You said it yourself, what most people want (and seem to think this is) is a forum, not a fediverse. Imo a lot of the users who feel a strong need to control everything for everyone will end up leaving, since this is closer to what reddit used to be (you went to r/all and it showed ALL, not the watered down version that they forced for advertising reasons) and we all know it’s not for everyone.
At least something very easy to see was when someone asked or mentioned a brand or model, suddenly a chain of users replied with how good or satisfied they were with it, but never replied to other users comments or inquiries, or only did to those that were happy or ok with it
Perhaps harsh but beehaw strikes me as the tumblr/progressive/sjw types that really wanna build their safe space
They literally said they want that instance to be their safe-space, so you are absolutely correct.
Still it’s surprising how quickly a block-happy instance appeared, I was expecting it but not only days into this reddit-wave.
I’m using Stylus for Firefox and it works so far
It’s working now, thanks. Still can’t see the list in communities without an account so maybe creating a landing community just to check a list and a warning about the content could help
I think you need to create at least one community inside your instace for others to be able to federate to it (tried it but with just the instance doesn’t seem to work).
All of this.
A friend of mine always tells me this is what keeps them from really enjoying it and I agree, the topics have a very “elitist” feeling, almost like if anything mundane just might be ignored or shunned.