Beehaw dominates my feeds by having many of the most popular groups and posts. And yet, I can’t participate in a single one, despite having two accounts on two of the other major instances. Neither are accepted there.
Fine! I’ll make a Beehaw too so I can, you know, actually participate.
But no I have to apply? And I have to give reasons of why I should be let in? The fuck?
Well my application was rejected, I guess for being to vague on what I was joining for? I’m joining for a variety of communities and uses, as I’m sure most users are, so wtf kind of questions are those anyway.
Use a god damn captcha and let people fucking have accounts and use the fucking platform.
Honestly its their fight to lose. Or maybe win, in their eyes. They’ll be the smaller, left out community in a few weeks as more and more people migrate in with new apps and instances. Maybe that’s what they want.
If I recall they aren’t trying to be a large mainstream instance, they’re trying to be a safespace, if that means limiting their userbase then so be it. I respect the admins’ decision so I just don’t interact with their communities from instances with open registration
I think the big problem was that they were one of the initial, fairly open, popular instances. And only after they gained popularity did they decide to shut and barricade their doors. It feels kind of bad to have been participating in there and then to suddenly effectively “banned” from participating in some of the (at the time) most popular communities.
If they had initially began with their walled garden intent (like Tildes has done), it would be less jarring. As it stands, it’s a bit like having the rug suddenly pulled out from under you. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth and I don’t necessarily appreciate the way the admins over there are handling things. It should have just been that way from the beginning and I wouldn’t have had a problem with it.