I'm a mod of a moderately sized subreddit (~15k) with lots of people who use Reddit only to interact with that community. We've been trying to disseminate information about our official Lemmy, Kbin and Raddle alternatives, but adoption has been slow to nonexistent. So I'm probably going to stick around in both, if for no other reason that to moderate said subreddit.

No, it wouldn't. The Beehaw server is located in the United States. External communities aren't retrieved via your machine, but via their server.

Hm, that's definitely not true. Just ask the admins to remove that user and let you try again.

They explicitly told me in Matrix to not write that, so I just wrote two paragraphs summarizing the two posts they linked in the application guide.

It's interesting that you added serifs and monospacing to a sans serif font. It's almost like comic sans but with all the things that make it comic sans removed.

I literally cannot browse the web anymore without HoverZoom+

Mlem for iOS already has this

Have you ever considered forking the Lemmy repo and building your own software to both maintain interoperability with ActivityPub, but also to be able to better fulfill the features and goals that are specific to the Beehaw philosophy?

Well, in software development lingo, a "fork" is essentially making a copy of the original code (in this case the Lemmy software that runs on the server) and modifying it. I would of course presume that one of the goals with such an undertaking would be to preserve interoperability with the rest of the ActivityPub network. There should be no impact to content on the server itself.

Well, with the influx of thousands of new users, it's very much an option in the near future. I also work in healthcare, but have a ton of programming experience. Maybe it could be a cool summer project for me and a bunch of other Beehaw users :)

The way git, the version control software that coordinates individual changes and updates, works, you can basically freely "pull" all updates from the main Lemmy repository as you want, so that shouldn't be an issue.

EDIT: Now that I'm reading your comment again, you seem to suggest some deeper underlying inconsistencies. I don't know about that, but as I said before, interoperability with the rest of the network should be the top priority before any other feature.

None of the Mod posts regarding the Blackout mentioned Lemmy as far as I‘m aware

Rumor has it they banned a lot of mods and communities for encouraging exactly that to their subscribers, so it was considered quite risky.

How do you plan to distribute the available balance? Will all community members get to participate and have a say in non-fundamental budget decisions?

Also, layers like to win cases. This case is un-winnable. The incident is a masterpiece.

That doesn't discourage some of them, especially in high-profile cases like this. Hans Littens and Robert Servatiuses exist everywhere.