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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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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Trying to get an account on here is pretty difficult though. I applied on the first day of the blackout to give lemmy a shot, but never even got an email back. Ive heard similar from other people.

That would make it pretty tough for new users trying to join the community if they dont know they can also make accounts elsewhere thats federated with beehaw.

[–] Sendbeer 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they are still working through some issues and a large backlog. I got emails from my applications. Two - one rejected when I did a low effort answer to the question and then an acceptance. Still some growing pains I think.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, manually accepting applications seems kinda ridiculous, but I dont know. Its their server.

[–] Swallowtail 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's certainly possible they'll have to reassess their strategy in the face of new applications rising so much, but I think up to this point they've just felt that community quality is more important than growth. I just recently joined this server and I didn't find the application to be that onerous. I just spent perhaps 15 minutes or so thinking about why I would want to be a part of a community like this and crafting a response that showed that I do care.

[–] pohart@lemmyrs.org 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's likely to be overly exclusionary. I think that regardless of what they were like it to accept before, the current volume will probably make them deny many people who would be assets to the instance. OTOH, it's their server, and I'm only interested because it's got high quality content and commentary. So maybe they know what they're doing.

[–] SkepticElliptic 1 points 1 year ago

Same with me. I already had an account from the main instance, but decided to switch when asked users not to make new accounts on there.