Hello world! A long time ago I used to play a game called EVE Online. There are silly little creatures called Fedo there. So when joining the Fediverse, I made a bit of a pun.

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  • These guys are even more paranoid than many smaller instances about user names that appear to be randomly generated. Your own user name, as others in this thread suggested, would easily trigger their auto-ban rules. And a human moderator would take one look at the name and think the same thing.

    God damnit, it took me until now to actually read their username. It’s the youtube URL for the rickroll video (ending in XcQ). I think you’re right though - it was obviously autogenerated originally and only took on its current meaning via Youtube’s use of the string.








  • One thought that’s already occurred is more dedicated efforts to grow communities that are useful to minority individuals or may attract them to use this site.

    That sounds like a great idea, although not without its challenges (as an example, finding people both from those groups, and also willing to invest time into the community as leaders/mods). It would be very hard to found a community like that without finding someone who closely knows what that community needs and what would draw the group to a given social media platform; but if the process was done right their participation would certainly be a big draw for the site!


  • [edit: on re-reading, the sentence that followed it that said “I think there’s outreach to be done” is clear, even if I think the words could have been ordered better for flow, and connect this more directly and closely to the “unfortunate” comment.]

    The charitable interpretation of it is that we need to be intentionally welcome and aware of POC in the community

    Yeah, I think as written it implies too much to be interpreted unambiguously. I agree, the charitable interpretation is “we need to do more” but that’s an inference that is drawn from my pre-existing understanding of beehaw’s management and vision, and maybe a sprinkling of trust in their intentions.

    Without explicitly stating “unfortunately we failed to reach minority communities,” my feeling is that it leaves a lot of room for accusation of other parties for the “unfortunateness” of the situation or misreading of future intent, and personally I think that just leads to unclear communication.







  • It makes sense to fix it, I suppose. It wouldn’t really make sense to just downvote it every time it comes up, that wouldn’t be fair.

    It’s kind of funny to me, I was part of the French meme-magazine on the old “orange reading site” and german meirl would get referenced occasionally. Now I get to see that magazine (ich_iel) most of the time I log in, even if I don’t fully understand it, and the ones I understand are pretty good.

    PS: this really throws a spotlight on how anglocentric /r/all was