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So what's up with BeeHaw? in c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

[–] boolean@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

yeah, this. I hope they can recover, but it’ll be an uphill battle convincing instances to refederate with it.

So what's up with BeeHaw? in c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

[–] boolean@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

sorry, I’m testing. I had “Undetermined” and “Français” as language selections. Added “English” and checking my language.

So what's up with BeeHaw? in c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

[–] boolean@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

my replies are all showing up as “Français”. Except I’m writing in English. What?

my options in “Select language” are Undetermined and Français as options. Anyway to set a Default?

So what's up with BeeHaw? in c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

[–] boolean@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

how was I not in there? Thank you!

So what's up with BeeHaw? in c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

[–] boolean@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

so nice, thanks for the helpful suggestions.

Honestly, when I wrote my post this morning I didn’t really expect to get any answers and these have all been great.

Thank you @mox@lemmy.sdf.org and all who’ve replied. This feels like a great space.

So what's up with BeeHaw? in c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

[–] boolean@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I had some replies showing as French language, they might not be showing up for you. Sorry, I’m new!

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[–] boolean@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

great suggestions and perspective. Nice to meet you @t3rmit3@beehaw.org ! thanks for the reply.

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[–] boolean@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

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!

So what's up with BeeHaw? in c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

[–] boolean@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Hi Butterbee. Thanks for the reply and the suggestions. Sounds like maybe the "Pending Subscriptions" thing is a bug. I'll have to see about submitting issues.

I realized my plea for "friends and fun" was entirely subjective, but I'm not picky as long as people are nice. I have a lot of interests so I'm sure I can find something to talk about with just about anybody.

And that brings me to another thing I'm noticing about Beehaw: Not a lot of special interest groups hosted locally. Searching for "Photography" lists a bunch of communities on external sites, but nothing local. I find that pretty surprising as Photography's a somewhat popular hobby.

https://beehaw.org/search?q=photography&type=Communities

So what's up with BeeHaw? in c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

[–] boolean@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

I didn't realize there were restrictions on creating communities. That does feel... restrictive.

Thanks for the reply and nice to meet you!

So what's up with BeeHaw? in c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

[–] boolean@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Looking at Local > New on the front page, posts are from:

now (this one)
2 hours ago
3 hours ago
7 hours ago...

quite a gap in post frequency.

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So what's up with BeeHaw? (beehaw.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by boolean@beehaw.org to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

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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?

How's your week going, Beehaw? in c/chat@beehaw.org

[–] boolean@beehaw.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

not so bad