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.
Lol, so good I left Beehaw already. Do whatever you want now, not going to miss it, neither their admins.
I really liked beehaw at first, but their admins (specifically alraza maybe was her name?) was the epitome of “tinpot dictator”.
It was obnoxious to see her flout their rules/spirit of their rules and be a dick to people and not approach them in good faith.
They had they essay on their site re: moderation. Ironically, about assholes causing people to quietly just leave. That’s what I ended up doing. I didn’t want to invest a bunch of time on an instance that had such a petty, opinionated admin running it.
So yea, leave if you feel like it. I don’t know that I would notice.
Thank you for your constructive contribution to the discussion
You are welcome, thanks also for asking my opinion about this too.
My post isn’t a “constructive” contribution, neither a “destructive” opinion. I might just be rude saying that with those words, but I didn’t insult anyone or anything, I just said I disliked it and that I took a good decision to move after reading this. 🫤 I do like the Fedi, I suppose you can get it.