• Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    40
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    5 days ago

    Beehaw is known for being way too heavy handed in moderation, though it hasn’t been too much of a problem because they decided to defederate from the large instances, which really killed the majority of the network effect they originally had in the fediverse. Honestly I’d just recommend staying away from them, they’re not a bad instance but you will encounter and deal with a lot of petty shit like this in their communities.

    • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      5 days ago

      Talking to beehaw users on communities in other instances is almost always nice in my experience.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        15
        ·
        5 days ago

        I’ve never had a problem with Beehaw users, it’s not like with Hexbear where people there are assholes who will attack you. Their only issue is the heavy-handed moderation, though my experience with Beehaw users has been few and far between, and that’s not a coincidence, but rather a negative side effect of that heavy handed moderation, since Beehaw has defederated from the largest communities and over-zealously bans users from the instance. Which has the effect of isolating their community, and their users.

        From what I remember a lot of people who were joining Beehaw in the earlier days of Lemmy ended up switching to lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, or lemm.ee because they were missing out on all the content.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        5 days ago

        Do you mean instance bans or in lemmy.world communities? If it’s community bans that’s different since those are often not affiliated with the instance admins. Beehaw though has not community mods, everything is completely and tightly controlled by their admin team, which makes their transgressions so much worse and reflect on them as an instance, and not just one community, or one moderator.

        • ramsorge@discuss.onlineOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          6
          ·
          5 days ago

          Communities. Although some mods do have the ear of the instance. None of them seem to like talking about reality.