And suddenly all is well.
I feel at peace, I often take things on the internet too literally (in person too lol). The whole “touch grass” phrase that many people use doesn’t really resonate with those of us who are neurodivergent. I’m just weary of the online world, but it’s refreshing to see platforms like Lemmy and others in the Fediverse allowing us to control the content we engage with. It’s not just about the content, the audience is different as well.
Whew! How are you guys today?
You’ll quickly realize that this place isn’t fundamentally different from reddit from an end-user perspective. The same highly opinionated people who think they are better than you (I’m not excluding myself from this, but there are quite a few others here who tend to lean far more left politically than your typical reddit user, sometimes until they fall on their knees and kiss Stalin’s boots), the same kind of moderators with god complexes as in every other forum ever since forums have existed, the same misinformation and propaganda, the same potential for people to ruin your day by showing their true colors. The best intentions by the creators don’t really change all that much, because they are flawed human being like all of us and because it’s ultimately still just the same flawed human beings who make up the user base, people who are not suddenly behaving differently, just because there’s some vague rule to “bee nice” in the sidebar.
Make a decentralized copy of reddit and you get people behaving like they are on reddit, it’s as simple as that.
You can totally have nice time here and I have managed to get my own blood pressure back down to the usual far too low levels by blocking a few communities with the worst moderators and users (or with topics that showed less flattering sides of their personalities and beliefs) and spending more time on topics that offer less potential for conflict, but ultimately, it’s the same ol’ as smaller subreddits or smaller forums of old. The best thing you can do is use Beehaw like a smoker would use an e-cig: As a (hopefully) less harmful detox from social media that ultimately leads to abstinence. I’m not there yet and might never get there, because it’s still social media and still addictive.
Either way, welcome to smaller reddit with bees and lemmings. Sorry for the slightly less upbeat introduction and I hope you’ll still enjoy your stay.
I had a nice day playing board games with my family (Dorfromantik ftw!) and wrestling with my cheap 3D printer (Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro) - which is strong enough to lift itself, not exactly light at 8.1kg, almost entirely off the table on a filament string. Can you believe it? I wish I had taken a photo of this mishap.
No no, you gave me a much needed reality check. Just saw articles about minority groups being run off of some Fedi platforms and it’s very disheartening. Although, I’m glad to see instances like Beehaw and whatever else make sure that everyone has a seat at the table if that makes sense.
almost entirely off the table on a filament string. Can you believe it? I wish I had taken a photo of this mishap.
Woah! No I can’t!
The motor that pulls in the filament is ridiculously strong on this printer. It has never been unable to feed, even if it had to drag the entire printer or a full filament roll across the table. It has broken filament holders and arms, to the point that I had to modify the current solution with a metal core so that it wouldn’t snap apart. I’m feeding from a filament dryer and I had build a crazy contraption that fixes the thing in place so that it’s not dragged around by the sheer torque of this motor - and after this mishap, I have clamped the printer down with metal profiles. My worry is that the next time a filament roll gets stuck sideways in the dryer, the printer will tear itself apart or at the very least dislocate the print head (or destroy the plastic housing of the dryer). We’ll see.
Either way, I adore this thing. With careful calibration and the properly dried and stored material (mostly that, I have to admit), I’ve been able to exceed the print quality of printers more than ten times as expensive, make complex functional prints within days of setting the thing up for the first time. It just took two or three times as long per print.
Just wanted to chime in and thank you for providing a valid critique and reality check for folks. No matter what we do as admins and moderators, humans are gonna human (myself included) and we should be realistic about what this space can and cannot be.
I personally never envisioned this place as being a be-all end-all solution to the problem with social media, just one attempt (among many) to find ways to do it a little bit healthier. Building on the shoulders of giants and all - maybe some of our principles will make it into another healthy platform in the future.
With that being said, I do want to be clear that if you ever have a critique or would like to report things that aren’t working on this instance, please speak up about it! We can only act on information that is surfaced to us and we want to do our best to curate the best space we possibly can in our little corner of the internet and fediverse.
This is also as good a time as any to remind our newcomers, such as @kimagurevenus@beehaw.org, to go read through our docs when you’ve got a minute. Of particular note the core principles outline most of what kind of community we’re trying to provide a space for and how we expect people to act on our instance.
Thanks for the reply. I might come back to you at some point.
A quick heads up: For some reason, this reply does not appear in my Inbox here on Beehaw. No idea why, maybe it’s worth looking into.
Yeah, I’ve also noticed that sometimes replies don’t show up in the inbox for threads with a bunch of replies. I think it automatically mutes replies after a certain number? Unsure, and unfortunately not likely something to be fixed anytime soon as we are not planning on updating our version of Lemmy anytime soon as we wish to migrate to another platform.
Slightly on topic, but I finally read all of the great content you have for the FAQ, etc. and I just want to say thank you for this space. There’s so much to love about this community, and I have a stronger affinity for Beehaw and the vision you and the mods have created here knowing more about the history of how it began and what you hope to create with this platform. Cheers!
sometimes until they fall on their knees and kiss Stalin’s boots
I’m going to push back on that and say that in my experience, the tankies come from outside beehaw, and their ideas get a lot of opposition. I’ve seen plenty of beehaw admins/mods ban MLs that are denying genocide
“Bee nice” is a much better general rule of thumb than “automod reviewed your 10 year old comments and kept banning you from subreddits for half a year after you were already site-banned”.
I’ve been Reddit-free for 1.5 years now, and when I checked it last month, there were new insults waiting for me in the inbox. No, thanks. Even Facebook is (marginally) better than that at this point (although they did ban one of my “favorites” lists for unknown reasons, likely because I forgot to make it private).
