Personally, While i appreciate the good moderation and have never had issues here. I have noticed that communities are a lot smaller when viewed from here?
Anyone else think here is a little too closed off?
In short, and mirroring what seems to the general sentiment: no. I like it here, and I like the heavy moderation and intolerance towards intolerance 🙂
I’ve yet to see a Beehaw de-federation action that I disagree with.
I don’t really mind. I created an alt on a larger lemmy instance a while back to subscribe to meme communities, and to be quite honest the comments are really bad, frequently as bad or worse than Reddit. I think Beehaw is just aiming for something different than other instances. Then again, I’m old enough to have been part of forums where the pace of discussions was much slower than most aggregator style sites are today so it doesn’t really bother me.
This is actually my first comment because I am new here but I like that about beehaw especially when it comes to defederating from the problematic instances.
No. I have a few fediverse accounts, Beehaw, Kbin, Leminal, SlrPnk, and 2 mastodon ones that I made cause I didn’t know what would stick.
Beehaw is by far my favorite. It looks like most of my issues are already covered here. Lemmy.world specifically is so awful, for every 1-3 normal, chill people looking for a reddit alternative there’s 5-10 powermods and powerusers who make it just unbearable. It’s the same for quite a few others too, that at this point I can’t even keep track.
In order of values based on curation, Beehaw, Kbin, Slpnk/Leminal. Beehaw needs no curation as it is curated, Kbin despite the issues lately has generally been great, a few users who act poorly but that’s just a widespread thing online. It’s really just been the spam accounts lately. Then… Instances that are federated with .world/etc like slrpnk and leminal, by default it’s just so awful to read. Browsing not logged in on places? Oh man. The perspectives, rhetoric, and visible mod abuse is just so bad right now thanks to the U.S. political year, in some ways worse than Reddit pre-extreme corpo takeover.
Because of all of this, I really appreciate how easy Beehaw is. You can talk philosophy and have differences of opinion and it’s not something that lingers. Beehaw, like a small community, has people you recognize and see around and I appreciate everyone I see here, and rarely have I disagreed. And I’m not coming from an echo-chamber perspective, but the way we carry ourselves. The snark here is minimal, humorous, and when it happens, seems warranted. When it isn’t, genuine apology occurs. That’s something that doesn’t happen often. People put effort into comments, there’s occasional one-liners which I’m guilty of myself when I’m just browsing or tired or it’s just something that doesn’t have much to go deep into.
So the way I see it, if someone wants something not closed off, it’s not that hard to make an account and have it bookmarked. Beehaw is different, but I have the same usernames on my other ones (Wolf Shadowheart). I keep coming back to Beehaw.
Well said, and you touched on one of the things I like most about Behhaw, that people are actually willing to put effort into writing with sufficient depth to address complex topics authentically, and others are willing to read everything and respond in good faith, even when they disagree.
I browse Beehaw’s somewhat-curated-by-defederation /everything quite frequently, too, and I rarely ever have any snarky replies to my comments. It’s lovely. Granted, conversation threads are generally quite small, but I don’t need an endless firehose of content, so that’s not a problem.
I don’t have any other Lemmy accounts to compare, but I didn’t enjoy reading /everything from a Lemmy app that pulls from it’s own feed instead of your logged-in instance feed. On Reddit, I mostly enjoyed smaller niche subs, and very few of the popular ones.
I don’t feel like its too closed off, no, I appreciate how closed off it is!
I think it’s not closed off enough, given that I regularly see accounts from other instances post comments that go against the goals and spirit set by Beehaw.
At the same time, I think we don’t have enough of a new content stream. I don’t think opening up is a good solution though. That would mean losing what sets Beehaw apart.
Hey, I’m nice!
Then keep it up!
I’ll try, thank you 💕
No. I came here for a nice place and I’m uninterested in instances that Beehaw defederated from and in banned users.
I subscribed to basically every Beehaw community plus some communities from federated instances, and I browse by “'Subscribed”.
More activity would always be cool, but I don’t miss doomscrolling through reposts and trolls on other platforms either so.
I don’t mind so much, to be honest. Like @TheRtRevKaiser said, I’m an old dog in a labcoat on the internet and asynchronous discussions aren’t uncomfortable. I have an anonymous account elsewhere and I don’t generally check it anymore, because I’m plenty happy with the conversations that do federate here. Besides, being here has definitely been good for my generalized terminally-online anxiety.
Because of it being so closed off I’ve hopped instances
And honestly I’m probably going to hop again because having down votes disabled isn’t very good IMO
Edit: 1 big thing though that I wish existed Lemmy wide would be if you have a comment or post removed (hell even bans) you get a message to your inbox. As it currently stands it just happens and unless you check mod logs you’ll never know.
Could say the same about mastodon,
How is blahaj zone?
It’s pretty chill in general and is well moderated
It’s has the occasional instability day here and there but it gets sorted out pretty quick
They don’t federate down votes and you can’t give them out which IMO isn’t the best
But I’d say it’s a nice place overall
in all honesty, I don’t really want to have to spend all my time blocking and curating when I just want to contribute when I can. I usually don’t visit a ton of other lemmy instances, and the ones I do I don’t really comment in, either. maybe I’m overly anxious and skittish, but at the same time, I’m 1) very much already tired and don’t want to spend a ton of time curating a block list and 2) just trying to find a community to fit in where I’m comfortable.
I know I’m not the most active by far, but I don’t want this community to open up just so we can have more content. more content to me doesn’t always equal good content, I guess.
And you would be … 🤣
I do kid. I enjoy that we have the options to dive into the deep end elsewhere or just hang out in a space where bullshit is quickly quashed. I’m here for discussion and to be active in ensuring this is a place I never find myself regretting joining.
Is it what everyone wants? Of course not, but that was never the intent of Beehaw to my knowledge. I’m glad you’re happy here and hope you continue to feel that way. And, you know what? Fuck anyone who tells you not to be happy with what you have. This is not Beehaw- or Lemmy-specific, this is life. Never let anyone else bring you down for what you’re comfortable with.
