In this post I am speaking as a Beehaw fanatic and not as an admin. That is why it is placed in the chat community. To be clear, I am not speaking on behalf of the Beehaw admin team nor the community as a whole.
Currently, we have $5,430 that is in our collective purse to be used to further this endeavor. When I take a step back, and look at that amount of money, I am humbled. That is hope…it is an expression of where we want to go and what we want to preserve.
You may be wondering where we are with the testing of alternative platforms and any other considerations.
The testing phase, as far as I can tell, is over. We are, I believe, in a stage of digesting all of it. And, I have a feeling, that we are holding out hope that there could be other options we haven’t encountered yet.
I appreciate the patience of everyone involved and I don’t want to make a hasty decision.
Thankfully, we have had persons such as PenguinCoder to rescue us from the huge Reddit exodus and all the technical problems associated with the Lemmy software platform that we rely on right now.
There have been whispers that PenguinCoder could be working on a new platform for the Beehaw project.
Thank you all for grabbing onto our northern star, be(e) nice, and running with it.
Honestly, the solution will sadly end up being that Beehaw’s discussions get posted elsewhere like to Lemmy and potentially better conversations happening on Lemmy won’t make it back to Beehaw’s closed system. That said maybe that’s not a bad thing.
I honestly have the opposite opinion. I feel like better discussion happens in small select groups. I’ve not been impressed by the discussions I see in large groups of people. They almost always devolve into things like slurs, gender stereotypes, and worse.
But then I’m a frequent user of raddle, and my favorite discord server has 8 people, so that’s more my pace.
The best conversations happen among small groups of people selected out of a huge, huge pool of people.
Niche interests and discussions need to be able to advertise their existence to millions in order to persuade that dozen people to actually participate.
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I both agree and disagree with you on that one. While I agree that it is the largest and most active, it alone is still not large enough to harbor the kinds of discussions I’d like to see on its own.