Let’s not beat around the bush, or indulge in unnecessary drama: I’m moving to another instance and Patient Gamers needs a new main mod.
Even though I’ve neglected it (the initial plan was to play things by ear for a few days, and accordingly give shape to the place afterwards), this community has attracted a good number of subscribers, it has potential if put in good hands. Hence why I’d rather give the keys to someone else than close, or abandon, it at the same time as my account.
Edit: I appreciate those mentioning that I could mod from another account, but I have no desire to remain involved with this instance in any way.
Edit2: V0.18 is here; time for a coin toss!
In short, it results from the recent drama about defederating exploding-heads, an alt-right instance. Some say that we should expose ourselves to diverse opinions, and I don’t see any such value in disinformation and hatred.
Those people seem to have won that case, or are numerous enough to prevent an absolute majority decision, and a few of them are set to become moderators of The Agora, our place to discuss and vote on sh.itjust.works related issues.
Yikes. Suddenly I’m more understanding of beehaw defederating from sh.itjust.works.
Beehaw has plans to refederate with us, the problem was the open sign up policy, not who sh.itjust.works federated with.
More specifically, it was worried about moderation, and the signup policy was their preferred way to handle that. If moderation tools get better, then the signup policy could be relaxed on their end.
Even so, I just unsubbed from communities over there and found others to scratch the same itch. So whatever floats their boat I guess.
I don’t really understand OP’s choice, but it’s theirs to make, not mine. I personally just sub to communities I’m interested in and ignore the rest, and that seems to work pretty well.
This is unrelated and we are going to face a similar decision to beehaw’s soon as well (or we already are, considering I saw at least one post about it)
As someone who can only get online sporadically, thank you for this update on the state of affairs … I hedges my bets a bit with logins here and Beehaw, but so far this site does appear to be vulnerable to negative posters to me too!
Maybe I’ll see you there :-)