alyaza

@alyaza@beehaw.org

internet gryphon. admin of Beehaw, mostly publicly interacting with people. nonbinary. they/she

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Book Bans Are Surging in Florida. So Lauren Groff Opened a Bookstore. (www.nytimes.com)

If you want to belong, find a third place (www.vox.com)

Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (www.theverge.com)

Can electric woks produce great stir-fry? (grist.org)

alyaza, 1 day ago

this article is a byproduct of some delightful media news (Grist acquiring the long-shuttered ), incidentally

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At this student encampment, Deaf protesters built a model for accessibility (19thnews.org)

Women are leading the charge for gig worker rights in Thailand (restofworld.org)

In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back (hakaimagazine.com)

Decades of documenting US skateboard culture from a woman’s perspective (www.huckmag.com)

Beavers Are Back in London — and They're Thriving (reasonstobecheerful.world)

Why anti-LGBTQ legislation in Africa is a western problem (www.gaytimes.com)

Nederland repeals “rights of nature” for watersheds to better pursue new dam (coloradosun.com)

Inside Germany’s Taxpayer Funded Neo-Nazi Networks (www.thedial.world)

There are a lot of tanky posts coming from lemmy.ml. Their whole purpose seems to be to troll and spread their bullshit far and wide. They are nearly as bad as the alt-right. They argue in bad faith and celebrate authoritarian oppression. The beehaw mods might want to consider defederating.

alyaza, 1 day ago

Obviously, my point is that beehaw admins should accept that they made a mistake and refederate with sh.itjust.works. I would also recommend upgrading to the latest version of Lemmy, because it at least gives users the option of instance blocking. I understand that you intend to move to Sublinks or another platform in the future, but in the meantime you are neglecting your users by allowing the current implementation on Lemmy to languish.

unless we’re compelled to, it is exceedingly unlikely we will upgrade. we are fully committed to moving off the platform so it just makes no sense to prioritize Lemmy updates.

with respect to refederation: we already polled that with both SJW and LW months ago and were given a very definitive no, do not refederate from our userbase. only 11% and 17% of our users were in favor of refederation respectively, and majorities were fine with continued defederation from both. our defederation policy was also strongly supported. (i believe this is the first time these numbers have been posted because they were so definitively in favor of the status quo.)

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/0be97b04-b236-46fa-8605-0ed48a03d642.webp

At the time that they defederated SJW, Beehaw was more that 3 times larger, at about 12k total/3k monthly users. Now, SJW is more than 5 times larger than Beehaw, which has dwindled to just 450 monthly users.

we’re not and have never been in this for numbers so this is immaterial to us–we’ve been quite public that we’d be fine having a community of a few dozen people, because that’s what we were before the Reddit fiasco. in any case: please understand that we are not responsible for the health of the Lemmy ecosystem. and even if we were (which we reject categorically) we have definitively been told to leave the platform because of our disagreements with the Lemmy developers. bettering this platform is no longer a priority for us in any way–and it is the general opinion of the team that we wasted a lot of time prioritizing that given the developer antipathy toward us. you can read more on that here if you’d like.

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Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14% (wccftech.com)

‘Last Week Tonight’: Past Seasons Will Be Available for Free on YouTube (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

The Flipbook Experiment (pudding.cool)

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