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.
Here’s a list https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances/
Lemmy.one doesn’t allow creation of communities, you cannot downvote and three other instances are blocked.
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Works for me as a habitual lurker. I ain’t got time to maintain a forum.
I signed up for Lemmy.world, because not having downvotes is stupid and leads to a shitty community.
Ironic that three people downvoted this. But I agree, a “no downvotes” rule is designed to avoid disagreement and conflict, which is impossible on a public forum without extremely restricted expression. If the point is to be always be nice, why not disable open commenting and make users select their replies from a list of canned positive comments. 100% safety and positivity.
I’m torn on the whole no downvote button thing (I missed that when I signed up), but you can be still nice while having a discussion and disagreeing with people.
I would argue that the downvote button can lead to exactly what you are describing though, no disagreement or conflict.
Someone posts a unpopular opinion, a bunch of users downvote it to hell and poof!, no discussion or exchange of ideas. Just out of mind, out of sight.That’s only true if there is a downvote threshold that automatically hides downvoted comments, which I don’t think Lemmy has implemented. I agree that downvoting can be used to censor and avoid discussion, but the justification for removing downvotes on Beehaw is something like “keeping a positive environment with no negativity from disliking” rather than making sure users have to voice their disagreements and not just smash the
bluered arrow like cowards.There are issues with both sides of the down button debate, but I’m more for it than against.
For a different take on the downvote button, yesterday I put a post up on a technical thread. I hadn’t really read properly what the discussion was about, so my post wasn’t really helpful even if well intentioned. I only noticed when I got a couple of downvotes. I looked again at my post, then at the OP, then realised my error. Eventually I deleted my post. So, in that instance, I found the downvote helpful to myself as well as for the rest of the thread: make sure I read the OP carefully. ;-)
In this case a reply informing you about the missunderstanding would also work. My hope is that one of the people downvoting will take the time to do that when there is no downvote button.
It’s actually the opposite.
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
same :P
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“Ok great! This is looking good so far. So, all we need now I 3 professional references and a personal reference or two, and we’re all set here.”
-lemmy world probably
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Yeah same. I can feel myself becoming a Lemmy world patriot.
For those having problems with applications, I think I remember having problems in the past due to .ml TLD often being blocked my mail servers, due to being used by SPAMmers and other evil-doers. Maybe those awaiting for a reply should look into the SPAM folder if they have one.
Also, essays aren’t needed. You just have to show you aren’t a bot or troll and actually want to be on the instance. 3 (three) or 4 (four) sentences in my experience should be enough.
All I put was “I am a robot”. Its probably just a way to filter out bot accounts.
I think things have tightened up a lot over there in the last 5 or so days. I don’t even remember what I put (definitely nothing more substantial than yours) and I have an account over there of similar to age. People who have tried to sign up more recently have mentioned being rejected after multiple serious looking responses.
I put a serious response and was snubbed. Only put a sentence or two so maybe they were looking for something more.
Nah I just put “I want to scroll”
So basically @Rick@lemmy.world roll? :-)
I wrote 1 sentence and was accepted.
TIL people think 1 sentence constitutes an essay.
Are you Shakespeare?
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 have accounts on a few different communities. Mostly because there is no real way to know how the community is until you start interacting with it and it starts interacting with with other communities.
Beehaw is nice because they are actually trying to cultivate a friendly community and moderate a lot of the trash out. But also… sometimes you dont want that hand holding…
still waiting for the adm to approve the account (4 days now), ain’t nobody got time for that
What’s the criteria? Who are they trying to weed out?
It’s probably supposed to filter out people who won’t put any effort into contributing content.
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.
I wrote two or three sentences I think, got accepted quickly. Maybe they’re dealing with an influx of applications.
From what I’ve heard, there’s thousands of applications they are working through so it may take a bit to get caught up.
I’m guessing. I’ve been waiting 2 days on anything from Beehaw. Meanwhile, signing up on lemmy.world took 10 seconds.
Did you try subscribing instead? Once you sign up for one instance, you don’t have to sign up for another. I only signed up for beehaw.
I plan on subbing to the things on beehaw that I like. I just liked the concept of their community so I wanted to sign up there. That didn’t work out though.
It does require an email.
I used a throwaway one, is that allowed? It still appears on my settings, and I wonder if they’ll make me verify again when I won’t be able to access the same throwaway account…
That’s why I have an address just for this stuff. Never seen a use for a throwaway unless I’m gonna scam someone and I’m not doing that hahahh.
Also because because beehaw has sownvotes disabled. Imo downvotes are an integral part of the Lemmy experience. As it is for reddit.
I just think its fantastic that instances can try different things and users can (actually, really, for real this time) easily vote with their feet.
Wow. I didn’t realize beehaw has over 380 instances blocked! Now I feel like I’m missing out on the Lemmy fediverse.
Shame the instances list doesn’t include reason for blocking. Looking at the names most seem obvious (and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on those) but there must be some grey areas.
Having a reason listed would be nice. I picked one off the list that I couldn’t figure out from the name alone why it would be banned and decided to take a look and see why. I was apprehensive. What horrors was I about to see?
Couldn’t figure out why it was banned from the content alone. I looked it up and found a website that has their defederated instances list and the reasons. I didn’t see anything that matched the reason given, but I didn’t care enough to keep digging further.
I think the list is shared among a few instances.
