[lolinder]

Beehaw became a hub for the exodus largely through a misunderstanding—they were already active when Lemmy exploded, so a lot of the exiles found their way into their communities, but Beehaw's culture is in a lot of respects incompatible with Reddit's. It was only a matter of time before they decided preserving their community was more important than sheltering all of Reddit's exiles.

I highly recommend reading Beehaw's history that they link from their sidebar. It helped me better understand the value proposition of the fediverse, and goes a long way towards explaining their perspective on the necessity of defederating the large instances:

https://beehaw.org/post/107014

[camdenlock]

I read it. It’s bizarre. They’re so convinced of their preferred ideology that they refer to indoctrination as simply “becoming a better person”.

One doesn’t come across such intense blindness of self like that very often. Steer clear.

[BasedAnon]

The whole point of an ideology is to give you a way to view the world. If you didn't believe it was better than other ideologies there would be no point in that ideology. It's not self-blindness to believe in what you claim to (although that's not to say I believe what they believe).

[Jcowell]

> The whole point of an ideology is to give you a way to view the world. If you didn't believe it was better than other ideologies there would be no point in that ideology.

I don’t see why these two are intertwined. You can believe in a certain idea while at the same time be open that it can be flawed or outright wrong. The point of an ideology is that something could be true. Not that something is.

But maybe this is the agnostic bias in me talking.

[BasedAnon]

All that means is that you have an ideology that's further up the chain that makes you strongly oppose anyone making strong value statements, except for that people should always be open to other things as long as they don't contradict you in this principle.

[lost_tourist]

One isn't improved by a wave of redditors calling you cucks/commies/soy bois/touch grass. I think beehaw has a stated purpose and if they want to defederate, they should. No system is going to be perfect.

[Cthulhu_]

> Over time this platform, like many others before it, got infested with a group of people I like to refer to as rationalists.

I'm reading another instance of "eternal september" in this post.