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I mean you're not wrong about it not being all that constructive, but I really don't see much harm in admins venting frustration. They're regular humans too and it's understandable they get frustrated with things, it's probably a bit of a turbulent time for them.
I completely agree with that, but I am concerned that A) if it's happening in a way that could filter back as "the admins of Beehaw" that may be poor for external relationships and B) in isolation it implies that those admins may not be taking a constructive approach to these issues, which would be obviously be bad.
I'm not sure exactly what the best answer is but I do think it would be good for the admins to think about it a bit and consider the best options for inevitable future circumstances like this.
I suspect that if this post had been one with a more constructive angle but that expressed those personal frustrations in addition to that then it would probably be ok. Unfortunately, when you take on responsibility as administrator for a community you do need to consider how what you do might affect that community and that does lead to feeling more restricted than if you were just a regular user.
I do get where you're coming from even though I don't agree. As you said, we're looking at this post in isolation; I don't think a random rant about a huge platform update that hasn't gone terrifically well is indicative of Beehaw admins not being constructive about it in general. It's still a < v1.0 service after all and there are some huge problems with eg. federation and whatnot that are causing admins and users of all instances nontrivial amounts of hassle.
It's a bumpy ride and there's going to be annoyances aplenty, but I do trust that in the end everyone is handling things OK even though annoyances sometimes flare up