What in this message made you think your rejection had anything to do with donations? Seems like you're jumping to that conclusion without any evidence.

Beehaw does not really on donations, they are afraid of bring overrun by bots and assholes.

I didn't need to give them a big intro, barelly anything tbh. I'm guessing you sounded or too douchy or to botty

I believe they want to limit troll and bot accounts. I know that if I were hosting a community I would want to vet the members so that I didn't have to spend all my time dealing with compliants and having to delete comments and ban people.

Should've probably asked them. They are trying to be a more curated community. You are expected to read and obviously follow the rules, and reflect that in your short application text.

If it's not for you that's obviously fine. Just like it's 100% within their rights to not want you. Don't make a big deal out of it.

beehaw is a little more restrictive than other instances, not about money but about political alignment, they're making sure you're not being employed by some troll farm to tell everyone you don't like the gays or dogwhistle terf shit

So I can see why people coming from centralized, for-profit platforms would assume everything is about money - because over there, everything IS.

In the fediverse (and the open source parts of the internet in general) - people are doing things for free for others benefit. As such, they don't NEED to cater to and attract everyone, nor do they generally have the time and money to run something that will require full-time effort. They can be choosy. They can look for 'their people'.

Do not take it personally. They didn't even reject you, but they do want you to put more effort into explaining why you want to join. And if you don't want to put in more effort and hate all these rules already then thats a good sign beehaw isn't for you. Looks like you found a good alternative

No, they are not asking for donations lmao. They just want you to prove you're a friendly woke inclusive person looking to make their community better with your contributions to their rules, peace, order and love and who knows what else. Just read beehaw org admins' comments and reverse engineer their opinion and regurgitate it onto an application.

I got in with 3 or 4 sentences about a month ago.

We can't really guess as to why your admission was denied unless you post what you had written.

I'm not sure why you'd jump directly to the conclusion that your denial was based on money?

Beehaw is notoriously strict with their content and philosophical approach to federation. Last I checked they banned hundreds of instances. That’s not my style. I looked for a well moderated instance that left the banning to the user and kept the server up to date and running. In fact I think they still have no instances banned yet. VLemmy did make me register and wait for approval which happened that same day and it’s been a real pleasure.

I have accounts on other instances and Kbin and all instances seem to carry about the same posts when sorting by All. The fediverse requires the user to search a bit more for the community that fits them best, and that’s a good thing.

Try a few instances and platforms. Kbin is pretty cool but not really my thing, I love Mastodon and my instance (shout out to mas.to and @rodti@mas.to).

Honestly, the more I read about beehaw, the more it seems like a lost instance. They don't federate many people request an e-mail address to register and even have a member casting.

Doesn't seems like the most interesting place of the fedi

It's quite obvious not what you think about as many pointed out, that being said, an overly regulated instance is boring IMO.

I don't think this is about donations. Did you try registering again with more information about why you want to join?

Let them play in their little walled garden.

Unless you want to be a part of a curated safe-space you’re not missing anything. If you do want to be part of something like that, we’ll then you’ll need to reapply and sell yourself harder.

They want to limit low quality bot and troll accounts, wich i see being controversial for some, however its their instances.

I doubt this is about donations.

There is some stuff going on on beehaw, i am not quite sure about the details but essentially they defederated with some other big instances.

This means that they can no longer interact with those instances. And those instances can also not interact with communities on beehaw.

They can interact with other instances but are shielded from every comment and possibly even votes caused by defederated instances.

I believe this is a temporary trend that some instances are doing to protect their communities till better moderation tools exist. Not allowing new people in might be a part of that, Personally i am not a fan of this strategy but apparently current beehaw users are content with this.

I am on the fmhy instance myself, as far as i know we are not defederated with anyone so all of lemmy (including communities on beehaw) are open for me to see and interact with.

Avoid beehaw

It's not about money. They do have a particular take on running their instance than most open general-use instances. You can read about that and their rationale and decisions and decide whether it is for you.

Informed by that, you might then decide if beehaw is for you or not. If beehaw is for you, talk about why you are joining in particular regards to gelling with their particular philosophy.

My answers were really short, and my app was approved. I figured it was a bot check, not actually reviewed by anyone.

I don't really use my beehaw account though, because they're heavyhanded with moderation and also cut off the largest lemmy instance, so I'd be missing a lot of content.

I think it would help if you actually posted what you said. I'm a member of both and it seems pretty easy to be let in if you are thoughtful about your answer and it resonates with creating a thoughtfully pleasant space.

Beehaw is trying to be a place where it's illegal to hurt people's feelings, not a general instance.

The only reason they have so many users is that they have consistent branding across all communities, which makes them seem credible to people who have no idea which instance to choose.

beehaw is a "safe space" echo chamber - it caters to very special snowflakes. you're not missing anything