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The Fediverse has a Mental Health Problem (scribe.rip)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is a very interesting article about the long-term sustainability of the Fediverse for moderators, administrators, and developers. We've already had two of our lovely Beehaw admins take breaks to take care of themselves as they experience the burnout associated with maintaining a community, and I think for a lot of use we already know how exhausting it can be to take a center stage position in an online community.

Unfortunately, I don't have any great starting points for what to do, but at least talking about it is a start.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

These things all existed long before the Twitter/Reddit issues. But there's no way they could have predicted it would happen.

While i'm sure there are a lot of factors, a big one is probably just nobody could have expected the blowup that occurred. And as much as people have joked/complained that Beehaw was undermanned, the fact of the matter is they probably knew it better than anyone, and they felt it and had to actually deal with it.

No easy answer to the situation, it'll probably just take a lot of time to work itself out.