Frankly wonderful. It needs scale, though not as much as people think. If the people that have moved stay involved we probably have scale for a lot of things now.

In terms of Beehaw, like it very much. Like the relative lack of Trolls too, and lack of ads, and presumably lack of behind the scenes content selection that other platform presumably does. The issue outstanding of course is the defederation with a few major instances which needs to be resolved somehow over time. For now fine. I to worry about how the Behaw team supports the site at scale be it man power or money. So I hope everyone considers that and does what they can.

I frankly come from the Mailing List, Usenet, and Compuserve days and frankly Lemmy meets the grade except maybe in some more technical areas like Law, Medicine, and Taxes. The FIRE community is small or non-existant, but this is really just Financial so we do have a community. Yes I came from Reddit, but I have used many Forum platforms before and sometimes still do. Lemmy and Behaw seems great.

Where Lemmy is a little short is a few bugs. The web UI is best, but it too has some bugs. Jarboa was not even complete when this torrent started but now it looks fairly complete but the latest update crashes a lot and still has some annoying bugs like setting the default view which use to work fine. I trust all of these will vanish with time so they do not hinder my resolve to stay here as long as we have enough scale. Sorry I cannot help with these other then put in bug reports if they persist. I do program and know Linux well, but the tech you guys use is not what I know which means it would take me 6 months or a year to do anything useful.

Anyway. All the best to everyone. Very appreciative. For what it is worth, I did drop a little in the tip jar to help with the presumably larger costs, and otherwise try not to bother the admins. They have kind of an impossible and under appreciated job.