Beehaw Support

I really like the policy of no downvotes. Honestly, even on Reddit I think downvoting had long ceased to serve any useful purpose, and turned into a harmful tool. Anything that truly is bad content can just be reported instead.

Just wanted to take the opportunity to say that I actually kind of appreciate the sign-up process needing approval? I'm aware there's no quick and easy way to prevent bots and bad actors from tarnishing otherwise comfy spaces, but even just having to apply kinda makes Beehaw feel a bit safer? c:

Absolutely didn't mind the sign up process considering the idealogy of Beehaw at it's core. It's necessary to filter out, at the very least, the people who can't even behave for one simple "Why I want to join" message.

I do wonder what the plan is for growth, though? I can't imagine it'll be feasible to screen every sign up in a future where Beehaw continues to grow so quickly.

Thanks for all you're doing folks!

Thanks for approving me! I was looking for an art community on Lemmy as a replacement of Reddit and as far as I know, Beehaw has the biggest art community on Lemmy!

thank you to admins, this has been a a great experience, really has helped with finding a new place after reddit. The community here has been incredibly welcoming. I appreciate all the transparency and dedication.

The vibe around here is great, thanks for the approval! Very happy to be here 🎉

I always had mixed feelings about downvoting. On YouTube, dislikes were very useful, on Reddit I feel downvotes are just used to bring down dissenting opinions, regardless of their merit, so in a community like this it makes sense to disable them.

Hi bees! Great to be here with you guys.

Hi everyone. This is an interesting place. I like that good behaving is part of the community philosophy. I can also understand why the creating a community is not allowed. Overall I have the feeling this is a place of quality.

However, disabling the down vote button leaves me with an uncomfortable taste in the mouth. I understand why this is done. This is my first post here, so I will see myself how its going to work out and decide at later time if this is a good idea or not. At least down voting unpopular opinions is such a bad thing in other communities, which would be solved here. And it still is self regulating, where top or hot comments have the most likes and comments. While writing my own comment here, I start to like disabling the dislike button.

Oh and thank god there is a Preview mode (like Github). I just wish there would be a realtime preview mode on the side.

Thank you very much for your efforts. I am happy to be here and am very excited to see how this platform will develop!

Guys, I love the intent here!

What’s the best way to help?

Very happy to be here (thanks for the approval)... l have been looking around and reading through and it looks very awesome and curated content. Very happy to be part of this community :)

I love you guys so much 🥲🩷

Happy to be here and enjoying the positive vibe

Hi guys, new here, how does this: "communities cannot be made by users on here. we do take feedback on what gets made and when to make communities" work in practice? is there a space to request a thing be created? Like for example i like to talk about wrassling shows but there's only a sports community.

Where can I see a list of all communities in here? I'm on the Jerboa app.

Happy to be here and I think I am going to stay.

Happy to finally be(e) here! It was worth the wait for approval. 😊 I've been watching how the Beehaw team and community has been responding and taking action during this tumultuous period and I'm absolutely impressed. Looking forward to being an active member of this community.

Hello all! Signed up for a few different sites yesterday, before the crush of today, to see which ones got some staying power. Kbin's incredibly slow right now, Reddit's not just blacked out but down, and Beehaw's over here in the corner rock solid. Think I've found my new spot!

Hi everyone, and a thank you to the admins for approving me! Really love the feel of this place so far, there are some interesting discussions taking place. I'm almost a middle-aged geezer, and the Lemmies feel more like late 1990s/early 2000s mailing lists or forums than anything else -- I really miss those. I hope that I can contribute to the positive atmosphere and discussion quality!

"You don't need to write a whole essay" Yea, sorry for that. I got carried away.

OK - just checking in - picked up on Beehaw from Lemmy a couple of days ago and what a breath of fresh air!

To that end I've just wiped and deleted my two accounts at the R place after ten and a bit years. It turned into a pile of toxic garbage - bots and trolls in all of the subs I was in.

Hopefully this will different.

Thanks for approving my account, I like the feel of the place and look forward to becoming more active as I get more familiar with things. One question... While I was waiting for my account to be approved I opened an account on the startrek.website lemmy instance with the same user name. Is this going to cause any problems?

I just finished reading the piece on beehaw as a community and how you try to manage disagreements or things that are inappropriately said shortly after being approved today.

It really moved me and made me feel a sense of community already. I really hope the moderation strategy works out with the growth of the instance, because it seems like moderating at that level would get exhausting very quickly. Anyways, I'm glad to be here and excited to see what the future will bring :)

Hi everyone and thanks Beehaw for the easy registration. I've been on Reddit for a very long time and while I'm not very seriously attached to it in any meaningful way, it does make me extremely sad to see the direction it's going now. I found so many niche communities that I could spend my time in that were such a fun part of my day. I don't have many IRL friends and don't really have any online friends, but interacting with the strangers in the subs I carefully curated over the years was so enjoyable. I hope I can find something similar here.

Excited to be here and to contribute to the collective good!

Happy to be(e) here!

Thank you, I'm looking forward to participating here

I joined back in April (then forgot about it...) so should I consider myself an early adoptor? Anyways, I'll spend some time familiarising myself again.

Excited to be part of the community here! ((: Really appreciate how deliberate and intentional beehaw is about how it does things and I'm enjoying exploring Lemmy a lot more than my dabbling with Mastodon in the past (which gave me some reference for the fediverse but never really stuck with me since twitter style microblogging was just never my style).

Hi. Can you add "How do I create a community on Beehaw?" to the FAQ? I've been trying to figure it out for a couple of days, and haven't found anything about it.

Is there a way to message the mods/admin without messaging them directly (individually)? Can't seem to find the option.

Only curious because for some reason, my account got labeled "bot account" next to my comments and I have no idea why. Maybe because I posted from Jerboa or something? It's weird.

Not a bot, beteedubs. (Yes, yes, that's what a bot would say, I know.)

Stealth edit: Yeah, even this comment. Am I like not fully approved or something?

Really fast registration approval, it's nice to see an admin who cares for their community. Still kinda lost with Lemmy but so far so good and I look forward to interacting with everyone.

Thanks for approving me! Looking forward to investigating more.

Jerboa shows a lot of promise as an app. Curious to see if any of the major 3PA developers take a swing at the Fedi the way the Twitter ones did.

Thanks for approving me!

I'm a bit confused on lemmy instances. I thought I saw that you can join an instance with an account you've made on another one? For example, some people will have "theirname@beehaw.org" on other instances. How does that work exactly? You can't just sign in?