In this post I am speaking as a Beehaw fanatic and not as an admin. That is why it is placed in the chat community. To be clear, I am not speaking on behalf of the Beehaw admin team nor the community as a whole.
Currently, we have $5,430 that is in our collective purse to be used to further this endeavor. When I take a step back, and look at that amount of money, I am humbled. That is hope…it is an expression of where we want to go and what we want to preserve.
You may be wondering where we are with the testing of alternative platforms and any other considerations.
The testing phase, as far as I can tell, is over. We are, I believe, in a stage of digesting all of it. And, I have a feeling, that we are holding out hope that there could be other options we haven’t encountered yet.
I appreciate the patience of everyone involved and I don’t want to make a hasty decision.
Thankfully, we have had persons such as PenguinCoder to rescue us from the huge Reddit exodus and all the technical problems associated with the Lemmy software platform that we rely on right now.
There have been whispers that PenguinCoder could be working on a new platform for the Beehaw project.
Thank you all for grabbing onto our northern star, be(e) nice, and running with it.
Apologies if this is out of scope and annoying (as I’m not on top of where beehaw is up to with its issues with lemmy’s mod features)
Just saw this 3rd party moderation interface/tool that someone has just started. I’d bet it doesn’t really help any of the issues here, but nonetheless figured it’s an interesting approach to beehaw’s issues, where instead of writing a new platform and ditching federation, writing a moderation interface may be an alternative, though I’d imagine there are things beehaw feels they need that can only be done on the backend.
https://lemmy.tgxn.net/post/152704
Entering in your credentials as an instance admin, mod, or otherwise, into a third party website is an absolute no-go.
From what I gathered it’s a tool you can run yourself alongside your instance.