Oooh yeah I forgot. I thought about joining beehaw way back but for me they went a little too far on the controlling end of the free speech spectrum. They came off as kinda joyless to me (I read a book recently {algospeak} that actually discusses the way censorship can make it difficult for marginalized communities to joke about or even just meaningfully discuss their lived experiences).
I’m also not completely opposed to interacting with world (as opposed to say hexbear) but I’ll also avoid posting on their comms if there’s a similarly sized one elsewhere. and ml I avoid the comms if I notice but I’ll usually interact with the users. I’m not perfect about any of this but I think defeds should be a pretty serious thing overall and beehaw seems to do it every time another instance sneezes.
Oooh yeah I forgot. I thought about joining beehaw way back but for me they went a little too far on the controlling end of the free speech spectrum. They came off as kinda joyless to me (I read a book recently {algospeak} that actually discusses the way censorship can make it difficult for marginalized communities to joke about or even just meaningfully discuss their lived experiences).
I’m also not completely opposed to interacting with world (as opposed to say hexbear) but I’ll also avoid posting on their comms if there’s a similarly sized one elsewhere. and ml I avoid the comms if I notice but I’ll usually interact with the users. I’m not perfect about any of this but I think defeds should be a pretty serious thing overall and beehaw seems to do it every time another instance sneezes.