Ok so TLDR for people who don’t quite know what this means.

Beehaw are going for a walled garden approach and cutting off our access to content from some of the bigger instances. This is fine, it’s their right as instance admins and it creates a safer space for anyone who was only browsing Beehaw local communities anyway. It’s best they’ve done this now before even more people join, but it does suck for those of us who already built a nice feed.

As users we now have a decision to make. If you’re an active member of a community on one of these two instances, you’ll probably need to migrate your account.

If you’re an active member of a community on another instance, bear in mind if that instance grows large you may then be in the same position.

The bad news is there’s no easy way to migrate accounts here like there is on Mastodon, and we’re going to have to resubscribe to everything all over again from whichever instance we move to. Unless anyone knows any handy tool or anything?

(p.s. It seems like I can still click through to my communities on, say, lemmy.world but presumably they’ll no longer update. This is going to really confuse people as there’s no visual indicator that the community is blocked from my pov)

I cannot deal with how smol she is omg

Honestly it is a bit weird, yes, but you do you 😄

I never did Twitter so can’t say what’s different about Mastodon. But I have two accounts there for two separate main interests, crafting and gamedev.

On both of those accounts it’s just a nice way to see what other people are up to within those topics, share my own projects, and generally meet new people and get into conversations around our shared areas of interest.

You can do that here on Lemmy too of course, this just lends itself better to longer in-depth discussions while Mastodon is better for more casual chatter.

I like them both and am happy with my life choices 😄

What a time to be alive 🍿

I mostly used RiF, but installed the official app during a trip last year to do logistics with someone who was using the built in chat.

I don’t tend to always have data on my phone, because WiFi is everywhere, and just add some when I’m going on a trip like this. I’d loaded up a fiver’s worth the morning we left, which usually sees me through an entire month in these situations.

Woke up after the first night away to an alert that my data was all used up. And on further investigation, guess which app was the culprit? Just literally sitting there overnight while I was asleep, gobbling up a month’s worth of data to do god knows what.

I uninstalled the app.

Yep they’re on fire, husband was on there but has temporarily moved back to Lemmy since Kbin isn’t federating. They’ll sort it aaaaht I’m sure.

Think you ended up in a different thread to where you intended, fyi.

Buns forever!

I know it’s not the point of your post (which I did read and also agree with) but just in case nobody else has mentioned it…

In your summary you said you’d signed up for “other instances of Lemmy” and I just want to make sure you know you don’t need to do that to join communities in other places! :)

It was right in front of me!

Ok ngl I have tried the biscuit one. It smells amazing, so realistically biscuitty, but the taste is…questionable.

So if you’re more into sniffing your drinks these could actually be a good shout.

Precious, precious alone time. Make the most of it!

I may have accidentally stayed up all night to watch the meltdown and am now dead. Worth it to be there for the moment /r/funny went offline though (at like 5am, omg I am too old for this sort of thing!)

Today is gonna be rough, I have to somehow perk up enough to record a YT video and seem like I’m happy about it.

reaches pathetically for the kettle

I’ve seen people literally signing up here just to make like 50 empty communities and not post or comment on anything at all. Definitely a lot of folks just trying to stake some territory that they think will be valuable in the future.

You’d need to sign up for a totally new account. There is talk of adding a migration feature but obviously that’ll require a bit of patience, they’ve got a long list of feature requests!

Smooth plug, respect ;)

Along with a terrifying curse to stop them taking the new one. I like it.

Now this is the kind of hard-hitting info I came here for :D

I’m on Beehaw and managed to join this one ok. I think there’s a delay when the first person tries to search for an instance, before it actually shows up in results. Not ideal but maybe try it again now?