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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 10th, 2023
  • Silvally@beehaw.orgtoChat@beehaw.org•informal PSA: i am (and have been) on indefinite breakEnglish
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    1 year ago

    all while having hundreds of people make contradictory suggestions to me i have to make sense of, balance, and generally hear nonstop while being expected to act like a service worker

    I believe you have already touched on this in previous PSAs but it’s important that everyone here holds Beehaw to a different standard to, say, the traditional social media we have gotten used to over the last decade.

    I hold platforms like Twitter to a higher standard because they have hundreds of people who they are paying to run the website, are actively making a profit from it, and it is centralised. I am a lot more vocal about the criticisms I have about the way that site is being run.

    However, with Beehaw, it just is not the same. Ultimately it is run by people like you: volunteers, where really this “job” for you needs to be fun first and foremost if this is work you’re doing in your spare time, otherwise we would not have Beehaw at all.

    In that sense, I am happy for you to run Beehaw exactly as you see fit and for you to completely ignore any suggestions that are made to you. Hence, I suppose I’ve tried and will continue to try to not to add to the avalanche you describe in your post. Ultimately, I see myself as someone who is tagging along for the ride you are steering.

    If it gets to a point where I am no longer comfortable here, or it gets to a point where I am no longer welcome here and I am banned, then so be it. I will move elsewhere on Lemmy. And this is the beauty of decentralisation and the Fediverse and, hopefully, with time, as the technology matures, we will have ever more instances for people to find spaces which suit them rather than hoping to force the admins of existing instances to bend to their will because of a lack of alternative options.

    Anyway this is a long way of saying that I think you’re doing a great job and I hope with time the issues you are facing which are affecting your motivation are alleviated.

  • Silvally@beehaw.orgOPtoChat@beehaw.org•A Rant on Outdoor CatsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Letting cats outdoors is risky, not cruel. Not the same thing.

    I personally would not be comfortable subjecting any animal under my care to risks that I could prevent. But again, this argument comes from my belief that keeping cats indoors is not cruel… but if keeping cats indoors is in fact cruel then I wouldn’t want to have a pet cat at all in the first place. I would not be comfortable subjecting it to the risks that letting it roam outside unsupervised brought. Which I suppose is the point of my original post: if the only option to allow cats to roam around unsupervised then I believe we should not own cats at all.

    Indeed. Letting them out appears to be the lesser evil, as it involves a mere chance of the cat suffering, instead of a complete certainty.

    There’s a couple of factors to consider when weighing up the lesser evil in this hypothetical situation beyond the cats wellbeing, such as the impact on the local native wildlife. But this could start going into a wildly different argument because I would argue above all as an environmentalist that causing as little damage to nature as possible is of utmost importance. Can we calculate the risk of causing serious irreversible damage to local ecosystems by letting all domestic cats roam outdoors at once?

    So, basically, the choice is between lettings cats suffer in the short term or letting prey animals suffer in the short term (and possibly the environment as a whole long term)? Honestly… this is not a question I feel comfortable answering, personally, because I do not want to support the idea of anything suffering.