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Thinking about the direction of Beehaw (beehaw.org)
submitted 10 months ago by admin@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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Over the years I’ve been trying to encapsulate, as simply as possible, what Beehaw interactions would look like ideally.

I kept coming back to all of my personal memories having holiday meals (Thanksgiving and Christmas for example) with very close family and friends.

Thinking back through decades of these meetings, I cannot remember anything but everyone being kind and charitable in action as well as speech.

Many pages of very thoughtful and reasonable philosophic explanations have been written, on our sidebar, about the behavioral expectations of Beehaw.

Let’s go back to the holiday meals for a moment and imagine having an open invitation for anyone to join. What do you think the outcomes would be?

This is the problem that our endeavor is experiencing. The open nature of ActivityPub (allowing anyone to join our table) is defeating our purpose.

The administrators, moderators and community members have been thinking about this for several months.

I, personally, believe that we all will come to a comfortable consensus moving forward.

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[–] derbis@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the thorough answer. I'll have to do some thinking.

Where are these discussions happening? I haven't seen much on the Lemmy instance itself until like yesterday.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

They've happened here in the open in the communities mentioned but also extensively on our discord and matrix