Yes I'm with you there. It reminded me a lot of the common reactionary strategy of purposefully misinterpreting a question in to make the question asked sound unreasonable. Trying to paint it as though promoting them equally with all the other instances is a neutral action/position.
I'm also quite unnerved by the responses to @Gaywallet@beehaw.org in regards to the promotion of instances that spread bigoted ideas and harrass other instances on join-lemmy.
The complete disregard seems to run counter to the ideology that beehaw is built on. It becomes clearer to me as time goes on that beehaw and lemmy have very different (and in some cases opposite) goals and priorities in mind. I for one would be completely onboard for a switch. I've admittedly used beehaw and lemmy in general less and less as the moderation issues and shift of tone in conversations have increased.
I think the admins and moderators of beehaw have been doing a wonderful job with the hand dealt regardless.
I mean realistically they probably do know that. They just frantically do not want to be associated with anything perceived as gay, to a comical degree.
You love to see it!
It's kind of unrelated but I think the lack of downvotes pairs well with lemmy's lack of vote counting (a.k.a karma score). Counting your internet points always feels so performative to me and kinda ruins the point of upvotes in the first place.
Beehaw.org is run off Digital Ocean, they currently have 16 vCPUs and 32 gigs of ram. They plan on hopefully scaling back down once the whole reddit migration situation has calmed down.
Overall I'd say it feels bittersweet. It sucks that reddit is being screwed over, but it could be really good for lemmy as a whole as long as we get through the growing pains. I like our community but it could use more people posting/commenting and driving up the engagement. Some communities are just too sparse right now.
Oddly enough I feel like I'm going to miss the UX from boost more than the subreddits themselves. Even the better ones have so much negativity in the comment sections that there's no point in participating in the conversations, even with the wealth of content compared to Lemmy currently.
Looking forward to the growth from Lemmy apps such as Jerboa and Mlem.
Videogamedunkey and NakeyJakey make some great/hilarious content.
There's also a soft spot in my heart for Jerma985 though these days he does twitch and only occasionally posts clips to his second channel.
This is really nice to see, glad he's taking a vocal stance as opposed to ignoring everything.
I have to agree, I never used the VA features. I was prepared to have issues with banking apps and such but found myself not having issues with even those.