Like I said in another reply though, I just mostly feel bad for the tens of thousands of users who were inadvertently driven there by the site being near / at the top of the list of instances on the lemmy homepage, and now have to figure out if they need to make another account somewhere else.
But in reality it's not like any of the majority of new users could possibly have so much of a "oh no all my posts!" moment if they really felt like they wanted to switch lol.
No I completely agree, it's entirely a weird and almost backwards move to be on a federated platform and then seemingly have your goals be at odds with the concept of federation with the majority of the platform.
And while I believe that, as an outside observer, it's also important to realize that from the beehaw admin's perspective they accidentally went from "dozens" to "tens of thousands" of users over the course of a few days.
At the end of the day it's their site and they can do with it as they please, but I feel bad for all the users who were inadvertently guided there by the lemmy homepage listing them at the top, only to be at this weird crossroads now.
Okay, I get it now, and I appreciate the hand-holding you're doing here. It's a wonder I've made it this far at all.
But now, this post has a link to !food@beehaw.org, and if I click the icon i get sent here https://kbin.social/m/!food@beehaw.org which 404s, but if delete the ! from that URL it loads correctly. This seems wrong?
What's the correct format for the url to put into the search bar, because nothing I've done has returned any results when I try to search for those communities from the comment I linked.
So, even if lemmy.world is overall federated with kbin.social, individual communities on other instances also have to be federated with their equivalent magazine here on kbin?
I like the idea, but I feel like something isn't working correctly.
This comment in particular seems to add the icon with the "internal" kbin /m/ link, but their either empty or it throws a 404 error when I try to go there.
Edit: Am i just dumb, and this is still a left over / ongoing issue with kbin's federation in general?
"convincing" is a stretch. I wrote like 2 fluff lines about nothing and they approved the account.
It's kind of silly to think that a bunch of trolls couldn't do the same and join the site very easily. They're essentially trusting their users to pinky promise to tel the truth on the application lol.
Have you tried it out just in the browser? Kbin's mobile interface is pretty great. Also if you use Safari or Firefox you can very easily "install" the webpage as an "app", or use something like Native Alpha to do the same thing (but I think most mobile browsers offer this feature.)
The beehaw admins have stated their hopeful end goal would be a federation whitelist, rather than the current blacklist format. So even if you were to make you own / join a smaller instance it seems like beehaw's entire goal is to be walled off from most instances.
Disappointing but I understand it in the sense that their goal has always been "safe, controlled community" way before they accidentally became one of the largest instances.
I had an account there first, and then made one on kbin since the federation issues with kbin could have potentially lasted awhile, but after this I think it's best to leave beehaw behind if this if going to be any indication of how they're handling their inability to properly moderate at scale. Big red flag IMO.
Same, I think between Dread showing huge Metroid hype in general and the remaster showing interest in the Prime series, Nintendo must know that fans are starving for this thing.
The development scrapping and resetting was tough to hear, but hopefully it'll be well worth the wait.
Yeah, absolutely.
Like I said in another reply though, I just mostly feel bad for the tens of thousands of users who were inadvertently driven there by the site being near / at the top of the list of instances on the lemmy homepage, and now have to figure out if they need to make another account somewhere else.
But in reality it's not like any of the majority of new users could possibly have so much of a "oh no all my posts!" moment if they really felt like they wanted to switch lol.