I signed up for Lemmy.world, because not having downvotes is stupid and leads to a shitty community.

I like lemmy.world so far - relatively neutral admins, no weird stuff like disabling downvotes, you can create communities and post nsfw!

All I put was "I like bees and to yeehaw proudly". Its probably just a way to filter out bot accounts.

I signed up to lemmy world because I thought it was Lemmy's World which sounds like Wayne's World. I like Wayne's World.

I'm here because I didn't know what I was doing when I signed up.

A more serious reply than my last comment – I've been on the fediverse for over 5 years, and on "Twitter-like" instances (GNU Social/Pleroma/Mastodon) there are some communities that either over-police language and have an extremely restrictive CoC, or the absolutely opposite with quite literal nazis spewing nonsense. I just wanted to make sure I found a chill Lemmy server full of mostly regular folk, and lemmy.world seems to fit that description.

Also because because beehaw has sownvotes disabled. Imo downvotes are an integral part of the Lemmy experience. As it is for reddit.

Working as intended then. Because in general most instance admins just care that you've put in at least a little effort to answer their questions, which in their eye makes it less likely that you're a spammer or troll.

I didn’t know there are major differences between the instances (like the voting system). I’m basically here because the join-page suggested lemmy.world 🤷🏻‍♂️. But I like it here :). Still haven’t fully understood how these instances work or work not together but I like that you don’t need accounts everywhere you want to post something. Is there a single server that handles user authentication or how do other instances know my account? 🧐

Wow. I didn't realize beehaw has over 380 instances blocked! Now I feel like I'm missing out on the Lemmy fediverse.

I spent 2 days trying to get my reverse proxy running with my own server just so I didn't have to write 2 sentences lol

I signed up for beehaw initially, got in, but wasn't a fan of some of their rules and how they police speech in their community.

All good, I can still view and participate in their comments, but Lemmy.world had more of the vibe i was looking for

LMAO, felt this.

The last time I had to write a Statement of Intent was to get into grad school and I sure as shit ain't doing homework for a free online community.

I wrote 1 sentence and was accepted.

TIL people think 1 sentence constitutes an essay.

You don't have to write an essay. I literally just wrote "because I'm leaving reddit" and got in a couple days later. Makes sense that approval times may be longer with more people leaving. But, I agree it is a bit much. I use Lemmy.world too just because I didn't want to initially wait a couple days to be approved.

I wrote like 2 lines and got accepted immediately, you don't need to write an essay

Yeah I originally created an account at beehaw.org before coming over to lemmy.world. The main reason I moved was because I wasn't a fan of the fact I couldn't freely create new communities over there (and I don't think you can create communities on other instances?), but also just ~vibes~.

To be fair, this is actually kinda great to see - it's one of the strengths of this federated system. The folks that run these instances are being pretty generous already to just let us talk and share whatever the heck we want, and it's perfectly reasonable for a host to want to be selective about who they let use their resources.

I wrote:

Reddit refugee, let me in!

I'm here cause i was completely ignorant of lemmy and it just so happened to be the link I came across on reddit at the moment I decided to give it a try. I been enjoying my stay so far.

I went through the application process on Beehaw and they never got back to me, so it seems the answers I wrote weren't satisfactory.

That's okay.

I'm fine right here.

*ChatGPT intensifies*

Beehaw seems like a fun community but their admin likes censorship and their instance doesn't support free speech. I'm hoping we can build something comparable to @[email protected] on the free side on Lemmy.

I did the essay for a couple of the popular instances and still didn't get approved

Thank god for lemmy.fmhy.ml

I almost made a Beehaw account since I saw a bunch of the communities I wanted to join were on there and it kept logging me out when I went to them.

I managed to figure it out after seeing that making an account there needs an essay. So I guess I’m just gonna stay based here, waiting to see if and when kbin opens itself up to the rest of the fediverse (since I joined there first but came here when I saw that kbin is currently blocking itself off from everyone else, which is exactly what I didn’t want when making the jump from Reddit to the fediverse).

I started in lemmy.ml

Applied to beehaw, deleted my account, then joined again lol

But I think I’ll stay in lemmy.world.

I never know what I "can contribute". However I have Opinions That Must Be Heard. That's probably sufficient.

Regardless, lemmy.world rocks.

I hopped over from Mastodon.world Ruud does a great job with that one so made sense to join his lemmy instance

I picked lemmy.one at random. Somewhat reduced features for some reason, but otherwise functional. I'm not really clear on what the advantages and disadvantages of any give instance might be.

Those of us who did write an essay still haven't heard anything back yet, so don't feel like you're missing anything for being lazy.