] syl@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Good. It is important to have different instances to distribute the load though. However, I hope there are not many people joining BeeHaw...

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope there are not many people joining BeeHaw…

I don't hope that, exactly, I just hope that the people who join understand what they're getting (and, more importantly, what they aren't). I fully support a community with a different goal than most, and their goal seems like a wholesome one. I personally think it's doomed to failure, but I support them giving it a try. They're barely part of the fediverse though.

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There still some good instances that Beehaw is federated with, but my personal issue is that it feels very fragile. If a couple of bigots show up on other instances and the mods don't delete their posts right away, will Beehaw defederate from them? There is a line between protecting your users and barring them from accessing anything you don't approve of, and I think they need to figure out where they stand in regards to that line. Beehaw feels more like a small forum than a piece of something bigger.

Defederating because of raiding, harassment, bots, etc is 100% understandable but it should not be done lightly.

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[–] kreijstal@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

its a monopoly stooop it

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now show us a chart differentiating between robots and sentient users.

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[–] phillycodehound@geddit.social 2 points 2 years ago

how cool is that!

[–] MrComradeTaco@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

What's the number #6 instance?

[–] zombuey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

man all I did was make a couple of comments on reddit.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It's great to see Lemmy world growing so fast! As I'm still trying to grasp how to the Fediverse works in practice, how much does one need to 'trust' the lemmy instance?

If the instance is shut down or the owner enacts policies the community doesn't agree with, what happens to all of the content and communities in the instance?

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

More users does not ALWAYS mean a good thing.

[–] Xylinna@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You are correct and Lemmy.World and others will experience growing pains and will have their own share of issues but the positive of this is that more users means more content.

[–] TWrecks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You are correct, but it at least shows that we are attracting more users (albeit, that doesn't mean quality).

I believe its a positive thing though, as it shows that the "normies" are seriously considering alternatives; outside of us niche, nerds here for the tech and the anti-corpo mindset.

[–] Thesongthatneverends@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I am decidedly not a niche nerd here for tech reasons. I just got pretty fed up with Reddit and it’s ridiculousness. I’m a 40 year old mom just here to cruise around the internet and find interesting things. So you are correct - the “normies” are starting to look for alternatives!

[–] go_spurs_go@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just showed up here. We'll see how long I stay, but hoping this will be my social media fix each morning. If there are enough folks who feel the same, it will be.

[–] xyzinferno@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been using it for about a week now, and it already is.

Of course, there's a handful of subreddits that I miss and feel the urge to go back to every now and then, but I realize that there is enough content on Lemmy to satisfy me during my coffee breaks. And it's enough to keep me from going back.

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