I’m sure people here can empathize with having all the tech wizards get burnt out and leave, and all the various teething problems but this is a bit much… lemmy has its issues but plenty of sites larger and smaller than beehaw are getting on just fine. Perhaps the lib sysadmins are just going back to brunch?

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    i’m not really familiar with the nitty-gritty details of the software, but what could be such a large issue with lemmy that it’s unworkable to run beehaw (700 users/month) while instances several times the size are getting along just fine? skill issue?

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      Beehaw admins have been complaining about the difficulty of modding federated users for a while. I think this is partly a skill issue, partly that they’re federated with some of the worse lib instances we’ve defedded, and also partly that they’ve prohibited dunking but not saying dumb libshit worthy of dunking.

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      In short, they are uncomfortable collaborating with communists on the technical end and lack the expertise / willpower to maintain a fork independently. It is kind of a skill issue, but there is no need to over-glorify the code-monkeys either. A community of 700+ people certainly has people among its ranks with the skills to do this work. What it lacks is the motivation. Nobody sees it as a calling. Nobody sees it as urgent or necessary work.