Techradar Just Shouted Out Beehaw! (cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/628792)
Techradar Just Shouted Out Beehaw! (cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/628792)
Filling a Reddit-sized hole
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/628792
From the article:
"Beehaw is relatively new and relatively small at the moment, but it's one of the closest approximations of what Reddit is that you're going to find, and well worth investigating as a Reddit replacement. The interface even looks a lot like Reddit, albeit without a lot of the on-screen features and furniture that build up over almost two decades of operation.
Have a read of the Beehaw mission statement and you'll see the platform is committed to avoiding the "hate speech" and "disinformation" that's prevalent elsewhere. The communities available right now cover everything from neurodivergence and people of color to literature and gardening, so you're sure to find something of interest here."
Feels like this Beehaw section of the article is missing the mark in it's failure to recognize Lemmy or the Fediverse as a whole.
It's actually pretty amazing how little understanding tech writers seem to know about tech. They're just PR mouthpieces for gadget companies.
Yes, this is far from positive. Especially since Beehive has excluded everyone from its garden; It's not federated anymore.
It's annoying that they chose to shout out the instance that is not completely open to new users and has de-federated from other popular instances
Why did Beehaw defederate?
This is good news, I'm just sad they defederated with so many instances.
They do want to refederate when we get some better moderation tools. It would be cool if we had a list of the tools they need the most in order to refederate as I’m sure some in the community would be more motivated to make those tools if they new the priorities.
Here you go.: https://discuss.online/post/12787
It's quite extensive as Lemmy's mod tools are reeaally basic compared to Reddit's.
It certainly comes at an unfortunate time, but I can't fault them for wanting to build a community around their own ideology. They were left with few other options since the existing moderation tools won't yet facilitate the enforcement of such rules. It will come eventually.
I mean, when some of those sites they defederated from are going around proudly announcing they'd rather ban people asking that they defederate from the Nazi instance than the Nazi instance itself, it really drives home how much it was the right decision. We absolutely, under no circumstances, should let this space become just another Nazi bar.
I just checked, and Beehaw has defederated with 388 instances. Either the fediverse is overrun with nazis, or you're making a massive generalization and Beehaw is being ridiculous.
The instances that have been defederated deserved it.
"Moderate your users or get shut off" is not a new concept. Email server admins do it all the time when they blacklist other email servers for enabling spam and scams.
It's on those instances to start acting like good community members again, at which point other instances will open back up to them.
Part of the problem is that we just don't have good moderating tools yet. Getting shut off due to lack of moderation is probably a good incentive to help develop such tools and start using them.
If not, then that reinforces defederation as having been justified.
How asinine. It's guilt by association. Everyone who made an account on those instances is punished because some people were misbehaving. To say that those causing no problems other than existing on those instances "deserved" it is ridiculous. Even admins on that instance admit that:
To be clear there are problematic users on nearly every instance.
So at some point it's just an arbitrary decision as to whether or not to punish an entire instance.
Seems like they don’t quite understand that beehaw is a lemmy instance. They missed the mark.
LOL. They list Digg as a Reddit alternative.
Someone had a giggle when they wrote that.
Coming full circle at last.
Remember Digg? He's back - in Pog form!
I thought beehaw was trying to avoid a big influx of new users right now.