Hawne

I cannot exclude the possibility that the recent increase in bot accounts on some instances is somewhat linked to such already engaged subterfuges. I mean, the time frame is way too coincidental.

That's quite informative and reassuring, thanks a lot. It may be what I needed to tilt the scales towards having a look at beehaw.

If you can't stand a side remark and a bit of rabbithole chasing maybe you'd be more comfortable with something more rigid than the fediverse, unless you take it as a country club. And oh, a couple users frowned upon my comment henceforth you are so right and I am so doomed.
Sigh...

I did it on purpose. This post will draw attention to people both beehaw-savvy and beehaw-enthusiasts enough to appreciate the error page, which place could be better actually to educate my prejudice?

Attention whores. Won't buy.

A hell of a job. I took the lazy way out and just deleted all of my contributions, and will be GDPRing whatever's left or restored in a while. New platform, new content, same mind and fingers.

Call me stubborn if you must but as long as beehaw is playing the maverick part and not willing to be a full and compliant part of the fediverse I just won't raise an eyebrow. Well, not right now at least.

It's not that I'm super-informed and henceforth condemning beehaw or whatever, I just feel like transitioning from bigbroreddit to the fediverse is enough change without betting on the outsider that's whistling their own tune already.

If someone can educate me bringing some food for thought about beehaw I am willing to listen and eventually learn.

Reddit posts on lemmy via RSS, multiple clients blooming, nodes welcoming the exodus, the fediverse is thriving. Might be the one thing we can show spez some gratitude for!

I like the way you're thinking, I certainly lack a bit of perspective after all that pessimistic-driving reddit ruckus. Gotta shed those old habits and reflexes.

Still, the worrying proportion of users ready to renew the "feed the beast" experience raises some concern. Rejoining @timewarp here, we have to inform people and spread the good news.

There's something I find quite concerning: on a recent poll on r/redditalternatives the "best" alternative by a large amount is squabbles.io, then beehaw, fediverse "regular" instances (kbin, lemmy) only coming in 3rd and 4th position.

If that poll really reflects the opinion of the average reddit Joe (I tend to take external polls with a grain of salt as they can easily be brigaded), not only people are voting en masse for a centralized solution - again, but also they're favoring the maverick fediverse instance over proper ones.

Even more concerning, this snippet taken from squabbles.io's privacy policy:

Disclosure of Information
We may share your personal information in the following circumstances:

With your consent or as otherwise necessary to provide our services
With trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website and services
When required by law, or in response to a valid legal request
In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, in which case your information may be transferred to the acquiring entity

To put it bluntly: brace yourselves, we will sell your data (and likely the company) as soon as we get enough dough from it.

Amen to that!