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How would you feel if Beehaw left the Fediverse? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by suspended@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I am one of the admins of Beehaw and I'm trying to get some feedback on our potential move.

Let's start out with a little Beehaw history before judgements are passed, please.

A handful of us were beta testing Tildes when we decided to have discussions on a Discord server.

We decided that our 'Northern Star' or guiding principle would culminate as 'Be Nice' with purposefully vague/flexible interpretations. Our overall goal is to provide a safe space to disenfranchised persons.

We talked for a little over a year and some of our members became impatient. Then someone stepped in to suggest a couple of platforms that we could consider getting started with.

One of those platforms was Lemmy. None of us knew, at that time, anything about ActivityPub.

During the Reddit exodus (surrounding the API outcry and blackout), our instance exploded. We were, initially, crippled by the mass amounts of users seeking refuge.

Thankfully, someone stepped in and volunteered hundreds of hours of work to stabilize our instance and refine it further.

After many hours of talks, it became clear to us that our overall goal could be achieved outside of Lemmy/ActivityPub.

Right now, we feel that Lemmy and ActivityPub have downsides that are limiting us from achieving that goal.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Eeehhhhhh no, that's the gatekeeping "communism is when good" thing I was talking about.

[–] shani66@lemmy.comfysnug.space -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Communism, definitionally, cannot have a state. That isn't gatekeeping. Your can argue about getting there but then tankies generally support states with no interest in actually doing that.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago

Sometimes, sometimes they at least pretend they intend on abolishing the state even though we all know they're lying even just by virtue of "even if you're well intentioned once it exists it will never kill itself." But also that's why they aren't marxists, they're state communists, they take all the leftist communist ideals +state i.e "not right wing." Right wing =! "when state."