If people want to be part of a limited community that's fine and well. The issue I have is that a lot of people joining lemmy don't know what beehaw is about and join it just because it's a name they've maybe heard of. Then they're completely unimpressed by lemmy, not knowing they're only part of a fraction of the federation. Next thing they're back on reddit or whereever.

Also, as someone with access to the majority of lemmy instances, I've only ran into maybe a handful of assholes on here. I'm really not sure what beehaw is trying to shelter it's users from. It's easy enough to block someone on the rare occasion.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Its incredibly difficult to join beehaw without knowing what its about. When you apply to join they explain what it is and ensure that you're actually, like, on board with the mission. I can understand the sentiment of users finding themselves underwhelmed and leaving if they don't understand why.

As someone with accounts on other instances, I've definitely encountered far more bigotry and bad faith arguments off-beehaw than on-beehaw. For some people, which would appear to include you, encountering the asshole and blocking and moving on is sufficient, and that's fine and awesome for them. But for others who may be part of marginalised communities or particularly vulnerable, the bubble of safety and curation that beehaw offers is so tremendously valuable.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

Ok, sounds like they've made it a lot more clear since the reddit exodos which is the last time I've had any interaction with beehaw. That's good then.