Hi, I’m u/MayaFey_ from reddit, I am on the mod team of /r/badwomensanatomy.
We were part of the failed protest, and frankly we’re done with spez. We’re leaving. We have a poll on our subreddit to choose between lemmy, discord, and raddle, and lemmy is winning by a large margin so far.
So if lemmy wins, the question will present itself… which instance will we move to? As a mod team, we’d prefer an instance with open registration to lower friction for our reddit members making the transition. And we’re also looking for a place that is not accepting of misogyny or violence against women. This is me sending out feelers to figure out which instances would be a best fit and most accepting of our community.
Some details about us:
Badwomensanatomy is a community about… bad women’s anatomy. Users will reproduce images they found elsewhere (like, a snip of a facebook post, or something from a poorly drawn manga, for example) that state incorrect ideas about anatomy or incorrect depictions of anatomy. Sometimes these posts can be NSFW, or misogynistic, but the idea behind the community is we call these things out and discuss the ways they are ill-conceived and what the correct anatomy is.
Our sub is very pro-queer and pro-trans, and not tolerant of terfs at all. Though it doesn’t specifically relate to queerness or transness, so I’m not sure how good of a fit it will be.
So far, about 40 users have responded to our poll and it’s been 5 hours. Our sub has over 500k subs, but being realistic, only a few dozen or a hundred at most will make the jump. That said, that’s still a lot of users given how small lemmy is at this time.
If you’re receptive to this migration, and the poll confirms the community’s choice to go to lemmy, we can create a community here and start migrating. As a representative of the mod team, I am willing to chip in to the running costs of this instance to compensate for the increase burden.
Let me know what you think.
While there’s a brief question (basically a vibe check) in the signup form, you’re probably going to be much more in-line with the beliefs and attitudes of Beehaw.org than Lemmy. Lemmy is kind of a free-for-all right now; they just had a large Lemmy instance that had to have some kind of big vote or “review” or something over whether or not to ban a The_Donald sub that like 2 people were posting in.
Beehaw is intentionally moderated specifically to be a safer federation space, although you’d have to contact the admins about opening up a badwomensanatomy community (they don’t let just anyone spin up a sub whenever they feel like it, specifically to avoid having to go back and clean out a bunch of TD-like nonsense).
Kbin is kind of in-between those two. Lemmy is the wild west, Beehaw is a protected grove, and kbin kind of tries to keep them both happy without compromising too much on either the heavy-modding side or the “we’re not sure if we’re cool with nazis or not” side. As such, you can see content from both, while Beehaw has defederated (basically blocked at the software level) a couple of the bigger Lemmy instances (including the “do we like nazis? let’s take a vote” instance).
The downside of kbin is that it’s technologically still rough around the edges; as far as I know, there’s like one guy trying to keep up with everything on the backend, and he’s a little swamped right now, so features/suggestions are going to take a while to be implemented.
[Edit: Also, I loved your sub. Y’all rock.]
FYI: Blahaj Lemmy, the instance which we are currently discussing, is also moderated as a safe space. Not entirely sure how you ended up here, but welcome all the same! :)
I mean, beehaw.org is an instance of Lemmy? Lemmy is just software.
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I… guess? I don’t fuckin’ know, I’m not a tech guy. I comment on cat pictures.
Lemmy is a federated system. Instead of one website (which we call an “instance”), there are many websites, each operated by different groups of people.
When a cat picture is posted on one instance, that instance sends a copy of it to all the other instances that it knows about, and those instances show it to their users too. This makes the whole system look like one big website full of cat pictures (like Reddit) instead of lots of small ones.
Lemmy is the name of the software that the instances run. The original instance, set up by the developers of Lemmy, is named lemmy.ml, but now it’s just one of many.
Kbin is the name of a different piece of software. It does approximately the same thing as Lemmy, but is completely different under the hood and was developed by different people. Lemmy and Kbin are compatible, though, and can share content with each other, so you’ll encounter plenty of Kbin users as you browse Lemmy or vice versa.
Lemmy isn’t a monolith, and is pretty different depending on where you go. The instance you’re posting on is a safe space, just like Beehaw (which, incidentally, is also run on Lemmy). There’s also other Lemmy servers that are more modersted like lemmy.ml.
Kbin and Lemmy are just software. There are Kbin instances that are less moderated or moderated too, it just so happens that Kbin is less popular right now and you’re on the biggest server.
The upside of Kbin is that it’s written in php/symfony which is much easier to develop/deploy/scale than Lemmy which is written in Rust. There are a whole slew of developers submitting PRs to Kbin. I expect the team to grow fast.
The other main difference is that Kbin interacts with both Lemmy (reddit-like) as well as Mastodon (twitter-like)