If you care about this and have the time, just start grabbing links from hexbear or reddit or your bookmarks and post them to appropriate non-beehaw communities.
Beehaw is a large, active, “no tankies allowed” lemmy instance that has suspiciously defederated from much of the rest of the fediverse, including its largest competitors lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.
This potentially threatens the lemmyverse as a system. If Beehaw gains a critical mass of the active lemmy userbase, and continues to defederate from its competitors, it could cause a vicious cycle where everyone goes to Beehaw because “that’s where everyone is.” Alternatively, Beehaw could use the threat of defederation to backseat-moderate other instances and enforce Beehaw politics outside of Beehaw. Either way, federation is defeated if Beehaw gets big enough.
*Lemmy.world is like twice as active as beehaw rn, I think beehaw fucked themselves over with their vetting process
i know you’re joking but iirc they just have the same little questionnaire as lemmy.ml and it’s just like “why do you want to join, what communities are you interested in, and why did you pick your name” which I answered with one sentence bullet points
I did that too and got rejected for not explaining how I align with the beehaw philosophy or whatever. All I said was basically I like Reddit and want to find a friendly Reddit replacement and I couldnt get an account. Did you sign up with an email address?
Oh I’ve never actually signed up for Beehaw I just looked at the signup process