I’m joining several writing “subs.” Funnily enough I never joined anything other than WritingPrompts in reddit. So I’m hoping activity picks up around these parts.
I’m still figuring everything out honestly.
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I just joined Lemmy today! Well, technically I joined Lemmy.ml ages ago, but I didn't like it for some reason. Don't remember why.
Well, we're writers, right?
If something's going to happen, we should start creating it.
Yeah, I'm thinking of doing something in the beehaw writing community.
As far as I understand it, the beehaw community is defederated from lemmy.world. And lemmy.world is the one that blew up with reddit APIs going down, it's the one all the newbies like me are signing up with.
That's the reason I posted here instead of on beehaw.
I don't understand. I just joined Lemmy today. What exactly is going on with Beehaw? ^^
It defederated with lemmy.world and I think sh.itjust.works.
What that means is that if you made your account on lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works, and you try to post to a beehaw community, it sort of acts like you're shadowbanned because beehaw isn't syncing with lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works. People don't see your stuff.
As far as I understand, they defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works because the HUGE influx of users would have put a moderating strain on the mods/admins of beehaw...they just don't have the manpower to keep up with huge amounts of new users.
But obviously us new users have no idea how federation/defederation works with lemmy because we're new, so it's very easy to make an account on one of these two large lemmy instances without knowing you'll have trouble interacting with beehaw communities.
To get around it, you can make an account on a smaller lemmy instance that beehaw is still federated with. But AFAIK beehaw does intend to re-federate later on when things calm down, so I'm personally ok with hanging onto my @[email protected] user for now. Not interacting with beehaw hasn't really done much to affect me, pragmatically speaking. Especially since lemmy.world got tweaked to be less laggy/buggy. (Admin team's been doing a good job.)
Thanks for the explanation, it was very helpful!
Side note: I was thinking of creating a PubTips community here (one of the few subreddits I'll actually miss!), but I guess if this community takes off at all, it can encompass both publishing- and writing-related discussion.
Please do! It is the subreddit I miss most. I can’t believe how supportive and helpful it was. Truly one of the small communities I’ll mourn the loss of. Has anyone contacted the mods of PubTips to see what their plans are? Sending them a message is the first worthy reason I’ve seen to break my personal Reddit blackout.
PubTips is the first thing I searched for on Lemmy. Its too valuable to not pursue.
What was it?