I love Beehaw, but the number of loud tankies in the general fediverse is too much for me. I’ll be happy when Beehaw manages to get away from Lemmy (if that’s still in the plans).

Other than Beehaw, the two places I enjoy that are populated by actual, non-propaganda-focused people are:

• tildes.net (really fabulous–like a small version of the way reddit was years ago)
• pianotell.com (for piano-related talk)

I’m a reddit refugee too. It’s so interesting to see that almost all the comments are 1) from actual people, and 2) conversing in way actual humans might if they weren’t on the internet.