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

  • ToxicDivinity [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    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?

    • iie [they/them, he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      1 year ago

      Oh I’ve never actually signed up for Beehaw I just looked at the signup process