I think what we mainly lack is people asking questions, not a particular set up of tech.

Why?

Looks like AI wrote the article

Knowing history, that’s a one tape I have no intention of listening. RIP the crew and all other early space flight pioneers who perished pushing the boundaries of our planet.

There’s a good write-up from the Beehaw admins here: https://docs.beehaw.org/docs/important-questions-decisions-and-reflections/beehaw-lemmy-and-a-vision-of-the-fediverse/

Yeah, as a beehaw user, I’m pretty familiar with the situation. I’m not going to re-hash the whole thing here (and I don’t represent the instance), but let’s just say PR’s for features were offered, but not accepted. Discussion was attempted but it resulted in Lemmy devs asking beehaw to fuck off - so that’s the end of that.

There’s an alternative being tested. I believe we’re going to Sublinks, but there’s still active development going and sizeable migration. So we’re still here. For the time being.

Yeah, exactly the beehaw vs. lemmy situation.

Thanks for the context.

And yeah - a lot of fedi is built on spur of the moment inspiration without much planning on the long term. Sometimes it works out (like pixelfeed and the other related projects) and sometimes the passion of one (or small group) of devs just isn’t enough.

Lemmy is pretty good example (from the other side of the scale) as well - we’re at version 0.18.4 - and the devs are pretty hostile.

Congrats and/or condolences for this “moment”.

I guess I’d have to check mastodon to find the rest of this thread and the context of what it actually references. Posting into Lemmy/Kbin groups from long mastodon threads is quite janky experience, I find.

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More likely, they were saving costs and fired the non-essential janitor who turned out to be totally fucking essential

I have water leak and fire alarm sensors and a security camera. Fairy low maintenance and I kinda want to know if any of these go off when I’m not home

No.
“American Dream,” was built on belief where workplaces are meritocratic environments where workers, regardless of their background, can, on merit and abilities overcome any deprived situation they may find themselves in and rise above.

Just like communism when the Wall fell, I think it’s safe to say this ideology, when tried and tested, has been proven a total and complete failure.

Ask if they’d like a cup of tea and tell them I’m really sorry we fucked up the world. Then I’d leave them be, to enjoy the 3 hours they can spend here.

In a “pure”, transformed anarchistic society the large majority of people would subscribe to the idea of classless, stateless society where people act on their own responsibility or through voluntary associations and seek to reduce or even end violence and oppression. In such society only the minority would be willing to wield the big sticks of oppression.

Also in such society, the majority would obviously rise up against such attempts at pure fascism. Even though the basic ideology of anarchism is rooted in pacifism and non-violence, it doesn’t mean anarchistic societies would simply give up the their ideology, roll on their back and surrender when faced with violence.

Also, I personally believe, that the way to the transformation from our current society to anarchism is only possible through means of revolution - and revolutions are very seldomly non-violent.

I know you didn’t want to read long manifestos, but this is probably worth a read: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state

The real answer is of course far more nuanced than this post, but I tried to keep it short and readable

My first computer was an old Sinclair ZX81. It was my friends dad’s old computer, I got to borrow it over school summer break as they headed to India during the summer. Spent most of that summer learning the basics of BASIC, but you couldn’t really do terribly much with it.

I think this was 1982.

Got my own ZX Spectrum 48 couple of years later. Glorious times gaming and programming.

Haha, the whole thing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN6XfyQsr4

Thou shalt not steal if there is a direct victim.
Thou shalt not worship Pop Idols or follow Lostprophets.
Thou shalt not take the names of Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Johnny Hartman, Desmond Dekker, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix or Syd Barrett in vain.
Thou shalt not think any male over the age of 30 that plays with a child that is not their own is a paedophile. Some people are just nice.
Thou shalt not read NME.
Thou shalt not stop liking a band just because they’ve become popular.
Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.
Thou shalt not judge a book by its cover.
Thou shalt not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover.
Thou shalt not buy Coca-Cola products.
Thou shalt not buy Nestlé products.
Thou shalt not go into the woods with your boyfriend’s best friend, take drugs and cheat on him.
Thou shalt not fall in love so easily.
Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls’ pants. Use it to get into their heads.
Thou shalt not watch Hollyoaks.
Thou shalt not attend an open mic and leave as soon as you’ve done your shitty little poem or song you self-righteous prick.
Thou shalt not return to the same club or bar week in, week out just 'cause you once saw a girl there that you fancied that you’re never gonna fucking talk to.

There’s a second verse, but I think I’ll leave it at that.

BBC feed had a video - looks very much like runway collision https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-asia-67862184 (scroll down)

As a relatively new Beehaw user (I deliberately waited for the reddit exodus to subside before applying), I understand the reasoning. The “default” open nature of ActivityPub creates moderation challenges for a “well tended garden” - much more so than a more controlled space. I also understand the software (lemmy) itself is somewhat problematical, both politically and from technical/maintenance perspective.

I wouldn’t be against moving - and I’d follow. The Beehaw groups are active and contain lot of good quality discussions, I’d assume that wouldn’t change outside fediverse.

I’d be still free to access the fediverse through other kbin/lemmy instances if I wanted to participate and I wouldn’t close my Mastodon account just because Beehaw decided to move somewhere else, so I wouldn’t personally lose very much - and I would stand to gain a “safe haven” - a more closed discussion forum I could always turn to when the noise of the outside world gets to be too much.

For the sake of everyone moderating Beehaw and our communities, I’d completely understand. Fediverse is a very rowdy bar and as volunteer bartenders, it must be somewhat tiresome for you.

In the long term I’d worry about building a too small echo chamber without the required diversity for Quality Discussions and I’d also worry about “hiding” - it would be harder for fellow disenfranchised cretins to find us - and perhaps we’d lose good members. I know the Beehaw strategy priority is not centered around growth, but nevertheless, some kind of strategy would have to be devised to monitoring the long term health and diversity of the community.