eclipseJun 19, 2023

My opinion on Beehaw registration process. What do you all think?

https://beehaw.org/post/631899

My opinion on Beehaw registration process. What do you all think? - Beehaw

There are different opinions on Beehaw’s registration process. I kind of see how some people would find it dissuasive, specially after most of us are coming from Reddit. But I still think it’s very practical, at least for the time being. Btw, this is only my opinion as a new user, I don’t know any of the admins/mods. Link to my original comment [https://beehaw.org/comment/318907].

Show threadMyNameIsFredJun 19, 2023
I didn’t think it was too bad. Like others I wrote 3 sentences or so basically just answering the questions honestly. I was approved fairly quickly.
Show threadeclipseJun 19, 2023
The funny thing is I actually got rejected (or put in the limbo) once. After making this account and answering the questions exhaustively, I tried to make another account for foss/programming purposes exclusively (I tend to do that for privacy reasons). The second time my answers were much shorter since I didn't want to take up too much time from the admins , and I guess they weren't too convinced, haha. But no hard feelings, I just hope my username eventually frees up and I can make the account :)
Show threadeclipseJun 19, 2023

By the way, I don't know if this is a good time/way to ask, but is it even allowed to register a second account? I tried searching if there was a rule against it, but I couldn't find anything. If it's not, I completely understand and will make another account in a different server :) (Although I would prefer it be here bc I wouldn't feel as comfortable in other instances 😢)

Pinging some of the admins, I hope you're not too busy. @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

Show threadericjmorey
If you don't already know about programming.dev or discuss.online, you may want to consider them for your second account.
Jun 19, 2023 at 1:39amWeb
Show threadeclipseJun 19, 2023
Thanks! I didn't know about them. And genuinely curious, do these instances have good moderation/community similar to here on Beehaw?
Show threadericjmoreyJun 19, 2023

You mentioned wanting a programming centric account, so programming.dev makes sense. They don't allow open creation of communities. They must be requested, they must be tech related (don't know if this might change). They seem to want to keep the discussions on tech and programming.

discuss.online's admin is working on creating some moderation tools for Lemmy admins. I've been chatting with him on the discuss.online Matrix server. He seems like someone that will build a good community.

Their moderation ethos are not hashed out like Beehaw, but they have both started up this month and I like the vibes so far.

If those don't work out, I'm also starting up an instance that will be up and running soon at grok.town with an ethos that largely overlaps with Beehaw. But at the moment I only have a matrix space set up at https://matrix.to/#/#groktown:matrix.org