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.

  • Kras MazovEnglish
    104·
    6 months ago

    You don’t need to like us, but at the very least learn and engage honestly if you want to oppose what we have to say. Comparing us to fascists just shows how you know jack shit of what you’re talking about and how condescending you are. The only reason the world doesn’t speak german right now is because of the Soviets, don’t fucking compare MLs to fascists. Also, “mUh ReAl LefTisM”, fuck off.

    • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
      311·
      6 months ago

      I will stop calling your kind fascists when you stop praising Russia and North Korea (which are not communist states).

      • Kras Mazov
        62·
        6 months ago

        None of us claims that Russia is a communist state, nor do we praise it, this is a straight up lie. If you want to oppose our CRITICAL support of Russia’s fight against NATO and the west hegemony, go ahead, but provide actual arguments instead of fabricating shit.

        Now for the DPRK, it is a communist state, stop consuming propaganda uncritically. Go search what people that study the DPRK have to say. Inform yourself on the fight of the Korean people, what they have gone through and what the US did there.

        I’m not engaging any further than this, you’re just acussing us of shit and repeating common liberal talking points.

        • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
          14·
          6 months ago

          “you don’t like the Korean totalitarian dictatorship? You must be a librul!”

          Why are right wingers so predictable?

          • Catradora-Stalinism☭
            4·
            6 months ago

            i love when ya libs think you’re leftists

            have fun screaming at communists while pretending to be one

            • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
              13·
              6 months ago

              Liberals according to tankies:

              • believe in abolishing private property
              • want a classless society
              • support direct democracy without career politicians

              Communists according to tankies:

              • support totalitarian dictatorships (DPRK)
              • support genocidal warmongering regimes (Russia)
              • support capitalist states (China)

              Tankies and nazis have a very peculiar thing in common: calling everyone who doesn’t believe in their cult “libs” without knowing what it means. Not surprising since they’re both far-right-wingers.