Hello world! A long time ago I used to play a game called EVE Online. There are silly little creatures called Fedo there. So when joining the Fediverse, I made a bit of a pun.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • One thought that’s already occurred is more dedicated efforts to grow communities that are useful to minority individuals or may attract them to use this site.

    That sounds like a great idea, although not without its challenges (as an example, finding people both from those groups, and also willing to invest time into the community as leaders/mods). It would be very hard to found a community like that without finding someone who closely knows what that community needs and what would draw the group to a given social media platform; but if the process was done right their participation would certainly be a big draw for the site!


  • [edit: on re-reading, the sentence that followed it that said “I think there’s outreach to be done” is clear, even if I think the words could have been ordered better for flow, and connect this more directly and closely to the “unfortunate” comment.]

    The charitable interpretation of it is that we need to be intentionally welcome and aware of POC in the community

    Yeah, I think as written it implies too much to be interpreted unambiguously. I agree, the charitable interpretation is “we need to do more” but that’s an inference that is drawn from my pre-existing understanding of beehaw’s management and vision, and maybe a sprinkling of trust in their intentions.

    Without explicitly stating “unfortunately we failed to reach minority communities,” my feeling is that it leaves a lot of room for accusation of other parties for the “unfortunateness” of the situation or misreading of future intent, and personally I think that just leads to unclear communication.