Yeah, people would make Obama and spez mods of their subs for the lulz; it's a disingenuous rumor to lie to spread about a person who has plenty of shitty things about him that people can discuss.

You're describing the reasoning behind the decision. The fact that this is a consequence of that decision remains the same.

Seems like a consequence of beehaw's actions

Lots of places that talk about this

!selfhosted@lemmy.world !selfhost@lemmy.ml !selfhosting@slrpnk.net !selfhosted@lemmy.ml

Self funding or donations

The part where things get tricky is that beehaw currently has ~15 of the top 50 communities across the entire fediverse and has become the defacto discussion grounds for gaming/tech/news/etc.

One could argue this goes against the whole concept of decentralized communication in the first place, and this may be a position beehaw doesn’t want to be in.

Beehaw has every right to foster a tight-knit community that adheres to its desires.

But there also is a level of responsibility and custodianship over these large communities they foster for the betterment and adoption of the fediverse.

I don't think they care? As long as they can pump the communities with ads so they can IPO.

I disagree I think it hurts overall adoption and the classic XKCD comic comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/927/

I respect your opinion, though.

I saw the title and thought it was going to be exciting/positive haha

Beehaw is a lemmy instance, which is the equivalent of a reddit.

There are different communities on this instance which is the equivalent of a subreddit.

You are on a different lemmy instance, kbin.social. Which has its own communities and users there.

The cool thing about this setup is that you can mostly interact with any community on any occasion.

You're currently interacting with !support@beehaw.org from kbin.social

Hopefully that makes sense.

The part where things get tricky is that beehaw currently has ~15 of the top 50 communities across the entire fediverse and has become the defacto discussion grounds for gaming/tech/news/etc.

One could argue this goes against the whole concept of decentralized communication in the first place, and this may be a position beehaw doesn't want to be in.

Beehaw has every right to foster a tight-knit community that adheres to its desires.

But there also is a level of responsibility and custodianship over these large communities they foster for the betterment and adoption of the fediverse.

It's the end of a crazy week, his instance is just a few weeks old, and there are many things to do. I'm sure he's busy and not intentionally ignoring beehaw.

I reached out to him on matrix and pointed him to this thread.