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welcome, influx of new users, to Beehaw!

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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  • 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!

    • I love that people are realizing we don't actually have to monetize socializing.

      • It's so much better. No advertising in your face. No algorithms to control what you see. Just plain ol' post ranking via up and down votes.

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