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We're having some technical difficulties with backups and such. Things should be back to normal sometime later today. Thanks for reaching out and sorry for the crappy Lemmy software that runs this site. We'll, more than likely, be leaving the Lemmy platform in the next several months.

Many people do unfortunately.

I remember hearing Bulls on Parade for the first time. It gave me so much passion and a feeling of wanting to go out on the streets to protest.

Many years has passed and I realized that so many humans have had a variety of experiences in history based on wealth. When you make many attempts to get through Wealth Shown to Scale, then you can begin to process what's really going on here.

It's not easy but it is liberating in the end. Years ago, I accepted to just celebrate and enjoy life the best that I can while sharing that with as many people as possible.

I’ll follow beehaw wherever it goes…

Thank you...that means a lot.

This is addressed in the OP:

As for alternatives we’re seriously considering right now: they’re basically all FOSS; would preserve most aspects of the current experience while giving us less to worry about on the backside of things (and/or lowering the bar for code participation); are pretty much all more mature and feature-rich than Lemmy; and generally seem to avoid the issues we’re talking about at length here. Downsides are varied but the main commonality is lack of federation; entropy in moving; questions of how sustainable they are with our current mod team; and more cosmetic things like customization and modification.

We’re currently investigating the most promising of them in greater depth—but we don’t want to list something and then have to strike it, hence the vagueness.

I appreciate the support. We are doing our due diligence to find a better path for Beehaw. It may not be perfect, in the eyes of every participant, but it will be better.

...what does worry me is whether or not the platform Beehaw migrates to is better maintained than Lemmy.

We will not move from the US civil war (i.e. Lemmy) to world war 3 (i.e. apocalypse).

I'm on board with something like this, yes.

If we chose a non-federated platform to move to, then it is possible to add ActivityPub (i.e. federation stuff) at a later time. However, it would require persons that are skilled enough to do it. In my estimation, this could be several years away if we chose to move to a non-federated platform. IMO, there are too many 'ifs' involved in order to give a more precise answer.

Thank you.

Be(e) nice from now on at Beehaw and enjoy your three day vacation.

I hear you and understand where you are coming from. If I were to dig down into every single product, that I use in my day-to-day existence, then I'd probably find dirt everywhere. I'm not sure what I'd do at that point. Throw the baby out with the bathwater? It's a tough position to be in.