I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if this comes down to Elon having fired the entirety of the Twitter payments team.

It’s great to hear from the mod team. I understand Beehaw as being a place that values respect, trust and discussion in good faith. I’d sum it up as “good vibes”. I made note of a comment somewhere on here that I gauged as primarily intending to rile up OP (effectively “what is the point of this post”). Not a horrendous comment by any means, but I’d classify it as being “not nice”.

Using Beehaw instead of other instances comes at the cost of missing out on places like lemmy.world, although they can certainly be used in parallel. In my view, the gain of being here is respectful conversation. I accept that some emotional volatility is to be expected when politics or the like are being discussed. Are users ever given a gentle nudge to “be(e) a little bit nicer next time”?

Thanks for the transparency. There’s a big appetite for this sort of platform, so I hope you’re able to lean on other volunteers to avoid overloading yourselves.

Thank you for your hard work, and thanks to the donators for making this possible!

Apologies if this has been asked elsewhere, I haven’t seen it: How are the core team compensated for their work on the platform? I appreciate that it’s a passion project, but I’m sure y’all have bills to pay.