This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join.
However Lemmy is federated software, meaning you can interact seamlessly with communities on other instances like beehaw.org or lemmy.one. The documentation explains in more detail how this works. Use the instance list to find one where you can register. Then use the Community Browser to find interesting communities. Paste the community url into the search field to follow it.
You can help other Reddit refugees by inviting them to the same Lemmy instance where you joined. This way we can spread the load across many different servers. And users with similar interests will end up together on the same instances. Others on the same instance can also automatically see posts from all the communities that you follow.
Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml in your announcements. That way the server will only go down sooner.
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I havent been on beehaw, but if you vomit from friendly and good, it says something about your own personality.
One of the most popular Mastadon instances are also lgbt. To me, its a sign that those people have a strong desire to meet others like them, and discuss their situation. Seems perfectly healthy to me.
I dont have to be there if I dont want to engage with them, just like I dont have to go to a football game if I dont like football.
I mean, cant we just all pick our tribe and let others have their tribe?
We do not have to fight eachother online.
Please read that again. The entire traditional social media is built on “engagement”, which usually means to throw things that upset people into their feed so they post and react. We must try and be better than that. Its really silly. Its all just people behind all these posts, and you probably have a lot more in common with them than the billionaires owning the social media networks, and who you are literally sponsoring by using their platforms.
So the problem with beehaw is… It’s nice and has queer people on it? And banned one other instance.
The issue with lemmygrad as I understand it is that they have a lot of “tankies”, aka specifically the type of “communists” who support nominally communist dictatorships, such as supporting China against Hong Kong, Russia against Ukraine, etc, and denying historical war crimes commited by Stalin and Mao and so on. This isn’t popular with other communists and socialists because it’s less communism and more blindly eating dictatorship PR.
However admittedly I am on beehaw and would have to go out of my way to actually look at lemmygrad much myself, which I have not done.
Sounds like you’re just butthurt that LGBT people have a safe place online where they can just exist and not be met with hatred, buddy.
Ya, that read more like hate towards LGBT than anything else…
That’s a problem because he/she is literally not saying or expressing this.
They said beehaw is a problem, then followed that up with 3 statements: they’re too nice, half of them are lgbt, and they banned lemmygrad / are too ban-happy.
Am I supposed to assume the first and last thing mentioned are reasons beehaw is bad but the middle thing isn’t?
People like to be indirect with lgtbq+ hate a lot of the time, too, unless they feel comfortably surrounded by people who agree. So, misunderstands are certainly possible, but often in my experience it’s just plausible deniability as a shield against criticism.
I would say people think that there are only saints in LGBTQ* community, there could not have assholes or some having bad soft skills. It’s known there are no introverts in the community, noooo. For the other, I could name two asshole LGBT* person: Sarah Sharp (FOSS) and Ellen DeGeneres (People).
In my experience, I have seen more unjustified cancelling than real one and you are, here, doing the same. In no way /u/X77 was saying what you accuse him of.
No longer than yesterday, a person from Beehaw posted an illustration of a rainbow road roller truck driving over people tagged family, catholic, etc… not much of an issue, for you? Or maybe it is but this would have been a ban to MARS not just a “oh, this is not totally right or it is no meant to be blah-blah-blah…”.
Well, when you cut off on the nuance, keep a black and white mindset, it’s problematic. Remember the : “You are with us or against us”
Those with hatred in their hearts often express it in vague, coded terms.
LemmyGrad absolutely bans you if you disagree with them. I am an example of that.
Para 3 and 4 are pretty much a summation many instances in the Fediverse…lol. Not just those using Lemmy.