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Beehaw Support

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Support and meta community for Beehaw. Ask your questions about the community, technical issues, and other such things here.

A brief FAQ for lurkers and new users can be found here.

Our September 2024 financial update is here.

For a refresher on our philosophy, see also What is Beehaw?, The spirit of the rules, and Beehaw is a Community


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.


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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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[–] GandalfDG@beehaw.org 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Glad to have another excuse to drop a walled-garden platform. After a few months my mastodon feed has become more engaging than my twitter ever was, and I'm looking forward to joining some communities of excellent people here!

[–] catacomb@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This place is way more alive than when I signed up, I'm getting excited!

I've hated walled gardens for a long time and I'm glad to see a lot of users are heading for federated alternatives. It strips away all of the weird tracking and algorithms and just lets us interact normally.

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[–] wintrparkgrl@beehaw.org 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Been with Reddit since the early days, just after the migration from Digg. This is my first federated service and I love the idea. I don't use social media outside of Reddit so while I heard of Mastadon, I didn't really know what it was. Big companies like to run stuff into the ground.

[–] rothaine@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm really liking the idea of Lemmy.

Mastodon, like Twitter, I just don't really "get". Why follow people? I want to follow topics, ideas. Centering conversations on who started them, rather than what they are about, seems strange.

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[–] cerebrix@beehaw.org 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm glad there's a free, open source, federated version of the thing I've been using for years. 4 years on digg I believe, and 13 on reddit. The more I think about the history of discussion forums like this. It probably should have been federated in the first place rather than trying to be a centralized thing.

anyway, glad to be here.

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[–] rsl12@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

I'm a reddit refugee too. It's so interesting to see that almost all the comments are 1) from actual people, and 2) conversing in way actual humans might if they weren't on the internet.

[–] shufflerofrocks@beehaw.org 18 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the quick approval, I'm here after the reddit news.

Besides, I think I needed to get off reddit anyway, the discussions there are getting stale and repetitive for years now

Here's to a good community

[–] Trout@beehaw.org 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for the approval! Fark>Digg>Reddit>Lemmy?

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[–] lorgo_numputz@beehaw.org 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello, all - YARR (Yet Another Reddit Refugee).

The coming shutdown of all 3rd party Reddit apps finally pushed me into action. I've been enjoying Mastodon and excited to checkout Lemmy

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[–] JCPhoenix@beehaw.org 17 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Hi all. Another refugee from reddit that just joined today. Thanks for letting me in!

I haven't given up entirely on reddit, but I'm getting pretty darn close. Been a redditor for nearly 13yrs now. I've also been on Tildes for 4yrs now. I've tried various reddit-likes over the years including Imzy and Voat (before it turned into a raging cesspool).

Anyway, let's see how this fediverse stuff goes. Not sure I entirely understand how federated services work, but excited to find out.

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 16 points 2 years ago

I also just approved some users on feddit.de :)

[–] DJDarren@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Ahoy! I originally joined here a few weeks ago, when Reddit first started rumbling about charging for API access, but didn't really post anything until today.

So hello all!

Quick question: At the top of this thread it says that there are 55 comments, but I can see maybe 1/3 of those. Where have the rest gone? I commented on another post that had 4 comments, but I couldn't see any of them...

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[–] uthredii@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Message to the new users:

Communities like this struggle to get started without corporate backing and marketing money. Once we hit a critical mass the quality of the content and number of users will keep increasing.

Please help by:

  • spreading the word about beehaw.org and LemmyNet in general.
  • try to contribute by commenting/posting.

Relevant links:

Reddit mods announce the api update

Link to the apolloapp thread

Link to r/programming thread

Link to r/technology thread

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[–] bonn2@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] offthecrossbar@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Another redditor checking in here👋, been using Mastodon for a while now, I hope reddit's silly decision comes to benefit the fediverse!

[–] RomanceDailies@beehaw.org 15 points 2 years ago

Glad to be here. The lack of downvotes and also the focus on trying to navigate the fine-line of dialogue while not advocating for hate made me interested in joining this site.

[–] Logic_Zero@beehaw.org 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hello everyone, another Reddit Refugee saying hello!

A bit of history, I was on Digg, and after they ruined that I joined Reddit (how many years ago was that already??). Lurking around ever since.

I really do appreciate the civil and social attitude here-- let's build a great, open and accepting community!

