Melody Fwygon

Mastodon, for example, would have far better moderation tools than lemmy. As for your concerns with “Adding more moderation hurdles”, genuinely I feel recruiting more mods before and while you spin up a service is fine. That may mean you take time to pick them out and train them right. That’s fine. But I don’t think moderation challenges are insurmountable.

This. I like Beehaw and I respect it’s nature. I even maintain an account here just to separate my more boisterous posting personality from the one that I feel safer in expressing on Beehaw. While I do external-post from my other account; that’s usually to respond to either Beehaw users not behaving in a way I feel is consistent with Beehaw values or to address others from external instances.

But I don’t want to see Beehaw closing it’s doors to the fediverse. If your staff team is getting swamped, you’re getting overwhelmed as admins, etc…then find more staff. You literally have the hugest pool of nice people right here on Beehaw, and I’m sure everyone who regularly posts here would likely be highly skilled at moderating somewhere on Beehaw if needed. Most of the time, Beehaw does not attract nasty people, and the hard work of the moderation done here shows.

Spread the load. Don’t defederate or give up on Fediverse. Invest in mental health buffs for your moderation team as needed if necessary!

I’d rather Beehaw didn’t leave Lemmy outright; but I can hardly fault anyone for looking into other alternatives and spinning them up alongside the current Lemmy instance, getting that new thing up and thriving and then slowly migrating away from giving Lemmy so much attention.

Personally I think a little fiscal conservation would be wise at this point.

Costs can, and do eventually, rise. Hardware fails, and other things can happen as a surprise; and I’d rather that Beehaw not be insolvent when those things happen.

While I get the wish to do fun things to enhance the community; I think we need to be keeping an eye on things too. A few bad months where users are squeezed and unable to contribute could also severely impact Beehaw; particularly in and around monthly costs. At no point should Beehaw admins be paying out-of-pocket for things if Beehaw itself as an organization has the funds to properly pay things.

If we do genuinely have too much funding in excess; examining how we could expand Beehaw or make it better is another way you can responsibly re-invest the funds into making Beehaw better.

Additional servers/services might be neat; things like:

• A Mastodon server, if one doesn’t already exist
• A Matrix homeserver, if one doesn’t already exist
• A lightweight Pixelfed / image hosting/posting Service, if one doesn’t already exist
• Various and miscellaneous game servers/services like Minecraft or other popular multiplayer game servers/sessions/instances.

Of course such things could also require additional staff on hand, so I understand that you might want to entice someone to help manage these extra things first.

in an ideal world he would see that comment tagging him and respond.

…But we all know Beehaw limits federation so that may be less likely.

Maybe if @Jonah @[email protected] would pop in and let us know. I don’t know. Maybe he already posted on Mastodon. Still tagging and paging in the hopes we get more of a clue