There are different opinions on Beehaw’s registration process. I kind of see how some people would find it dissuasive, specially after most of us are coming from Reddit. But I still think it’s very practical, at least for the time being.
Btw, this is only my opinion as a new user, I don’t know any of the admins/mods. Link to my original comment.
yeah I think a lot of people who haven’t actually done it are misconstruing it as something far more than it was. I wrote 3 sentences for each but a commenter on another instance thought I needed to write “3 essays”
The way I see it, it doesn’t take that much longer than writing a post or even a long comment. If a person isn’t willing to take the time to do that, I wonder how much they were going to contribute to the community in the first place? lol
reminds me of the people who got pissed when we defederated from a few instances. I guess they’re just angry that they don’t have access to something other people do, even if they won’t use it.
They’re so accustomed to centralised social media that allows them to troll and bait without caring for the people in those platforms, that, when, they find instances here, like Beehaw, that do not want to have contact with people and instances that promote that type of attitude, they feel confused and betrayed.
They expected the fediverse, Lemmy, Beehaw to be a replacement for Reddit, not only as content/link/information aggregation platform, but as a place to continue acting like they acted on Reddit with no consideration or understanding that they aren’t in Reddit anymore.
The fact that many are calling Beehaw admin/mod team “snobby” “snowflakes”, etc just says it all
I even saw one that called them “oversensitive ninnies” and it was weird how they didn’t make the connection as to why they defederated
Honestly. Zero self-awareness.
I saw this image and I was like… “Actually? Maybe that wouldn’t be so bad”
What’s really funny about this image is that the implication is that Beehaw mods are trying to keep us from seeing content from other instances, when they’ve said in multiple ways that 1) if you don’t agree with the decision, you can go elsewhere, and 2) it’s about keeping trolls from spamming up Beehaw, not preventing Beehaw members from venturing outside of the instance. I don’t even know why people think Beehaw’s admin/mod team cares at all about where it’s users go beyond making sure they’re not trolls trying to infiltrate. They’re providing a free service where they’re trying to build a community, not create an Orwellian dystopia where all thought is policed. If anything, mods here have been way more tolerant of dissenting voices than I’ve seen elsewhere as long as those voices are civil and not actively promoting bigotry/harm.
That wouldn’t be a bad idea for the time being. But images like this show that these people really don’t understand how the fediverse work. They would die of shock if they ever saw how long (way longer than Beehaws) the list of defederated servers is in the mastodon instance I’m in
I hope they really don’t think we can’t just type the address of other instances on our browsers and see the content… if we choose to, that is.
I mean, one of my first posts here was arguing with a user who said that “using the word ‘minorities’ is offensive since it doesn’t include everybody” and kept arguing points like that.
Then they huffed and lamented that “clearly [they were] not welcome here.”
I half-expected a “so much for the tolerant left!” before they self-exiled.
Poor little guy! This place is obviously far too rough of a neighborhood for them to be comfortable!
That has to be one of the stupidest things I’ve read in a while
You know what? I was mistaken here. They were offended that someone brought up the governor of Florida and equated it to comparing them to governor of Florida.
But my point still stands, as this was some of their comments/replies.
Pretty much that. They’re not even hard questions to answer, you could even lie. But, the day or two wait period and general approval process means you weed out a lot of the undesirables who are looking for a quick way to upset and bully people. It’s a good thing.
I answered honestly, and I think it was probably about five sentences. I’m definitely not a robot or a bully, and they still denied me. maybe it’s because I brought up developing a sports community.
no there’s a sports community here, it might be that users aren’t allowed to create new communities though
Will just mention that the waiting time is not intentional. We just didn’t have a deny system and that’s been messing with the queue. I sincerely hope we could pass everyone within 6 hours.
Even so, any sort of wait tends to weed out the folks who want to troll, so it’s good!
I don’t know why people can’t be bothered to click the “register” button to see for themselves. I’ve spent more time writing each individual post I’ve made on Beehaw than I did the questions for registration. Granted, I also read all of the literature discussing the philosophy and goals of Beehaw beforehand and had the answers in my mind by the time I saw the questions, but it was really just a line or two per prompt. Basically the bare minimum of user vetting. Imagine my surprise when I see people talk about it like we were asked for an in-depth literary analysis of the themes behind “Great Expectations” and how they can be translated to the modern world.