[–] Kory@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Wow, I have completely forgotten about Digg. Reddit should remember that story though, wouldn't be the first time that users are leaving in troves after bad management decisions.

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[–] Seda@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago

Woohoo! Reddit is killing my favorite app so It's time for a new home. Hi everyone!

[–] Wolfram@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] Countmacula@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago

Really excited to be apart of lemmy and the fediverse. I think it’ll grow quite big.

[–] Reddit_Refugee2023@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

all three of us admins are on now because this timed itself well, so at this point and for the time being we have admissions down to being approved by the minute, lol

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[–] Jdreben@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago

Obligatory hello I'm here from dying Reddit 👋

[–] Senuf@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey, older members here: any good advice for us to do so? Thanks!

Honestly just participate and be nice. So far we haven't run into any real drama and have had exceedingly little moderator interaction. Please read the posts in the sidebar if you find yourself with time to really understand our ethos so you can help ensure this place stays nice and moderator actions are at a minimum 💜.

Most of the complaints and suggestions have been around activity, so if you feel inclined to comment for any reason, even just to say "thanks for a wonderful article", I think many people appreciate the validation and support.

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[–] amortized_cost@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago

Wow, I really didn't expect approval to be this fast(about 5-10 min only)! Thank you for your contribution to this fediverse community!

[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well this is wild. I've been on here only for a few months now, but I've never seen a post with 3 digit score and 3 digit number comments. Hi all!

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[–] karce@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hi Hi. Thanks for approving me so fast mod team! Like many others I'm a reddit refuge. I can't stand what the modern internet is becoming with the likes of these massive social media companies and their monetization practices. So my hope is to find a bunch of cool and friendly people on here who can chit chat freely. Thanks agan!

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[–] JackFromWisconsin@midwest.social 12 points 2 years ago

This is a little old, but here's a list of many communities to subscribe to: https://beehaw.org/post/244412

Feel free to use this as a launch pad to discover the lemmy-verse!

[–] pumaman@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago

Hi all! Quit Twitter a few months back and joined Mastodon, loving the smaller more focused community. Also love not feeling exploited for profit by a megacorp. So hoping to dump Reddit the same and hoping to find similar easy going community here! See you all around!

[–] autisticaudionerd@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago

I'm glad to be somewhere where big corporations don't control what I see. Thanks for approving my request quickly too, btw.

[–] Danielrh66@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hi!

Edit: Took a bit for me to post, but finally figured out my problem. So thanks the approval. Learned of this via Reddit and I really like the concept of the fediverse sowas real happy to see this. I am a degrees Chemist, mostly do quality system work now for chemical distribution. Enjoy cooking, fishkeeping and working in my yard. Happy to talk about any subject!

[–] Blacklight@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the quick approval. I'm excited to see where this community goes!

[–] dan1101@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For what it's worth I was going to join Beehaw but I like downvotes. I'm still sore that YouTube removed them. So I'd like to vote for downvotes lol.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

Sorry, this is not something we're willing to budge on. You're still, of course, welcome to participate on our instance so long as you're nice 😊

[–] strudel6242@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago

Howdy! Always been curious about this whole fediverse thing, and with reddit's API change I figured I may as well take the plunge. Good to be here!

[–] szeraax@lemmy.dcrich.net 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Being able to comment on this chain from my own instance of lemmy is really cool. Beehaw looks to have many good communities, will definitely be hanging out here, even as a non-user on the site.

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[–] CARV@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Thanks for the approval! I’m already enjoying beehaw. Does anybody know if there’s a iOS app that can facilitate my pleasure for beehaw/Lemmy?

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[–] mistersheep@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Thanks for the rapid approval! I was expecting to have to wait a few hours at least, but I think the wait was less than a minute!

I've been on mastodon for a while, and heard about Lemmy but never really looked into it before now. I know all the fediverse can interact somehow, but I don't know the details. Can mastodon accounts see Lemmy posts (or vice versa)?

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[–] Chris_P_Chickn@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm here now. But where is here? 🤔🤷‍♂️

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[–] kalanggam@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 23 points 2 years ago

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

[^1]: 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!

[–] okiegirl22@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago (10 children)

New here and I have no idea what is going on, but I’m curious about this whole thing. Mostly looking to chat about books and reading!

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