Hi everyone,
We are writing to address a recent incident of harassment that occurred within our community.
We are disturbed to learn that someone experienced harassment after stepping down from their volunteer position, we ask anyone doing this to stop immediately. This serves as a stark reminder that we do not tolerate any form of harassment.
We believe in the inherent worth and dignity of every individual, and it is our responsibility to ensure that everyone feels respected within our community.
If you witness or experience harassment, we urge you to contact us immediately. Your voice matters, and together, we can make a difference. We are here to support you and address any concerns or incidents that may arise.
Lionir, posted with the agreement of the Beehaw admins
A news article exposing illegal, illicit, or otherwise not nice behavior will not be removed just because someone doesn’t like it. That is not harassment.
Apparently if you call attention to someone else’s post and comment in any way that the original user feels is unflattering, that could be considered “harassment” by Reddit admins.
Basically if someone promotes a crypto scheme, and we say it’s a ponzi (and are prepared to back it up with evidence), that’s “harassment” and we get sanctioned.
We are not Reddit nor do we intend to be.
Thank goodness!
Everybody says that. Google said, “We won’t be evil.”
When Twitter started to go downhill, I left for Mastodon. I went into one of the larger communities that was focused on artists and engineers and creatives and had all these glorious rules about “respect.” I suddenly found my account crippled. With no notice. I had not violated any rules. What happened was the admin of the server was into cryptocurrency, saw that I was skeptical of crypto, and disabled my account and refused to do anything about it. This is a problem I’ve run into with Federated systems.
What would be your suggestion to hold us accountable to our ethos?
We understand the skepticism and hold a similar viewpoint towards a lot of what’s on the internet. We’re explicitly not inviting capital to avoid making any tradeoffs or compromising the vision which capitalistic endeavors cannot by their very nature, do. But ultimately we also recognize that we’re asking for a certain level of trust from our users - if you have suggestions on how to build or solidify that trust we’d love to hear it.
There’ll probably be an instance you can call home, with an admin who will not discriminate. You can even host one yourself, at home, if you want to.
That’s a problem with weird mods banning people on their subreddits too, though.
Edit: there will always be shitheads but at least this way we’re dealing only with small groups and individuals instead of an unfightable megacorp.