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What is the current thinking about what platform Beehaw should be on? Stick with Lemmy or try something else? (beehaw.org)

submitted 11 months ago by hedge@beehaw.org to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

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[–] comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 0 points 11 months ago

I feel similarly, although I left reddit initially (this was before the API changes) because of its own brand of cynicism, which I found was almost inescapable, even in small subs or posts which shouldn't have ridiculous arguments.

The problem is that, while initially this instance didn't have much of it, it's reaching a similar point.

I think that the people who will migrate with Beehaw are more likely to be the ones who want to get away from that shit, though. (I've also noticed that a lot, but definitely not all, of the more toxic comments seem to be from users on other instances.)

Best we can do here is block communities (it's been a lot more pleasant for me since I blocked the news communities here), but it doesn't solve everything.

I'm finding some old school forums on a couple of my private trackers to be a lot better at times, honestly. (Lol, one of them even completely removed their "Serious Discussion" subforum after Jan 6 and banned political discussion entirely because it resulted in too much toxic bullshit.)