A few days ago, Beehaw posted an announcement in their Chat community about the challenges of content moderation and the possibility of leaving Lemmy. That post was eventually locked.

Then, about two days ago, Beehaw posted an announcement in their support community that they aren’t confident about the long-term use of Lemmy, due to so-called concerns about Lemmy.

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  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    If lemmy has effectively said “go dev it” why hasn’t beehaw paid developers to handle the requests?

    Because Beehaw is evaluating whether doing so is a good idea or not, and a lot of that goes into whether Beehaw believes that Lemmy is a platform that can continue to fit its needs. So Beehaw is evaluating several options:

    • Fund development within the Lemmy ecosystem.
    • Fork Lemmy to get full control over development and fund the fork.
    • Design and build a new platform from scratch.
    • Do nothing.

    Based on what was written, Beehaw admins seem to be leaning towards option 3 given the current quality of the existing code and lack of confidence in Lemmy devs.

    And this kind of high level concept development is typical of organizations when choosing to spend money. It isn’t just a choice between spending money to fund development or not.

    • toasteecup@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I appreciate the breakdown.

      Definitely helps to contextualize things a bit but I’m still left wondering if option 3 actually helps drive beehaw’s end goal.

      The way I first read it suggested to me that they were going to code something from scratch which I’d argue takes time away from building a community.

      But rereading it, you might be meaning building something from new on a different tech stack. Which would make much more sense.

    • Auli@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Does Beehaw have the experience and money needed to develop a new platform?