I saw that this instance had a large number of users so I thought “more users->more content->more fun”. Apparently, I had to prove my value by answering 3 questions that showed my interest in their community and my value as a potential future member.
What could possibly be my value to a general purpose instance besides money? I’m a software/cloud engineer so I guess there are things I could help with, but my guess is they were expecting me to say “I can donate”.
I get it, they need donations to exist, but this upfront? And to a community I don’t even know? Maybe I’m imagining things and they were looking for something else?
Do all instances rely on donations? I’d like to contribute to the instances I enjoy at some point. But only if I feel at home with them, not as a prerequisite to join.
I think it would help if you actually posted what you said. I’m a member of both and it seems pretty easy to be let in if you are thoughtful about your answer and it resonates with creating a thoughtfully pleasant space.
No, they are not asking for donations lmao. They just want you to prove you’re a friendly woke inclusive person looking to make their community better with your contributions to their rules, peace, order and love and who knows what else. Just read beehaw org admins’ comments and reverse engineer their opinion and regurgitate it onto an application.
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Explicit policies are better than implicit policies. A code of conduct shouldn’t consist of unwritten rules. Maybe this is why you were rejected? It seems like you didn’t understand the purpose or content of their policies when you applied.
You say common rules but there are many instances without those
most servers have implicit rules, this one has explicit rules, simple as that, and they make it clear they’re a safe space unlike most others that try to look free but aren’t or are freer but get banned for allowing shit, beehaw is just clear about what it is.
I doubt this is about donations.
There is some stuff going on on beehaw, i am not quite sure about the details but essentially they defederated with some other big instances.
This means that they can no longer interact with those instances. And those instances can also not interact with communities on beehaw.
They can interact with other instances but are shielded from every comment and possibly even votes caused by defederated instances.
I believe this is a temporary trend that some instances are doing to protect their communities till better moderation tools exist. Not allowing new people in might be a part of that, Personally i am not a fan of this strategy but apparently current beehaw users are content with this.
I am on the fmhy instance myself, as far as i know we are not defederated with anyone so all of lemmy (including communities on beehaw) are open for me to see and interact with.
It’s quite obvious not what you think about as many pointed out, that being said, an overly regulated instance is boring IMO.
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If beehaw sounds like a place you’d like definitely try again. They’ve just been swamped.
Yeah I’m finding beehaw a great, very active community. They’re doing something right.
Dawg even my clg didn’t ask this much… they saw that I passed my 12 class exam, and asked for a 10k INR to block seat(private education here is a bit like that)
Let them play in their little walled garden.
My answers were really short, and my app was approved. I figured it was a bot check, not actually reviewed by anyone.
I don’t really use my beehaw account though, because they’re heavyhanded with moderation and also cut off the largest lemmy instance, so I’d be missing a lot of content.
Ehat instance did they cut and why?
Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works were growing fast without an approval process and beehaw felt with the current rudimentary mod tools they couldn’t adequately handle the influx of unvetted users. Refederation is on the table in the future though.
For now I have an acct here and there and Liftoff apps makes browsing between the two seemless and I suspect it will be even more elegant once Sync for Lemmy releases in a month or two.
But keep in mind this affects beehaw users the most. If you’re on a smaller instance or kbin you’ll be able to interact with all three.
They defederated from many instances because of open registration s. Trolls were getting through (an inevitable) and the Beehaw team didn’t want to moderate users from those instances anymore.
lemmy.world and yours (sh.itjust.works), as far as I know.
They’re well within their right to do it, but it also sucks to see a fracture like that so early in the fediverse’s growth.
Avoid beehaw
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Honestly, the more I read about beehaw, the more it seems like a lost instance. They don’t federate many people request an e-mail address to register and even have a member casting.
Doesn’t seems like the most interesting place of the fedi
Most places request an email because of bot signups. Next lemmy version reintroduces captchas so instances such as this are only requiring them temporarily.
I don’t think this is about donations. Did you try registering again with more information about why you want to join?
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You keep saying this but maybe you should have just done it lmao seems like you’re just here crying, seems to me their filtering system is working
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beehaw is a “safe space” echo chamber - it caters to very special snowflakes. you’re not missing anything
They want to limit low quality bot and troll accounts, wich i see being controversial for some, however its their instances.
Unless you want to be a part of a curated safe-space you’re not missing anything. If you do want to be part of something like that, we’ll then you’ll need to reapply and sell yourself harder.
Beehaw is trying to be a place where it’s illegal to hurt people’s feelings, not a general instance.
The only reason they have so many users is that they have consistent branding across all communities, which makes them seem credible to people who have no idea which instance to choose.
Have you considered that some users might want a safer place like that? Variety in the fediverse isn’t hurting anybody.
it’s not really variety if it’s a gated community.
Well if you want to get in that gate it’s not so hard. And now I have extra communities to interact with and an app makes it smooth. But if that’s not for you just ignore it.
Rejected me too during the initial reddit exodus a month ago. I said I was looking for a reddit alternative, that I mostly lurk but occasionally post on tech subs as I am a software engineer. No response for a week then rejected around the same time they defederated. Figured they were just mass rejecting people at that point. Was already actively using accounts on lemmy.one and lemmy.world by then. I just use lemmy.one if I want to see Beehaw content.
