• Hanabie@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    They made the users suffer for their unwillingness to cope with their situation.

    Instead of planning ahead and only accepting a limited amount of users, which would have severed only a fraction of users from us, they decided to grow to become one of the biggest instances, and now took some interesting communities with them, along with cutting off their own users from communities here.

    I hope their user base migrates to other, more open instances, and the communities lost will spring into existence elsewhere.

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      1 year ago

      Wow… I’m new here so I’m still learning how all this works but I tried to apply to beehaw at first and they were having severe issues with their approval system so I either got denied or, most likely, got stuck in application purgatory.

      Honestly, with how Lemmy is set up, it seems like it makes more sense to cater your instance to a more niche crowd than “all nice people” like beehaw was attempting to do.

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        1 year ago

        I’m new here too, could someone explain the difference between Lemmy and Beehaw (and kbin which it looks like this is posted on?) and what it means that they’re defederated?

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        1 year ago

        What’s most regrettable is the timing. Just when Lemmy had a big growth spurt, they cut off a big part of the community. We’ll likely see this happen again in 2 weeks, when Reddit shuts down all 3rd party mobile apps, and again when they close old.reddit. I hope that some of the issues Lemmy currently faces will be fixed by then.