• CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    The second factor is the Beehaw admins have multiple huge posts about building a community. With the lack of concrete rules and the huge change defederation causes, it would have been more in line with their ethos to put up a poll for users or discussion thread before defederating to get community input.

    Is there an easy way to poll people in an instance on Lemmy?

    Finally in the post regarding the defederation, anybody who voiced opposition or even skepticism of defederation was painted as part of the problem. A pattern with Beehaw admins I’ve noticed is that when people ask specifics on how they will apply being nice and post examples of contentious arguments that might happen, the admins say that even asking the question is a “self report” sign of not being a suitable member of the community.

    I missed that part

    • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Poll or discussion. If a poll isn’t technically feasible, a discussion certainly is.

      Regarding the pattern, that happened in previous pinned posts by them where some people were trying to figure out what the limits of discussion were since it was noted political and other contentious topics were being hosted, which seems to conflict with the idea of a “nice” community. Rather than give some answer or framework on what the edges of opinions that are acceptable the person asked was told they were “self reporting”.