Beehaw Support

Look forward to being here once the login issues are sorted out! The community's here are so much nicer and higher quality than practically anywhere else.

So, I was looking into a thread on lemmy.ml with some community recommendations for reddit refugees, and it seems there isn't a standard way to link communities in an instance-agnostic way?

For a start, it doesn't seem like the posting interface automatically recognizes community links (so if I write /c/[email protected], it automatically becomes a link to that community), so it seems you need to manually format the text as a link. So in order to have /c/[email protected], you need to write [/c/[email protected]](/c/[email protected]). Is it correct, or is there some straightforward trick I'm missing?

Moreover, it seems like not all communities are accessible from beehaw? Like https://lemmy.ml/c/nomanssky clearly exists, but accessing it from here as /c/[email protected] returns an error. Can someone clarify what's happening?

I'm a bit confused on lemmy instances. I thought I saw that you can join an instance with an account you've made on another one? For example, some people will have "[email protected]" on other instances. How does that work exactly? You can't just sign in?

Hello everyone! The mod queue only took a few minutes tonight and I'm very happy to be here! Excited to chat more with you all :)

Thanks for accepting me here, sadly Reddit is going the Digg route and this seems like a good, up and coming alternative.

Hello all,

After years on social media (going back to MySpace days) I still don't have the hang of it. I have been on FB since 2004. I tried Twitter in 2006 for about 8 months. I also did the Identi.ca thing too back when. Reddit from the early days and Lemmy since the first few months after it appeared. Mastodon was the first I really enjoyed and now that I have been lurking here in Beehaw with my Lemmy.ml account I am happy to switch over.

In jerboa, when I read a post from another instance, if I downvote a comment, it says "downvote disabled". Is this a bug, or can I really not use the downvote button on other instances because I am registered here?

Thanks for setting up this instance! I really like the fediverse model, just wish I understood how it worked better.

Thank you for accepting me. I hope I can make a positive contribution to this community and I will continue to learn more about how it all works.

Still new here and getting my bearings. So far one thing I hate about Lemmy is site wide pinned posts. I don't think that should be a thing unless it's a critical post.

Every time I have looked at the home page there is some pinned post at the top. That's not what I want to see when I go to the home page.

If it's important enough, it will be voted up to the top of the page for everyone. Then it should go back down naturally like everything else. It can be pinned in the community level, but site wide should be incredibly rare.

truly and genuinely from the bottom of my heart so thankful to be here. so thankful for you to do all the hardwork it is clearly evident you have been doing for this website. i appreciate you!!!!! thank you for approving me. i cant wait to be a part of something bigger and better :) <3

Hey everyone, I’m really happy to be here and to contribute to a welcoming, and safe community. Like a lot of you, I’m here because of what’s going on at Reddit. I’d already cut my ties with FB and Twitter long ago, but now with Apollo shutting down, I’ve been looking for a new community that shares my values. I’m happy to be here and with you all on Discord as well. Have fun and be kind!

Thank you for welcoming us! Hope to add to the instance.

Thanks for approving me! Looking forward to investigating more.

Jerboa shows a lot of promise as an app. Curious to see if any of the major 3PA developers take a swing at the Fedi the way the Twitter ones did.

So… hello o/ I’m looking forwards to exploring this new space

Hello, just made an account here. Happy to be part of this new community. Seems lime a good replacement for Reddit atm xd

I appreciate all the welcomes, intros, and new member guidance I’ve seen- it’s all genuinely nice to see.

I always had mixed feelings about downvoting. On YouTube, dislikes were very useful, on Reddit I feel downvotes are just used to bring down dissenting opinions, regardless of their merit, so in a community like this it makes sense to disable them.

Question about how this whole thing works: downvotes are disabled in this instance, does that mean that being a member of Beehaw means I can't downvote, or does that mean that posts and comments within the Beehaw instance can't be downvoted?

Thank your for your work, truly.

So happy to be here, to explore, and to share with the community!

I believe bees are sacred and worthy of worship and any site that elevates them is one I can support!

✊🐝🐝🐝

Happy to be here and enjoying the positive vibe

Thank you all for approving me! Realized I’ve already been more active and commenting on Lemmy more in a day then I have on Reddit in like a month. Loving it here so far!

Hello all! Signed up for a few different sites yesterday, before the crush of today, to see which ones got some staying power. Kbin's incredibly slow right now, Reddit's not just blacked out but down, and Beehaw's over here in the corner rock solid. Think I've found my new spot!

Thank you! I'm looking forward to a better community.

My question is more about lemmy in general: I have subscribed to the Technology community here at Beehaw. However, there is also for example [email protected]. Will I get more / different content if I subscribe there as well? Is there a way to have communities / topics you can subscribe to across instances?

I truly appreciate your ethos! Do you need a random developer's help?