The Beehaw project is entering some significant challenges - Beehaw
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There is a lot of discussion happening in the background of our project here. We could not anticipate all of the challenges that we were going to face a few years ago. One of the reasons for this was because we had no idea what our choice of a platform would bring. Specifically, we chose Lemmy as the software that we would use to launch our endeavor to attempt a safe space for marginalized persons online. In the first year or so, this choice was completely successful for a very small number of users. And then we all experienced an enormous influx of users when Reddit announced/implemented their shutting down of third party apps. Since then there has been a huge number of people that have joined the Beehaw project. This tsunami of users initiated technical problems, and otherwise, that we could not foresee. Thankfully and fortunately, we have had a couple of incredibly knowledgeable persons that have swooped in to ’save the day’ and keep this site running. Unfortunately, these persons will NOT be able to continue to support the Beehaw project much further. They have life commitments and other factors, including careers and family life, that will prevent them from contributing to our project in an ongoing fashion. All that being said, Lemmy (the software that Beehaw runs on) development is incredibly slow and is riddled with problems that makes administration/moderation very painful. Therefore, we are left with some options that may feel uncomfortable to us. For example, we may want to consider leaving the Fediverse for another software platform that does NOT include ActivityPub. To explain, Fediverse/ActivityPub are very positive concepts on the foundational level. However, the Beehaw project is struggling to include this because most of our moderation/content/ethos is being jeopardized from OTHER federated instances (i.e. it, mostly, is NOT coming from within our own Beehaw registered user base). The aforementioned persons, that have ’swooped in to save the day’, have been discussing/working with us to come up with the best solutions that would enable the Beehaw project to continue while NOT needing incredibly experienced/technically adept persons around. Right now, we are testing alternative software platforms and evaluating them based on everything that we want Beehaw to become in the future. Thank you all for your continued support of the Beehaw project and entrusting us to make this happen.
  • lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2715·
    1 year ago

    If they can get rid of all the extremist propaganda I’ll probably go with them. So tired of places like Hexbear and Lemmygrad, they’re 100% killing the fediverse.

    • Raffster@kbin.social
      123·
      1 year ago

      Still see hexbear crap on kbin and the blocking feature does not work for that instance and all of it’s users specifically:(

      • downpunxx@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’ve seen exactly the same thing, it’s crazy frustrating, and no one is answering mail from KBIN “support”

        • Rhaedas@kbin.social
          31·
          1 year ago

          I got this reply from Ernest recently concerning spam and other things, including a coming major update. Want to talk about bugs…I couldn’t see any of the replies to my post unless I opened it logged out/incognito. Let’s appreciate that this barely alpha coding has been a lot more stable than the first days and wait to see what the update fixes and breaks.

      • Chetzemoka@kbin.social
        42·
        1 year ago

        Wait, what? I’m on kbin.social and I almost never see hexbear stuff. Why would blocking that instance not work? I blocked the grad like my second day here.

    • Thorny_ThicketEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Choice of instance seems to matter quite a lot. I’ve never seen threads from either of those in my feed nor any porn.