can't speak much now, site is in five-alarm fire mode for obvious reasons. things are going good though, thank you for using the site, hopefully this week will chill a bit
I'm so exhausted from last week, just finally recovering from a sickness that felt endless. But I'm starting off this week with a lot of 'spring cleaning,' and I'm going to treat myself later to a nice meal if all goes well. Really enjoying the switch from Dendron to Logseq for my personal knowledge management system.
Hang in there! Y'all have done a great job with the site so far, and hopefully everything will calm down soon. 💛
The Community Toolbox is a resource provided by the Center for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas, and I’ve referenced them from time to time in my college organizing work. It has a strong focus on non-profits, but there’s still a lot of stuff that I think is really pertinent to community organizing...
If you do decide to open a PbP instance, I'd love to join - I've been trying to get back into roleplaying but the site I used to frequent is so dead, sadly.
Just a working list - feel free to add to it. I realize that some of these might already exist, and I just missed them. Here's what I've got so far:...
At first I read "would not like to see replicated" and I almost got upset, haha.
For me:
Fountain pens
Communities for different countries/regions or different language-speakers - on Reddit, I often lurked /r/de, /r/Philippines, etc.
Mechanical keyboards
Woodworking
Oddly satisfying
Star Trek
Battlestations
I definitely second BIFL, Antiwork, and different communities for U.S. states, as I don't often get to connect with other people from Texas on the Fediverse.
We have a Discord but it’s private for the time being, I’m sure it will return to the front page sidebar as soon as things settle more with the instance itself.
I agree - I would probably recommend even using archive.ph or the Wayback Machine to archive/permalink anything like top posts, if they're really important. Copying all of the contents of a subreddit to a Lemmy instance just seems like overkill.
Personally, I don't think replacement should be the goal. As others have said, a better, more likely outcome is that the Fediverse become a viable alternative to big social media (in the eyes of the public) & an influential part of the ecosystem.
And anyways, the Fediverse is a solution for me - and others, presumably - but it probably won't be the solution for social media influencers, terminally online political provocateurs, people stuck in the endless, algorithmic (and psychologically manipulative) stream of 'content' which Big Social offers, advertisers, etc. As long as people have those sorts of relationships to social media and as long as capitalism and consumerism exist, big social media platforms will always be around to capitalize on that and fill that niche.
Plus, the barrier to entry for the Fediverse is technical skill, which has impeded its accessibility to the broader public. While making the Fediverse more accessible and cultivating that technical skill and know-how in the public are both things I support, I appreciate the more intentional social media communities which are forming around here and are able to grow sustainably quite possibly because it's harder for the average person to wrap their head around. It reminds me a lot of the older days of the internet.
The best thing for that, IMO, is for the Fediverse to continually exist in its decentralized state and provide unique examples of how social media could be, for it to keep growing slowly, for average people to come here of their own volition, see how things are here, and decide on their own that they want to be part of it.
Writing can take many forms now a days. Some prefer pen and paper and others prefer word processors. I am curious what !writing uses for their own writing....
I mostly use VS Code with Dendron to organize notes and ideas, OneNote for worldbuilding. I like to try different things though, like today I'm going to check out yWrite.
Sometimes, I'll write in my journal with a fountain pen (right now Lamy Safari + Diamine Jet Black) to capture quick ideas or make small drafts, especially if I'm on the go or if my eyes need a break from the screen.
hey folks, as you may have noticed we have a lot of new users and a lot of new activity, and with Reddit's... interesting decisionmaking in the past 14 days we're not expecting that to ebb. however, we're currently just 4 people + some very helpful volunteers, and we can't have eyes on everything. so, we're taking mod...
I've caught it in the act sometimes - it seems to happen only when the mods make a post while drafting a comment in a community, and it might also have something to do with pinning posts.
Its maybe a silly question, but I've started a personal blog and I'm really enjoying writing posts for it. Does blog writing fall under the definition of writing for this community?
To me, yes. Of course, blogs vary in format from microblogging to captioned image galleries to diaries to long-form opinion pieces, but I've found that the larger landscape of writing can be similarly broad and all-encompassing.
I think the most critical thing for this community would be that you're posting your own original work, and not someone else's.
Hey everyone, I'm posting this rather informally because I don't think it's necessarily a problem in need of addressing at this point, but more a synthesis of what I've seen on the internet before and what's in the back of my head as I'm watching these wonderful conversations going on across Beehaw....
I appreciate you for posting this - I just read your post and the post you linked. I mainly want to concur with what's been expressed so far, but I also have some personal reflections to share from things I've experienced.
One really solid strategy I've noticed this community employ to keep the jerk-o-meter down is simply frequently having critical discussions about behavior and user culture. You and the other stewards of this community for holding space for these discussions goes very far; to begin with, it's difficult to get even a small community to reach a consensus on moderation if conversations like this rarely, or never, take place. Having that consensus is crucial to building a cohesive culture, especially doing it in a way which is inclusive. I think a lot of people who try to build communities, including online, erroneously believe that a healthy community is one where there is no arguing, but really, without dialogues like these, it's so much easier to disagree on, or forget, what the standard of acceptable behavior even is. We have to keep talking about complex problems in our community together and hashing out our differences constructively - controversy with civility, calling people in, recognizing positive behaviors - if we want to build an inclusive culture and have a sustainable, welcoming online community. Publicly discussing our behavioral standards and our community values (and, thus, arriving at a better collective understanding of what those are) definitely helps a lot.
