No problem!
At least for the moment, if we really want to help as users, I think it's best to be patient and save our requests for when it's more appropriate. It doesn't have to be months, just a week or two, I bet things will calm down by then.
I too would love to see more specific communities eventually.
I understand your frustrations. This post got buried under so many others here on the Beehaw Support community, but it will better explain from an admin what is going on: https://beehaw.org/post/507164
They will certainly add a community for your needs, but it's important that we give them a bit of time to breathe.
This makes me feel like a carriage horse, and I'm not even a professional programmer.
I also liked it! It was very much what one would expect of a social network for nerds.
In the past few days, the admins have made posts about the influx of people and the goal of Beehaw. A lot of people come with a lot of suggestions for communities, and they don't feel it's necessary to stretch the communities so thin. Communities in this instance are only created by the admins when they feel it's needed (aka enough people will participate).
It's best to use the communities that already exist and if they get overwhelmed by one sub-topic, they will see that it's best to create a community for it.
As far as I'm aware, the community [email protected] might be a fit for this topic. At least for now.
As it's been said before, I think the good thing about the fediverse is that in the worst case scenario where an entire instance is irrational despite all the evidence in the modlog, people can just up and leave the instance and recreate the community on another server.
It's frustrating and annoying, but if it affects enough people it will be noticed. Beehaw, for example, defeds plenty of other instances where the rhetoric is toxic.
I do think it's important to make the distinction between admins and mods, though. If a non-admin mod is causing trouble, the first step is to contact an instance's admins to see if it's something they were too busy to notice. If they are like the troublesome mod, then you can think of packing up and moving elsewhere.
Thanks, I'll look into them. The one I mentioned is outdated/abandoned, afaik.
Haven't you noticed the amount of bots stealing comments and reposting them elsewhere in a post?
It's one of the reasons I had been trying to leave reddit for months. You never knew if a bot was replying to you.
Thanks a lot! You're right, backing up with MarkDown is much better.
You just reminded me of an old software I used to use, called WikidPad. It had some sort of MarkDown and it was FOSS. It was great for making portable/offline wikis.
Once everyone is in there and comfy, they'd be like, "aight, we decided to close it because we're Google".
I've been using this method for days now. It's really good.
Howbee, padner! 🐝
(For some reason I can't reply directly to @[email protected] )