The admins have taken a stance where this should be a safe space and those being insulted/harassed/discriminated against are welcome to respond in kind. The most important part is to report it so the mods/admins can review and take action as needed.
While it may not be nice to tell nazi punks to fuck off, it will ultimately make for a nicer community if they do - we don't mind community members saying "hey, this isn't cool" in whatever manner they feel necessary.
I'm in complete agreement. When I joined Beehaw, I didn't think much of the lack of downvotes - "oh, cool, sounds good." It's definitely made it easier to want to interact with the community (as someone partial to lurking) and I've come to appreciate that they're disabled on this instance. Glad to see others are in agreement.
Oh man, MLIA and FML were staples of my internet browsing once upon a time.
I do something similar - I've subscribed to a few communities now that have popped up at the top of my feed because I thought "oh, this looks cool"
I mostly still listen to the same stuff I used to. Most of my favorite bands are still coming out with albums, so every time something new drops I get to add that into the mix. Occasionally I'll add in a new song, whether I hear it in a videogame (my husband loves videogame music, so I've added some great tracks as a result) or the radio or with a friend, but I haven't had a new artist grab me the way my favorites did once upon a time. In that way, I might just be resistant to change.
I definitely don't necessarily have the time to look for new stuff, so I usually stumble upon it. I don't agree that all music today sounds the same - at least, not anymore "the same" than what was coming out ten years ago. Sure, some things within a genre might be similar, but I don't think it's any more "same-y" now than it used to be. If you're finding new stuff you enjoy, past or present, I think that's awesome.
Might be timing then, since it loaded for me immediately - you got the request going and then it was ready when I searched.
I know the Lemmy devs have a huge load of things to focus on with the current (unexpected) influx of users, but hopefully this is something they'll work on improving somewhere down the line so it will be smoother or at least say it's still searching so you don't think it failed
I think the easiest way is to take the link for the post you want to interact with (so https://lemmy.ml/post/1181103) and put it in the search (the spyglass to the left of your username). I just tested it and this should pull up the post so you can interact with it on Beehaw.
Reminder that if you don't see anything, give it a few minutes to pull the information and then try again. Instances we haven't interacted with before can take a minute since the information needs to be pulled.
I think it's just how the different instances interact. If you click the search icon (spyglass) to the left of your name and enter "[email protected]" and click search, you should see this post and the community you're looking for. Sometimes you have to search and then wait for the beehaw instance to pull the information in order for the community to show up, so give it a few minutes and try again if you search for a different community and don't see anything.
For local, I've been using new and new comments personally. I've been browsing the way I used to browse Reddit though, which is a lot, and haven't branched out much, so that may change.
Just letting you know I appreciate your question because the answers are going to help me out, too. Many of us are learning how to use Lemmy, there are no stupid questions.
This is correct. You would need to create a community on another instance that allows anyone to do so, as only admins can create new communities on Beehaw and they aren't planning to add more at this time.
I highly recommend reviewing this post from Gaywallet: https://beehaw.org/post/107014. Specifically, the Spirit of Beehaw and What is (and isn't) Beehaw. These sections go into what I paraphrased above at length, if you want the admin's full thoughts.