PascalSausage

I feel like the people complaining haven’t actually bothered reading about what Beehaw is for and the ethos of the administrators. It’s literally all right there in the sidebar, I read it before I made my account. This is completely in line with that. It’s such a nothing burger. You’re not being cEnSoReD because one instance out of thousands has drawn a line in the sand on what it will tolerate and what it won’t.

Except unlike Reddit, you’re free to use an instance which does federate with these servers. I fail to see what is unsettling about this.

There’s four admins here, and they all do this voluntarily. They will all have jobs and lives outside of this platform, and they’ve all been incredibly busy since this instance blew up. I don’t feel like it’s particularly fair to demand that they take on hours and hours of extra work dealing with spam and trolls from other servers when they’ve been quite upfront about what they’re trying to create here. If you want the content from those instances it’s really not much of an ask to make an account there.

Where you draw the line is ultimately up to you. Some people are using both Reddit and fediverse platforms, some are dropping Reddit entirely, some like yourself are lurking only. There’s not a community on the fediverse for everything yet, and the ones that are may not be as active as they are on Reddit or may not be federated into your home instance. The way I see it, if there’s some information that you need that happens to be on Reddit, you shouldn’t deprive yourself of it. The unfortunate reality is that Reddit has come to replace a lot of forums and discussion boards over the years and now has a monopoly (I’d personally call it a stranglehold) on community-sourced information. We can change that, but it’s going to take a while. Do what you need to do.

It’s a shame this has to happen, but I respect your decision. You’re completely correct that it’s impossible to actually build a safe space while anyone is allowed to walk in off the street.

Is there a list of federated servers anywhere that we can access?

Any madman daily driving TempleOS is too powerful to be left alive.

Meh - maybe Reddit will live on, maybe it’ll die. It’s immaterial and worrying about it is a waste of energy. What we need to concentrate on is keeping the forward momentum going and making Lemmy into a truly viable alternative. The rest will follow.

Me too, now I get to reflexively open Lemmy instead! Yay!

I believe now more than ever that any site that revolves around a community should be in the hands of said community and not corporations or else this eventually happens

This is how it used to be before the internet for most people basically became five websites run by enormous faceless data mines. Forums/bulletin boards/IRC channels used to be run by the community for the community and in my opinion the internet was better for it. Sure you’d get the odd flame war or power-tripping mod, but it was super common for a large portion of the community to just up sticks and start a new forum somewhere else if it became too much of a problem. Then Reddit killed most of the hobbyist forums stone dead. There’s nothing to go back to so we have to start fresh. But honestly, I’m here for it. I’m tired of being the product for a bunch of advertisers. Take me back to 2004.

I haven't been able to find a Sleep Token community either, I'm not sure one actually exists. I was thinking of making one.

You could try this page to find communities though, it indexes most of the large instances: https://browse.feddit.de/

I’ll take this over all the sex threads on AskReddit.

The tech giving me hope for the future isn’t the one currently consuming as much energy as a small country to store JPEGs on the blockchain for rich people to flex with.

I die buried under a mountain of coffee filters and single-handedly cause the deforestation of half of Europe.