I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it’s because I am limited to using the desktop and can’t aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself aimlessly browsing through r/AskReddit and asking and answering pointless questions.
Yeah there is no point subscribing to the @beehaw communities from defederated servers; the content will not update. I respect the Beehaw motives, but I’d suggest users of big Lemmy and Kbin servers are better sticking with and building communities hosted on the big servers for now while things establish and stabalise. One of the problems is th Beehaw communities are still visible in the directories causing confusion.
There are alternatives, for example [email protected] has 2.9k, but it’ll need people participating to help grow that community.