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.

  • Please please please be nice to people that are taking their own time and mental energy from their own lives without material compensation to give you something cool to enjoy.

    Not only that, sign up to donate to their Patreons. I give a buck a month to my mastodon instance and my two lemmy instances.