that’s kinda the great thing about lemmy though is it not? When you start an instance, you can decide how you want it to be run. Beehaw has had a small, but lovely community for a while now, and they want to keep it that way. It’s great they can choose to defederate from specific instances they deem problematic. You too have the power to spin up an instance with very little effort if you want total control and you can federate with whoever you want.

I’m not sure how you see this as a red flag, but it kinda seems to me like a safe, small community like Beehaw isn’t really for you if that’s the case

I don’t think it should be the goal to replace reddit with lemmy. Reddit was problematic, it’s userbase was generally pretty toxic, and had many issues with it’s structure.

Lemmy is a chance to do things differently

I can totally respect that this was a lovely, safe and small community before the reddit influx, and you want to keep it that way. I’m a new reddit refugee and I signed up here because i love the ethos, but ultimately I’ve made an alt over at lemmy.world so i can view all the content they produce on my main feed.

Not sure where my home will be, or what i’m looking to get out of lemmy, but weather I end up back here or not, I appreciate all beehaw has done to introduce me to lemmy and the lovely interactions i’ve had here already

I’m curious what difficulties you encountered, I signed up at beehaw where i had to write a response to why i wanted to join, but even then my account was manually reviewed by a human and when i checked an hour later, I was signed up.

Other communities don’t have such rules. I managed to create an alt account on another server and i was signed up immediately, equally as fast as reddit.

Spotify for finding new music and most of my listening.

I’ll buy vinyl for my favorite albums or if I see something at the record store that takes my fancy.

I’ll usually listen to my records while cooking or if I want to just sit and listen as a primary activity

Mezzanine is a masterpiece. Easily one of the best albums ever produced.

Holy shit, the possibility of new aphex twin is exciting

this last weekend I was awake for about 40 hours to watch the 24 hours of leMans. The race didn’t start until midnight my time which is why it was so much longer than just being awake for 24 hours.

A free burrito can make a man do crazy things.

overall Lemmy is pretty good. Better than I expected tbh.

The communities are smaller, which feels more old-school, and it feels friendlier and more accepting. On reddit if you bought up nu-metal in the metal subreddit you’d be downvoted and harassed, here I saw someone bring up nu-metal in a metal community and people were super accepting of it. However, because of the smaller population, the more niche interests don’t have a community, or if they do, there’s basically no content.

The federation thing takes a second to ‘get’ and with it, comes problems of discoverability, but we have browse.feddit.de to help with that. The upside to the fediverse is the fact the users are in control of the platform instead of a for-profit organization make me very happy, I no longer scroll with shame, I scroll with pride.

There are pros and cons to Lemmy but the biggest cons are related to the relatively low number of users which will grow with time (I hope). Overall I’m enjoying it so far and I really hope more reddit communities make the switch

I went back to Minecraft a couple weeks ago and just beat the ender dragon. It’s a great time even if you’ve done it a dozen times before. I do this about once a year, It’s fun to try and play it differently. Usually I try to go with huge farms of all different kinds (crops, meat, xp, iron, etc.), this time I went with micro farms, just enough to keep me alive.

Exactly. Shutting down for 2 days just says we’ll be back in 2 days. Shutting down and saying we’re going to Lemmy with a link to a specific community shows reddit we are serious about this.