I cannot put into words how profoundly stupid this “feature” is. AOL and Geocities pages were genuinely more user friendly. Whoever added it, refreshed the page and said “yeah, this works well” and left it in should be fired! …out of a cannon and into the Sun!
I didn’t encounter these issues while using another instance but lemmy.world.
Yeah I really don’t know what instance to go for.
Lemmy.world sounds least political but it’s not stable. Apparently beehaw is now also defederated from .world so immediately we’re missing some huge communities that are now going to be split across two instances that don’t work together.
So now I’ll need multiple accounts to use multiple instances of the same thing. This sort of defeats the whole purpose of a connected system. It could just as wel create worse echo chambers than we have on traditional socia media.
If you’re not ready to make your own instance, can use an under-the-radar instance like ours at Lemmy.pro and you’ll avoid the issue
Beehaw defederating from the biggest instances is why I ultimately made an account over here but it’s honestly not a good sign that the fediverse is already imploding. Most of us left reddit to get away from idiots on a power-trip trying to control how we talk to each other and it took about eleven seconds for it to get just as bad over here.
Growing pains. It’s been a week, for most of us…
If beehaw wants to be a secluded small community they’re free to do that. There will be replacement communities.