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Techradar Just Shouted Out Beehaw! (www.techradar.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dirtmayor to c/news

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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."

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[–] lovesickoyster@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

but can you actually register to beehaw? Because I tried days ago, and I still can't log in.

[–] alyaza 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

to put it mildly, the email situation behind the scenes is a fiasco right now that we're trying to resolve asap. if you registered a few days ago you're almost certainly in queue and if we had our way you might have a judgement by now, but our email providers kind of threw us a curveball yesterday that means we literally can't send out the emails that'd notify you if we approved or denied you. it's very dumb. we're very tired of it, lol

[–] Liempong_pagong@apollo.town 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read somewhere that there have been many cases of bots trying to register, is this true?

[–] alyaza 3 points 1 year ago

almost certainly, if not here than elsewhere on Lemmy

[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I registered and got through yes.

I registered just before the influx of users from reddit I assume and I am gonna be honest I didn't put in a full essae.

[–] realChem 23 points 1 year ago

Nobody needs to write an essay; I wrote two (maybe three?) sentences in mine. You just need to actually be interested in beehaw for what makes it different from other instances and express that. My application wasn't really any longer than this paragraph

Registration happens to be behind right now, mainly for technical reasons as alyaza mentioned, but the admin team is working diligently on it (♥)

[–] randomperson@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You haven't written an essay good enough.

[–] 1993_toyota_camry 13 points 1 year ago

I wrote two phrases. Nobody needs to write an essay, they're just backlogged.

Also don't write anything offensive. I've heard they've gotten some pretty crazy submissions. If you drop any slurs in your application you probably won't make the cut.

[–] lovesickoyster@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

ah, shit - should've used chatgpt.