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.
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!
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.
Thank you for approving my request andwelcoming me here! I wish I had found out about Beehwaw earlier, but better late than never 😉.
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.
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!
Yet another reddit refugee. Excited to be here, and thanks for having me.
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.
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.
Okay, thanks for responding.
How dose cross instance login work? I assumed I would be able to login to other servers too but I don’t seem to be able to. What happens to users if a server goes down?
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.
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
Hope there are changes. Would hate to make a new account anytime a server blows up.
hello! i’m excited to participate in this community and i’m looking forward to seeing how it grows. to briefly introduce myself, IRL i’m an engineering student and community activist, online i’m a writer and game developer. i speak Cebuano, English, Tagalog, and German.
i’m also on tech.lgbt (mastodon) as well if anyone wants to connect there. :)
i appreciate the community-focused perspective and the restorative justice approach to accountability that Beehaw has. i discovered this through the main lemmy site and was instantly sold. one question i have is - and sorry if what i’m asking isn’t entirely coherent, but - how does Beehaw’s governance work? is that enumerated somewhere? most social media communities are semi- or fully authoritarian, and while Beehaw seems to differ, i’m just curious if there’s some kind of document or ongoing community discussion about how Beehaw is run.
i appreciate the community-focused perspective and the restorative justice approach to accountability that Beehaw has - i discovered this through the main lemmy site and was instantly sold. one question i have is - and sorry if what i’m asking isn’t entirely coherent, but - how does Beehaw’s governance work? is that enumerated somewhere? most social media communities are semi- or fully authoritarian, and while Beehaw seems to differ, i’m just curious if there’s some kind of document or ongoing community discussion about how Beehaw is run.
right now: the governance is pretty simple so we haven’t bothered to enumerate it anywhere or anything. in the future we probably will now that we have a lot more users. we’ve talked through a lot of this stuff in the year and a half of the website to this point.
for the time being: it’s the three of us admins (me, Gaywallet, Chris Remington) currently and on anything more substantial than “obviously bad faith person” we tend to collectively talk through decisions to the best ability possible/time permitting. if we add more admins, they’ll also have that kind of input. unless otherwise stated you can pretty much assume we’ve all agreed to something if it’s in effect here. it’s not explicitly written anywhere, but i’d also say we’re interested in community input when possible (and within the confines of the mission we have), because we don’t have a website without users, lol
on the backend, Chris currently controls the website, pays our bills, and stuff like that, but all three of us have access to the components that run the website and the financials. in the event he has to step away or something similar, we will be able to take control as needed.
in the very, very long term and feasibility permitting we would like to have some sort of democratically elected board controlling the website and its broader goal (ideally a co-operative),[1] but right now we’re really just trying to keep the website going and be financially solvent.
hopefully that sort of gives an idea–i’m sure the other mods may have input here also, so i’ll shoot them this comment in the morning
and yeah, we’re aware of the potential drawbacks and points of failure that could introduce, hence why it’s a very long term goal. that’s a sort of thing we’d need to do responsibly, if we can do it at all! ↩︎
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!
