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Refederating with the world? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm just curious if it is on the table at some point. I only see a small slice of beehaw when I'm logged in but the active participation feels like it is on a downward trend. Like, there appears to be ~700 on here right now. I know numbers aren't everything, but overall engagement is important. I'm on several instances with different accounts. I've been gravitating towards my .world account because it is so active. I get a grouchy or rude reply still from time to time, but it seems like most of the trolls have gone or been removed. That instance seems to be maturing fast and growing some personality all its own. The server seems constantly stressed, but Ruud is holding it together. The moderation seems much more in check now too. That's just my perspective. I'd like to see everyone come together again, but I am just one user.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You're expressing one of the most frequent frustrations people bring up with the federated model.

To my mind, it's a matter of individual user expectations. There are a lot of people for whom centralized social media became "the internet," and the idea that websites were ever intended for anything but passive external linking to individual pages is foreign. This is not a universally shared starting point.

I have a .world account for my local community and, at this point, all non-Beehaw fediverse stuff. I'm still on a few message-board sites for niche topics that Reddit's generalization made difficult to get useful information about among the detritus.

Beehaw and .world serve different needs, so I view having multiple Lemmy accounts as being as reasonable as having a different login for my natural gas company than my electricity supplier.