Good day! First post 🥇 Hello, thanks for having me, people of beehaw.org 😄
What a cool idea, to have a social media site organised like this ––– I love it!! I’ve been without the algorithm (IG, FB, X, etc…) for quite a while now, and I think the Lemmyverse will be much fun to explore 🔍. I write explore, because the other week I was watching TechnologyConnections new video on the ~ 𝚊 𝚕 𝚐 𝚘 𝚛 𝚒 𝚝 𝚑 𝚖 ~ where he was talking about how many users are feeling more and more alienated by it, wishing for a more self-curated experience. I couldn’t have agreed more, and then I remembered Lemmy from an old MentalOutlaw video, back when Reddit turned 💩 for good (I was never a user).
Anyway, I just have a couple of questions, which I hope, I am posing in the right comm… 🥴
- I want to post to Hexbear’s DIY community – as far as I can tell, it’s the biggest one by far. However, Hexbear is not federated with Beehaw. That means, I’d have to create a seperate account for Hexbear. Correct?
- Do you 🫵 make an account for every instance that you’re interested in, which is not federated with Beehaw?
- Is there a way to see which instances are federated with Beehaw? The /search/ page is helpful, but I have to search manually, whereas I’d like an overview type of thing.
- Do you use an app on Android? I like Thunder, you?
I hope I did okay for my first post 😄
Much love and thanks in advance,
A.
Hello and welcome:)
To answer your questions:
Umm, yeah, you’d have to make an account on hexbear or any other instances that federated with them, but hexbear shut down few weeks ago, due to a domain expiration (I think eventually something new might be created)
It’s not exactly necessary to make an account for every instance, but you could have a few accounts on instances that federate with instances you interested in. I’m on mander which federates with almost all instances, apart from meta’s threads and maybe one more I think. You could check the ideas surrounding an instance before making an account to see if it suits you.
Yeah, to check the instances an instance federates with, go to
"instance-address"/instances, where"instance-address"is the url of your instance. For beehaw that would be https://beehaw.org/instancesAyy, I too use Thunder:)
Hope I helped😄