How does that square with beehaw gaining significant numbers of users as part of reddit's recent migration? They wouldn't be looking for somewhere to join if they felt like reddit would continue to work for them, and I'd say that automatically makes replacing reddit their primary goal.
ppptan
joined 2 years ago
It's not about getting told what to do or having your data sold, it's about a friction-free social media experience. It depends on what the aims of the platform are and what the desires of potential users are. Personally, I'd imagine most users want something simple and easy, where they don't have to think about what and where and how to post. But if the intent of the platform is to make that harder, then that's fine, it'll just result in fewer users and less content/activity.
@LambentMote
I thought I engaged pretty well with the questions, but I answered them from a simple, matter-of-fact perspective, basically just saying that it's a big instance and I'd like to be a part of it, then answering #3 with the communities I'd like to participate in. Do I have to specifically affirm the philosophical underpinnings of how beehaw operates? I'm fine with that and I do agree with them with how I would participate on beehaw, it just didn't seem necessary when applying.
@Ashiette For beehaw registration. I'm accessing it from kbin, but especially in light of defederating from two of the biggest open-registration lemmy instances, I'd like to be on beehaw directly.
I thought I engaged pretty well with the questions, but I answered them from a simple, matter-of-fact perspective, basically just saying that it's a big instance and I'd like to be a part of it, then answering #3 with the communities I'd like to participate in. Do I have to specifically affirm the philosophical underpinnings of how beehaw operates? I'm fine with that and I do agree with them with how I would participate on beehaw, it just didn't seem necessary when applying.
For beehaw registration. I'm accessing it from kbin, but especially in light of defederating from two of the biggest open-registration lemmy instances, I'd like to be on beehaw directly.
I'm not really sure how you can distinguish between one open-registration instance and another, since spammers and trolls can just sign up to any open-registration site and interact with beehaw like I'm doing now.
@Otome-chan@kbin.social
Okay, so just do whatever and it'll work itself out. Go to "threads" if I'm in the mood to see reddit-type stuff and go to "microblog" if I'm in the mood to see twitter-type stuff.
Thanks for the good explanation.
@Otome-chan@kbin.social So is there some way to see mastodon content without subscribing to individual people first?
@dannekrose How did it tag it? I just went to https://kbin.social/m/technology@beehaw.org/microblog and typed "test"
Lemmy is harder to start than reddit because the federated nature of it makes it not just one place. Just because you want to escape the man doesn't mean you want to have to jump through hoops and read a textbook of documentation to understand things.