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How would you feel if Beehaw left the Fediverse? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am one of the admins of Beehaw and I'm trying to get some feedback on our potential move.

Let's start out with a little Beehaw history before judgements are passed, please.

A handful of us were beta testing Tildes when we decided to have discussions on a Discord server.

We decided that our 'Northern Star' or guiding principle would culminate as 'Be Nice' with purposefully vague/flexible interpretations. Our overall goal is to provide a safe space to disenfranchised persons.

We talked for a little over a year and some of our members became impatient. Then someone stepped in to suggest a couple of platforms that we could consider getting started with.

One of those platforms was Lemmy. None of us knew, at that time, anything about ActivityPub.

During the Reddit exodus (surrounding the API outcry and blackout), our instance exploded. We were, initially, crippled by the mass amounts of users seeking refuge.

Thankfully, someone stepped in and volunteered hundreds of hours of work to stabilize our instance and refine it further.

After many hours of talks, it became clear to us that our overall goal could be achieved outside of Lemmy/ActivityPub.

Right now, we feel that Lemmy and ActivityPub have downsides that are limiting us from achieving that goal.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Personally I would like to see you have private communities on your instance and public ones and let your users CHOOSE whether they want to how other instances blocked (you could even default to a white list).

Federation is awesome but I also get wanting more private groups

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Good riddance. All an instance acting like a walled garden does is hurt the entire space, and that doesn't just apply to beehaw.

Side note; what the hell do you have against serial experiments lain? It's weird that it's on the list thrice, and I didn't even know there were new sites about lain, so thanks for that i guess.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

I've had mostly negative interactions with ultra left beehaw users, so if that's who you aim to protect from a real world reality check, by all means.

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