Oh, this is good. Thank you! I've been having a blast with this one. Found this neopets-like.
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joined 2 years ago
Cowbees is low-key my favorite, too. ;)
I absolutely ham up Beehaw every time I say it. I also make really clumsy cowbee jokes. S'good.
Any Beehawians (Beehawans? Cowbees?) looking for a Twitter replacement might consider Counter.Social - it has a similar vibe to Beehaw and Tildes. It is not federated but is using a lot of Mastodon code from what I understand. The community sets it apart - and the owner's insistence on no ads, no algo, security, privacy, etc.
It's been around a few years and the infrastructure was upgraded with the last bit Twitter exodus, so CoSo remains stable where Bluesky and some others have been screwy. You can find me there with the same username - say hi if you pop in! It's a super friendly community :)
Oh no. Please no.
Road 96 was great, seconding that recommendation!
Enjoy the backlog if you get a chance! He's got some good stuff.
This dude is so good. <3
Glad to hear it!
Ahhh, congrats on all counts!!
This is really handy! Thank you!
There was some drama between the owner and the Mastodon folks over the policy of blocking certain countries. CoSo has flourished in the years since that's occurred, though. It stays small, but the culture and community are amazing. I don't consider CoSo part of the fediverse, it's more of a well-tended walled garden built on the same stuff.
(I'm personally also not all that invested in the fediverse as a concept, either - I'm here because Reddit chased me off, but like... if Beehaw defederated from all the other Lemmy instances, as long as it was for a sensible reason and I liked the culture, I'd stick around. I never got into the broader Mastodon fediverse and haven't felt its lack at all.)