hi there. I’m new. I’ve recently migrated from kbin.social (RIP) in the hopes of filling that big empty hole in my webs that reddit left after The Troubles.
First impressions after a week of use:
- Beehaw feels a little lonely. Not a lot of activity. Same posts on my subscriptions front page throughout the day with little movement on upvotes and comments. It’s the summer in the north so maybe people have better things to do with their time, but I am wondering, does it pick up?
- Fewer users than kbin? It feels like there are smaller numbers on the Communities subscriptions than I’m used to on kbin. Granted, kbin was inundated with spammers and bot accounts over the last couple of months so those numbers are probably not as real as I’d like them to be, and I appreciate Beehaw’s limits on new members by pushing a signup form and a review process. A social network needs users though.
- Subscribing across instances feels weird. Maybe it’s the instance (lemmy.ca) but I tried following a couple of communities from there and my subscription was marked “Pending”. Are we defederated?
So, my Ask is this: Do you have any recommendations for a newbie at Beehaw to make the most of my experience here? Are there any non-obvious Communities I should join? I’m looking for friends and fun. Where do?
Welcome!
My first instance here on Lemmy was Kbin too but I created a new account on Beehaw as soon as I learned about it.
Kbin was ok for me, the only thing I actually liked a lot was the chat tab or something that magazines had. At the time the UI there felt very frustrating for me.
I like how the administration care about the community and I think from all the others you can actually care about your instance instead of just using it as means to access other content.
Just keep in mind that Beehaw might not be here in the long-term as there’s a plan to migrate away from Lemmy. I don’t think there’s a set day to happen but it will, eventually.
sure. Nothing’s permanent. That’s actually a feature in today’s archive-everything, scrape it for AI training monetization cycle.
but I guess you mean moving away from “lemmy” the software which is an ambitious goal, but a worthy one. Best of luck!