Gil (he/they)Jun 18, 2023

Am I making up fediverse drama? No... it's the Beehaw admins that are wrong

https://beehaw.org/post/617130

Am I making up fediverse drama? No... it's the Beehaw admins that are wrong - Beehaw

Alt text: > A three panel meme of someone riding a bike. > > * First panel: Someone riding on a bike. “Reddit is imploding, quick let’s get on Lemmy” > * Second panel: The bike starts to tip over on its own. “Oh shit there’s too many of us, we’re being defederated?” > * Third panel: They’ve fallen on the ground by the bike, holding their knee in pain. “Fucking Beehaw”

Show threadeeeJun 18, 2023
I fully agree. Beehaw is just sabotaging the chances of the lemmyverse getting to a self-sustaining population.
Show threadRetronautickz

It's not the responsibility of one instance to get the threadiverse into a "self-sustaining population"

Specially when say community is:

• Comprised mostly of marginalized people.

• not completely open to registration, but requires your solicitation to register to be approved by an admin/mod

• choosing quality over quantity, and has no intention to grow so much or to become a Reddit replacement.

There are more than 300 instances on Lemmy alone (to that you have to add the kbin instances, of which I don't know the number)

The problem here, and what really is stopping any kind of growth, is the lack of distribution. People are going to the same 5 communities and expecting them to be responsible for all the content creation (by hosting communities/magazines), when part of federation is the ability for every instance to have their own community for a topic.

Jun 18, 2023 at 1:31pmWeb
Show threadspadufJun 18, 2023
Beehaw has the largest communities in the threadiverse. I think suggesting that it's primarily made up of marginalized people is disingenuous. I absolutely agree with your overall take on the lack of distribution of communities being the problem. Particularly that they are all on beehaw.