I’m sure people here can empathize with having all the tech wizards get burnt out and leave, and all the various teething problems but this is a bit much… lemmy has its issues but plenty of sites larger and smaller than beehaw are getting on just fine. Perhaps the lib sysadmins are just going back to brunch?
Where did that bring you? Back to me
Very funny that they’re looking to throw in the towel relatively early.
This is really sad for me. Beehaw was what helped me really dive into the Fediverse, and then I found midwest.social through them, and then you guys federated, and now I’m here… but they’re such a kind and sweet place on the Internet.
I get that they’re mostly lib af, but still, they’re very kind, well-meaning folk, and I wouldn’t have found you all without them.
I’ve been meaning to dive back in over there to say hi and be supportive but have had so much irl stuff going on, and man oh man, it just really hurts my heart that they’re going through such terrible growing pains. I meant to contribute to the living expenses of one of the admins because I appreciate their work so much, and then I adhd-taxed myself and got some overdraft fees and was distracted with hexbear in the meantime and totally forgot, and damn do I feel like an asshole.
Idk what the point of this is, except to say that they’re really wonderfully kind people over there, and I’m so sorry that things are getting so difficult for them.
I need to put some money where my heart is and contribute more to them and to hexbear.
Interesting to hear your perspective, because although I’ve never checked it out myself, the overall perception of them around here is very not good
Do you know why? This piece is the shortest of many essays they’ve got about what they’re trying to achieve and why. The basic gist is that they want to make a kind, supportive online community as a refuge for marginalized people. It’s an anti-dunking community, so definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m curious what about them might cause a negative view.
Edit: I really appreciate all the information and perspective ❤️ thanks, everyone
Do you know why?
They pre-emptively defederated from Hexbear (more than a year before we even had the ability to federate) making up the excuse that hatespeech(lmao yeah ok suuuure) was their reason for doing so. The reality is that they have been anti-communists from the start, they are an explicitly neoliberal project with the intent of grooming their users into neoliberalism, but this goal must remain secret so they couldn’t just say “we defederated from hexbear because they’re socialists”, hence the lies.
As you can probably imagine, this creates a lot of animosity here.
Most of us became aware of them when they made an announcement in the midst of the Reddit exodus red scare accusing us of bigotry and hate speech, so our first broad impression was that they are (administrated by) fucking morons who are perfectly comfortable lying about other communities.
Their instance sucks. They’re just libs with a massive civility fetish. The only credit I’ll give them is they at least aren’t trying to recreate Reddit without spez like the rest of the Ledditor instances. It actually would make sense for a civility fetish instance that doesn’t actually want to recreate Reddit to have second thoughts about staying on a shitty Reddit clone.
