In this post I am speaking as a Beehaw fanatic and not as an admin. That is why it is placed in the chat community. To be clear, I am not speaking on behalf of the Beehaw admin team nor the community as a whole.
Currently, we have $5,430 that is in our collective purse to be used to further this endeavor. When I take a step back, and look at that amount of money, I am humbled. That is hope…it is an expression of where we want to go and what we want to preserve.
You may be wondering where we are with the testing of alternative platforms and any other considerations.
The testing phase, as far as I can tell, is over. We are, I believe, in a stage of digesting all of it. And, I have a feeling, that we are holding out hope that there could be other options we haven’t encountered yet.
I appreciate the patience of everyone involved and I don’t want to make a hasty decision.
Thankfully, we have had persons such as PenguinCoder to rescue us from the huge Reddit exodus and all the technical problems associated with the Lemmy software platform that we rely on right now.
There have been whispers that PenguinCoder could be working on a new platform for the Beehaw project.
Thank you all for grabbing onto our northern star, be(e) nice, and running with it.
yeah I was initially all for the fediverse but it seems the more and more I interact outside of beehaw, the less and less I seem to enjoy it. Even just browsing comment threads makes me almost pissed off the way people are talking to each other. It feels like a very recent trend too. I try sometimes to tell people that I’m not fighting them but for some reason people outside of beehaw that I talk to almost universally get extremely hostile when I just talk to them about things. It’s such an odd reaction. People on beehaw seem to be fine though.
I guess people come on here just to fight and then get confused when somebody doesn’t want to fight.
And not to wave fingers at people, but I have noticed that whenever posts on beehaw get sour it’s often from the non-beehaw accounts.
I’m disagreeing there. It was always common in large Reddit communities. And because so many people browse with All on Lemmy instead of subscribed, even small communities have that issue on Lemmy.
There’s a great German word, “Streitkultur (German wikipedia)”, roughly “argument culture”, but with a positive tinge, about people having a positive argument about differing point of views. And sadly, that is lacking for most people. The lack thereof in politics made me get disgusted and leave politics alone over a decade ago.
I know it was always common but im trying to say it feels like there’s been a recent spike in the hostility.
Maybe its from the Israel-Palestine stuff but I feel like it’s been going on for a bit longer.
Some people on the fediverse do not want their views challenged and react with hostility. It’s not like that all over, but it can certainly be frustrating if some users treat this as a walled garden of thought and lash out at others for challenging their viewpoints.
Most of the time I don’t even challenge they’re viewpoints, I just talk to people. Not even agreeing even, just chatting.
I think maybe some people want to throw out their thoughts into the void and get frustrated when they get replies on a site built around replying.
Sorry to hear that. Mileage probably varies a lot depending on the communities. I usually stick to a few tight but active communities, and discussion is pleasant