Comment on are people still all riled up about beehaw?
halm@leminal.space 11 months ago
Rilers gonna get riled. I’ve only seen Beehaw mentioned recently as a nice, drama-free space.
Some people in this thread say Beehaw defederated almost or entirely from the rest of the threading/fediverse; just a glimpse of their instance federation and block lists show that isn’t the case. If you or your instance has been blocked by one that pretty much only requires users to be nice — I think that warrants some introspection on your part rather than dismissing them.
I’m completely for social sites that set an ettiquette standard and stick to it. And I’m getting too old for bored teenagers’ edgelord hot takes, so in principle I should probably be in the target group for Beehaw.
That said, looking through the recent local posts on the instance… it doesn’t look terribly interesting either. Not that I look for aggravation or confrontation in a forum, but I guess the people who sign up for a “nice” one, in this case at least, are fairly normie, and don’t have much interesting to say?
wahming@monyet.cc 11 months ago
Meh. Their admins are human like any other. One of their main subs banned me for saying that as an Asian, I didn’t have any opinion or strong feelings on the holocaust.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 11 months ago
You don’t have strong feelings about millions of people dying?
That’s got nothing to do with your race. That’s just really shit.
wahming@monyet.cc 11 months ago
I don’t have any strong feelings or opinions about the holocaust in particular, as opposed to any of the other multiple genocides and atrocities humanity has committed over the ages, or even just the assorted hundreds of millions of deaths from war, famine, disease, etc. They all suck, but I see no reason to get more emotional about one specific event than any of the others.
I get that it’s especially sensitive for many people because they feel connected to the event via personal, family or national ties. None of those apply to me. How strongly do YOU feel about the Crusades, which were very much an attempted genocide?
Lmaydev@programming.dev 11 months ago
The crusades were atrocities in my opinion. Straight up racism made manifest under the guise of religion.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
If someone is of Asian decent from any country Japan invaded, their ancestors experienced equally bad atrocities that are largely ignored by the global community.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 11 months ago
Yeah but I wouldn’t say I have no opinion about them. It’s super fucked up and horrifying.