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A brief note on lost posts in c/support@beehaw.org

[-] dawt@beehaw.org 7 points 8 months ago

Yeah... Other lemmy instances just don't cut it for me. Beehaw definitely has a quality difference.

Beehaw on Lemmy: The long-term conundrum of staying here in c/support@beehaw.org

[-] dawt@beehaw.org 36 points 8 months ago

The biggest tragedy of moving off Lemmy for me is that I love having Sync to browse Beehaw from my phone. I'm a mobile user and I really like having a native app to enjoy a community like this. 😭

The Beehaw project is entering some significant challenges in c/chat@beehaw.org

[-] dawt@beehaw.org 13 points 8 months ago

Thank you for being upfront and honest about the challenges you're facing. I'd like to also put my vote in for going whitelist only rather than moving off the fediverse altogether. However, I'm a big fan of beehaw and would likely follow a migration, but only if there's a good mobile experience on the new site.

Are there any home ice cream makers here? in c/food@beehaw.org

[-] dawt@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

Yooo that last one sounds amazing. Right up my alley.

Are there any home ice cream makers here? in c/food@beehaw.org

[-] dawt@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago

I am not, but I appreciated Brian David Gilbert's video on this! What recipes have you made lately?

https://youtu.be/tjmzfOUOw08?si=UBHWAZCOfN6vwMxK

Edible Insects: In Europe, a Growing Push for Bug-Based Food in c/food@beehaw.org

[-] dawt@beehaw.org 9 points 8 months ago

I have found that practical solutions are rarely all or nothing, personally.

Are you against eating meat from a consequentialist perspective, or a deontological one? In my opinion, less meat eaten is better - better for the environment, and less money going into cruel practices around slaughtering animals, etc - even if the reasons for it are varied and not strictly from a standard of moral duty.

Good Morning, Smoke in c/photography@lemmy.ml

[-] dawt@beehaw.org 8 points 9 months ago

The smoke is so awful to live through, but I do love this photo. It reminds me of traditional Chinese landscape watercolor paintings.

Does BioWare now regret erasing their community forums? in c/gaming@beehaw.org

[-] dawt@beehaw.org 0 points 11 months ago

I don't have much of an opinion on the bioware forums, but man - it's crazy to think about this period as the collapse of web2. I mean, I'm aware of it, but somehow, giving it that title seems so real.

The online spaces I've spent most of my time in are collapsing, and all that'll be left is the shambling, soulless husks of bankrupt cryptocurrencies. I guess we can just go ahead and skip straight to web4?

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Alright Beehaw, try to sell me on your favorite album (beehaw.org)

submitted 11 months ago by dawt@beehaw.org to c/music@beehaw.org

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I'm going to listen to the top 3 upvoted albums and give you my honest unfiltered thoughts.

Please explain what makes the album special to you. For context, lyrics are very important to me, so I gravitate to music with good storytelling.

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On "just creating your own instance" - a reflection on Lemmy's drawbacks (beehaw.org)

submitted 11 months ago by dawt@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

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I'm new to the Fediverse, but I've been primarily using it to try and wean myself off a decade+ long reddit addiction.

Something I've been thinking about a lot is how people on Lemmy seem to have a misconception about how difficult it is to administer and moderate these platforms. I've read a lot of people talking about how the ability to host your own Lemmy instance gives you the experience of Reddit, but without needing to worry about mods or admins. They are quick to talk about how easy it is to move on from an instance, saying things like "just create your own instance and move on."

I think it's true as a lurker that migrating instances is easy and low investment. But losing all the content and community is a huge price to pay. Yes, it's relatively simple to set up an instance, but the difficult thing is keeping it up despite prices and wild fluctuations in users.

The owner of the nsfw Lemmy instance, for example, already has thrown in the towel this week, just two weeks after opening a relatively successful instance. He gave up moderating, but couldn't get anyone else to take over hosting the instance. So he is now stuck with that. Honestly, I would be surprised to see that instance sticking around in the same form for much longer.

My point is simply that stewarding a community takes a massive amount of time, effort and money on behalf of those hosting and moderating. It takes a lot of trust for people to feel safe investing the time and energy to put down roots. It requires content creators and good engagement.

I've chosen Beehaw as my home instance because I find that the admin's mission and commitment to stewarding a specific culture to have the best chance of building a worthwhile community.

So thank you to the admins for your work, and I look forward to my time here with you all. Let's create a culture worth fighting for - one that we wouldn't want to leave and move on from at the first sign of drama.

Reminder to plan out your finished product sizes thoroughly. My WIP Mareep has gotten wildly out of hand. She will be the master of this home. in c/creative@beehaw.org

[-] dawt@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Omg. I'm so excited to see the finished product. How big will be this mareep end up being?

Knit animation. 80 drawn portraits 40 knit frames. 30 feet of knitting! in c/creative@beehaw.org

[-] dawt@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

I am truly floored by this. I think all of us animators are masochists to an extent, but you must be on another level. Great work.

As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal in c/technology@lemmy.ml

[-] dawt@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, I'd rather have a thread with a dozen high quality comments than hundreds of bot reposts/low quality buzzwords. I do hope that Lemmy sustains enough activity to have those nice, small conversations though.

WIP Wednesday! What are you working on? [Week of Jun 21st] in c/creative@beehaw.org

[-] dawt@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Awesome! Would love to see updates on this one as you move progress!