Beehaw seems to have already developed a plan to put everyone they do not like into predefined boxes so they can call those boxes bad and exclude them. Today they were discussing banning “pedantic” users - people asking questions in bad faith, in their opinion. This kind of subjective moderation is what is wrong with reddit. Beehaw is not even federated, last time I checked. You have to fill out a literal application to join. This is not new-user friendly. So that’s how I ended up here.
Have people not learned anything from their reddit experience? Beehaw is extremely massive fed flags. Its literally the same exact toxic behavior that the uber mods that hoarded subreddits and got off from power would have.
Its not a good look and im shocked people support it…
The difference is WHO FUCKING CARES? Do you not fucking get it? The fucking fediverse is not yours, mine, or theirs. If they don’t want to be a part of it they DON’T FUCKING HAVE TO.
This is as stupid as shitting yourself in furious anger that a Linux user would dare to use Linux for mathematical computing instead of serving web pages because CLEEEEARLZY there’s only one way to use the software and that’s the way that you, Stumbler, personally choose to use it.
Are you even aware that there are instances that aren’t federated? At all? Anywhere? Because you can do that. Because it’s just software and who gives a shit how anyone else chooses to use it?
How about you fucking relax? I was simply stating my criticsm and explaining that I don’t get it. I didin’t police anyone, I didint insult anyone, I just said from my point of view it makes no sense. Yet you handle a small criticsm with the social skills of a tantruming child…
Blow yourself some more. Your criticism is 100% invalid and you obviously have no fucking clue what’s going on, anywhere, in any context. You’re probably confused about the status of your socks, old man. I knew a guy! He wasn’t either.
Idk about other people, but I don’t really know how the instances work and the lemmy.world instance name seems the least abstract. Beehaw was confusing because it’s not called lemmy so idk if it’s a different thing or what, and idk what .ml means or stands for. Lemmy.world just looks like it’s the default lemmy instance to me as a dunce who doesn’t know how lemmy works.
Ya it has a great domain name and didn’t require an email when I signed up at least. I’m thinking about spinning up my own instance on AWS though since the lag and “bad gateway” stuff is annoying.
Idk about other people, but I don’t really know how the instances work and the lemmy.world instance name seems the least abstract. Beehaw was confusing because it’s not called lemmy so idk if it’s a different thing or what, and idk what .ml means or stands for. Lemmy.world just looks like it’s the default lemmy instance to me as a dunce who doesn’t know how lemmy works.
Similar for me – but add onto it, when I joined, lemmy.world was the only one of the top 3 most populated instances (with lemmy.ml and beehaw) that had open registration
Well put! I’m still very confused about “instances,” and the way people talk about them makes it seem like you need to sign up for each one? But that can’t be right, that would be way too confusing! Right? Lol.
Lemmy.world also seems like the best place to ask questions. Everyone I’ve encountered has been very helpful, and I see a lot of people talking about how positive the community is. So I’m trying to just sit back and enjoy the ride!
Imagine phone companies. An instance is like Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile or any other provider.
If you want to talk to your friends, it doesn’t really matter what instance they’re on.
A Verizon customer can still call a AT&T customer no problem. A Verizon customer doesn’t need to also sign up for AT&T to do that. It all just… works.
People talking about different instances is like people talking about different phone companies. “Verizon’s coverage is better” or “T-Mobile has better support” or that kinda thing.
All the analogies to mobile providers reminds me of the time when they’re was no interoperability for mms. Sms iirc worked but you better have the same company as a friend if you wanted to send that grainy vga photo you just took with your fancy new razr.
And are usernames unique across instances or can anyone copy anyone else’s username by signing up somewhere else with the same name or just making a new instance?
Each instance has their own users, communities and rules. A user can subscribe to any community on any instance that’s not blocked. Sometimes it’s important to know the rules of the instance the community is on, because different things are allowed.
If I’m a user on lemmy.srv.eco, for example, I can still subscribe to any lemmy.world community and post/comment/vote just like a lemmy.world user.
The only real downside of being on a smaller instance is that you’ll have to do a bit more work actively subscribing to things. An instance only pulls in a community if at least one user subscribes to it. On a big server, your all is very full of communities as there are more people subscribing to more diverse things. On a smaller instance, you’ll need to do that yourself.
The advantage of being on a smaller instance is that with less load on the server, it’ll work much faster.
Not really - it only matters if the instance where you have your account (e.g. lemmy.world, in your case) is not federated with another instance (e.g., beehaw.org).
As long as your instances are federated, you’ll be able to see everything on the other instance and vice versa.
There are weird states, such as instance A being federated to instance B but B not being federated to A. This means that users on A can see, comment, and (potentially? I think?) create posts for communities on B but no other instance (B, C, or otherwise) can see those comments/posts.
They were also running on a beefier server. On my first week I tried several instances, but lemmy.world was the most consistently up that was also in jerboa.
My leading theory is that both lemmy.world and lemmy.ml were in a list of 5+ “recommended” communities, and “world” is the only recognizable word that implies all-inclusivity. And now that the world population is so high, more people will assume that is the “default/correct” community.
I joined world because I figured it was a global community, and did not want to limit myself before I even knew what I was joining into. I may end up making 2 or 3 accounts just to have access to separate, possibly defederated, communities.
RIF specifically directed me here. I didn’t join one before that because I didn’t know which one was “best”. I honestly don’t care which one I joined, I just wanted to be on the one everyone else is on. I know this mindset somewhat defeats part is the purpose of the federated communities. I don’t care about that in the slightest I just want a clone of Reddit.
Also “world” sounds more generic/standard than ml. Most people probably think it’s a military website or something.
You’ll probably find 90%+ of casuals are in the same boat as me.
Same, though ML made me think “Machine Learning”, and that it was a more tech-focused place. This was before I realised they they’re all (broadly) the same, and assumed that they were groupings of similar topics like an old web-ring.
Lenny.ml had a pinned post asking new people to go elsewhere while beehaw was denying “membership” to their little bubble. lemmy.world was welcoming everyone with open arms.
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