My opinion on Beehaw registration process. What do you all think?
There are different opinions on Beehaw's registration process. I kind of see how some people would find it dissuasive, specially after most of us are coming from Reddit. But I still think it's very practical, at least for the time being.
Btw, this is only my opinion as a new user, I don't know any of the admins/mods. Link to my original comment.
The funny thing is I actually got rejected (or put in the limbo) once. After making this account and answering the questions exhaustively, I tried to make another account for foss/programming purposes exclusively (I tend to do that for privacy reasons). The second time my answers were much shorter since I didn't want to take up too much time from the admins , and I guess they weren't too convinced, haha. But no hard feelings, I just hope my username eventually frees up and I can make the account :)
There are also some bugs that may throw you into limbo as well on lemmy. Some of them seem like insanely basic oversights like how if you pick an already taken user name it will just spin indefinitely
Oh yeah, that happened to me too. It won't even tell you the reason why. When I checked, I was actually surprised somebody else had already picked the username I wanted so early lol (Hi @styx@beehaw.org, we had the same idea haha)
By the way, I don't know if this is a good time/way to ask, but is it even allowed to register a second account? I tried searching if there was a rule against it, but I couldn't find anything. If it's not, I completely understand and will make another account in a different server :) (Although I would prefer it be here bc I wouldn't feel as comfortable in other instances 😢)
I prefer to have separate accounts for different purposes: personal / dev stuff. Someone pointed out a lemmy instance focused on programming, so maybe I'll just make an account there too. Thanks for replying though!
You mentioned wanting a programming centric account, so programming.dev makes sense. They don't allow open creation of communities. They must be requested, they must be tech related (don't know if this might change). They seem to want to keep the discussions on tech and programming.
discuss.online's admin is working on creating some moderation tools for Lemmy admins. I've been chatting with him on the discuss.online Matrix server. He seems like someone that will build a good community.
Their moderation ethos are not hashed out like Beehaw, but they have both started up this month and I like the vibes so far.
If those don't work out, I'm also starting up an instance that will be up and running soon at grok.town with an ethos that largely overlaps with Beehaw. But at the moment I only have a matrix space set up at https://matrix.to/#/#groktown:matrix.org
Sorry for the late reply, I've been a bit busy. But I'll definitely have a look at them when I get some time. programming.dev seems like it would fit. And ping me when you start your instance and I'll check it out as well 👍 thanks