Not itemizing specific rulebreaking behavior I think can work with a cohesive instance culture. I think that is a good move. [...] Itemizing rules can lead to ruleslawyer minded people finding things to do which are against the spirit of the rules but not the letter.[link]
Here in particular, I think the mods have been really helpful. Keeping the list of rules limited and broad, but also emphasizing positive examples of behavior rather than simply focusing on the "do-not" rules, has shaped the instance culture in a mostly positive way. Like you said, it's important that we be mindful in our discourse, "so as not to alienate people who are tolerant but do not share the same characteristics be it political leaning, gender, hobbies, or anything else" - this is even more important than remembering not to be a jerk. It goes a long way that users on Beehaw are strongly focused on being inclusive in an online setting to foster the kind of community we want, rather than only worrying about how to deal with the jerks. Overall, I'd like for people here to continue practicing perspective-taking, not only when it comes to how our words might be received from a marginalized perspective but also when it comes to the effects our language may have on people whom we have other differences with (opinions, political leanings, etc.) but who are generally nice.
This is turning into a bit of a confused ramble, but that's all I really had to say.
a few of you have already noticed these and dutifully begun using them, but we have five new communities based on feedback, activity of existing communities, and our assessment of the utility of such a community....
Could a POC community be a possibility? I don't know if there's the moderation capacity for it, but it would be nice to have dedicated space to talk about POC experiences specifically, similar to existing communities on Reddit and the race/ethnicity-based Guppe groups in the federated microblogging sphere.
to start: we're going to start staggering when we approve people a little more--at this point, we've literally doubled our existing userbase. registrations today will be processed at a much slower pace while we talk over how much further we want to let things go, and at what pace we want to continue letting people in so things...
hello! i'm excited to participate in this community and i'm looking forward to seeing how it grows. to briefly introduce myself, IRL i'm an engineering student and community activist, online i'm a writer and game developer. i speak Cebuano, English, Tagalog, and German.
i'm also on tech.lgbt (mastodon) as well if anyone wants to connect there. :)
i appreciate the community-focused perspective and the restorative justice approach to accountability that Beehaw has. i discovered this through the main lemmy site and was instantly sold. one question i have is - and sorry if what i'm asking isn't entirely coherent, but - how does Beehaw's governance work? is that enumerated somewhere? most social media communities are semi- or fully authoritarian, and while Beehaw seems to differ, i'm just curious if there's some kind of document or ongoing community discussion about how Beehaw is run.
Stop Doing Discord (beehaw.org)
Repost from @technomancy...
how’s your week going, Beehaw
can't speak much now, site is in five-alarm fire mode for obvious reasons. things are going good though, thank you for using the site, hopefully this week will chill a bit
University of Kansas: Community Toolbox (ctb.ku.edu)
The Community Toolbox is a resource provided by the Center for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas, and I’ve referenced them from time to time in my college organizing work. It has a strong focus on non-profits, but there’s still a lot of stuff that I think is really pertinent to community organizing...
Beehawers of Color: introduce yourselves!
Welcome to /c/poc@beehaw.org!...
What subreddits would you like to see replicated on the Fediverse?
Just a working list - feel free to add to it. I realize that some of these might already exist, and I just missed them. Here's what I've got so far:...
[Meta] Since Lemmy allows linking URLs and text together, we should make it a common etiquette to write the tldr or main point of the article in the post
With a fresh new start we have the power to enforce some unspoken etiquettes on the site in the hopes of a better platform than Reddit....
another beehaw introduction thread
if you haven't introduced yourself already, please feel free to do so
How can we backup all posts from a community in the old place (/r/quebec for instance) and copy all posts and comments to the new place (/c/quebec) ?
I think we need to do this for all subreddits before the API gets shut down
do you think the fediverse could replace popular social media
At the moment the internet is flawed, do you think the fediverse is the solution?
Facebook owner to push ahead with plans to launch Twitter rival (www.theguardian.com)
The app, code-named Project93, will reportedly be named Threads and integrate with ActivityPub.
Preferred writing medium
Writing can take many forms now a days. Some prefer pen and paper and others prefer word processors. I am curious what !writing uses for their own writing....
What kind of weekly/monthly threads would you want to see on !writing?
For example, /r/writing has weekly critique and check-in threads, and /r/writingprompts does a theme-based writing contest every Thursday....
Beehaw is looking for community moderators
hey folks, as you may have noticed we have a lot of new users and a lot of new activity, and with Reddit's... interesting decisionmaking in the past 14 days we're not expecting that to ebb. however, we're currently just 4 people + some very helpful volunteers, and we can't have eyes on everything. so, we're taking mod...
Apollo for Reddit is shutting down (www.theverge.com)
whelp, there it is
Do blogs count as writing?
Its maybe a silly question, but I've started a personal blog and I'm really enjoying writing posts for it. Does blog writing fall under the definition of writing for this community?
Some general thoughts on be(e)havior
Hey everyone, I'm posting this rather informally because I don't think it's necessarily a problem in need of addressing at this point, but more a synthesis of what I've seen on the internet before and what's in the back of my head as I'm watching these wonderful conversations going on across Beehaw....
Self-Effacing, a poem
i was born beneath the rocks of a single-minded destiny: cutting cords....
five more new Beehaw communities!
a few of you have already noticed these and dutifully begun using them, but we have five new communities based on feedback, activity of existing communities, and our assessment of the utility of such a community....
welcome, influx of new users, to Beehaw!
to start: we're going to start staggering when we approve people a little more--at this point, we've literally doubled our existing userbase. registrations today will be processed at a much slower pace while we talk over how much further we want to let things go, and at what pace we want to continue letting people in so things...