Free and Open Source Software

17931 readers

110 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Gaywallet@beehaw.org

alyaza@beehaw.org

198

The Fediverse has a Mental Health Problem (scribe.rip)

submitted 1 year ago by Cube6392@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

46 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This is a very interesting article about the long-term sustainability of the Fediverse for moderators, administrators, and developers. We've already had two of our lovely Beehaw admins take breaks to take care of themselves as they experience the burnout associated with maintaining a community, and I think for a lot of use we already know how exhausting it can be to take a center stage position in an online community.

Unfortunately, I don't have any great starting points for what to do, but at least talking about it is a start.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Butterbee@beehaw.org 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does the Fediverse have more of a mental health problem than other social media sites? Or is it just more visible and more likely to be hidden away?

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, exactly. Commercial social media sites pay workers in low-wage countries to moderate content. Plenty of stories out there about the toll it takes on them, but it's easy enough for the commercial sites to just keep finding more cheap labor. Fedi is mostly volunteers so it's quite different, and much more visible.