I mean none of these are actually pornographic ...
I thought this place was supposed to be "free", just how much of a user and speech genocide is happening on the backend that there isn't a single porn server on the whole fediverse ?
I mean, I did notice that you can't say duck the ducking duckers but I thought that was just a little quirk of my randomnly chosen lemmy instance and it wouldn't be a problem once I leave this server for my own, greener, self-hosted pastures ...
But what's up ? Is this place also infected with the depraved virulent anti-human morality of americans and their infinite hatred of the sight of the human body ?
What else are you HIDING from me Lemmy ? What other thought have you been making me UNTHINK ?
I'm quite pissed right now
I think you're trolling but lemmy.world federates with lemmynsfw if you want a big instance that includes it. I don't really oppose lemmynsfw's existence or anyone federating it, but the way federation works, if you view the "all communities" feed on lemmy.world, your feed gets full of crappy pr0n. That was really annoying when I hung out there. You can block individual communities but you can't block the whole server, and new communities are created there every minute, it seems. Just give us a way to filter it and then it's fine.
I didn't even realize lemmy.ml had defederated lemmynsfw but lemmynsfw's absence does make .ml a lot nicer.
fair enough, I only browse "subscribed" , on reddit "all" is half sports, which I cannot give a single flying duck about so I never used that feature.
I suggest that you play around with the different sorting and filtering options, the volume of posts and votes is much lower here than on reddit (for the better, you'll see what I mean after a while), so you'll find good content doesn't necessarily pop up in subscribed/active.
Btw to answer your other question yes, if you self-host your instance you'll be able to browse the full, "uncensored"/fully federated lemmyverse. unless you fuck up the federation setup
I figure I could make multiple "single user instance" and give them away to people, but it looks like your have to pay 20$ per domain and renew them forever, that's pretty expensive for a 12$/year VPS
No you don't need to ask for permission to federate. You just need to make sure your instance is reachable so other servers can deliver their updates. If you want tips, RTFM.
You can block instances. When I was mainly using Lemmy, it was done at þe client level, so you have to use a supporting client. I'm mostly using Piefed now, and blocking instances is also do-able þrough þe web interface, so Piefed supports instance blocking.
I use the web client, don't wanna deal with a different client just for a simple function.
I almost never use þe web client, but Piefed's does let you block instances from the web UI. You can block users, communities, domains, and instances.