7 awesome Reddit alternatives you should try right now
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Filling a Reddit-sized hole

From the article:

"Beehaw is relatively new and relatively small at the moment, but it’s one of the closest approximations of what Reddit is that you’re going to find, and well worth investigating as a Reddit replacement. The interface even looks a lot like Reddit, albeit without a lot of the on-screen features and furniture that build up over almost two decades of operation.

Have a read of the Beehaw mission statement and you’ll see the platform is committed to avoiding the “hate speech” and “disinformation” that’s prevalent elsewhere. The communities available right now cover everything from neurodivergence and people of color to literature and gardening, so you’re sure to find something of interest here."

    • Faceman🇦🇺@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      probably just a bit of safety there, it is a more carefully controlled and moderated experience.

      You drop the average internet user into the wrong random lemmy instance without teaching them how to tune it to their liking and they are going to be turned off by the amount of bizzare shit they see and just assume it’s all like that.

    • BlackCoffee@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I think Beehaw is a great instance who shows what the Fediverse can be and is about.

      I love that they actually shout out 1 of the instances instead of Lemmy or Kbin as a whole.

      • Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

        Trying to get an account on here is pretty difficult though. I applied on the first day of the blackout to give lemmy a shot, but never even got an email back. Ive heard similar from other people.

        That would make it pretty tough for new users trying to join the community if they dont know they can also make accounts elsewhere thats federated with beehaw.

        • Sendbeer@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          I think they are still working through some issues and a large backlog. I got emails from my applications. Two - one rejected when I did a low effort answer to the question and then an acceptance. Still some growing pains I think.

          • Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
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            1 year ago

            Yeah, manually accepting applications seems kinda ridiculous, but I dont know. Its their server.

            • Swallowtail@beehaw.org
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              1 year ago

              It’s certainly possible they’ll have to reassess their strategy in the face of new applications rising so much, but I think up to this point they’ve just felt that community quality is more important than growth. I just recently joined this server and I didn’t find the application to be that onerous. I just spent perhaps 15 minutes or so thinking about why I would want to be a part of a community like this and crafting a response that showed that I do care.

        • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgMEnglish
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          1 year ago

          to put it mildly, the email situation behind the scenes is a fiasco right now that we’re trying to resolve asap. if you registered a few days ago you’re almost certainly in queue and if we had our way you might have a judgement by now, but our email providers kind of threw us a curveball yesterday that means we literally can’t send out the emails that’d notify you if we approved or denied you. it’s very dumb. we’re very tired of it, lol