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

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[–] Rentlar@beehaw.org 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From the article:

If you want a certain feature, or are waiting for the release of a new version of the software you use, or have a bug: I urge you to please be patient with the developers. There’s an enormous amount of work to do, and every project is understaffed and strained for finances at the moment.

Please please please be nice to people that are taking their own time and mental energy from their own lives without material compensation to give you something cool to enjoy.

I get things can be frustrating when something needs fixing, but people that contribute here are mostly overworked and underfunded.

And those that are helping out but feeling overworked, do take breaks regularly before you get permanently burnt out on it. That should be normalized, it goes for Beehaw admins and other Fediverse admins mods and contributors as well.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Please please please be nice to people that are taking their own time and mental energy from their own lives without material compensation to give you something cool to enjoy.

Not only that, sign up to donate to their Patreons. I give a buck a month to my mastodon instance and my two lemmy instances.