• towerful@programming.dev
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    19 days ago

    Beehaw gets a pass because they are trying to make a safe space. It’s literally their motive. The mods there have repeatedly said they are anti-free-speech, but they are massively inclusive (until that inclusivity hurts someone else, IE they don’t include transphobes, homophobes, Nazis etc).
    Beehaw is a really friendly and welcoming place, they have great discussions, posts etc. Just… Treat everyone like a human, and don’t be a cunt.

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      19 days ago

      Surprisingly Beehaw is more welcoming than LW. LW is just full of power tripping ex-Redditors. I’d actually say that Reddit is better these days. It’s mind boggling…

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.org
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        19 days ago

        Beehaw is more welcoming, but them not federating LW and SJW probably removes 90% of the Lemmy content to their users.

        Also, they don’t plan to update to newer Lemmy versions, which also prevents their users from using new features like instance blocking.

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          Again, that’s their game plan.

          Federating with certain instances increases their moderators workload. Their moderators/admins are expected to perform at a high level (provide a safe place).
          Beehaw respects their moderators/admins. So without the adequate moderation tools, defederation is pretty much their only option.
          They are considering other community platforms. They are hoping federation/Lemmy works for them, but they aren’t willing to compromise on their community goals

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            I am aware they want to switch to another software, and that’s fine.

            It just seems a bit ironic that they complained a lot in the past (and rightfully so) about the lack of moderation tools, but now they don’t offer their users a very powerful one: user-level instance blocking.