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

submitted 1 year ago by Cube6392@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The pandemic just exposed the lie that in the worst case, the government, or your job, or someone in power, would help you.

There's not really much "going back" from that realization, especially when we can literally find news articles every day about how another politician is campaigning against us for one thing or another.

Today, for instance, I discovered that Arkansas had passed a law to make it possible to criminally charge librarians if they lend out the "wrong" books to people!