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Instance drama is becoming real fucking tiresome on Lemmy.
But here we have alternatives.
Switch servers and avoid power tripping mods.
The main thing is needing to know what's going on
Not sure if you are new here, but those communities might interest you
It’s unfortunate. A lot of the first movers that set up early instances during the Reddit blackout are not the type of people that should be running these things.
Think Reddit powermods but more unhinged and extreme.
The dbzer0 thing is not because of simple drama, but because lemmy mirrors contents onto the server itself. To not become liable for piracy, they blocked the instance, because it was linking pirate content. Even on reddit you were never allowed to post that.
If you're talking about blocking specific communities, I'm not aware of any other major ones. Lemmy.world is the largest instance, so most likely to be targeted by legal threats, and run by volunteers, so not worth going to jail over.
Entire instance blocks are pretty common though. Ignoring spam instances, the commonly blocked ones would be Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and Hilarious Chaos (previously called Exploding Heads).
I created new account yesterday just because of this
Enjoy lemm.ee, it's great!
Until your alt gets banned for saying that you BELIEVE (not know, just believe) that Imane Khelif is intersex/has a Y chromosome.
That's because anti trans bigotry isn't tolerated. GTFO.
Make accounts on 2-3 instances. It's worth it.
That sounds exhausting switching between them.
Yeah for example I started on lemmy.world and then there was some defederation drama. So I made an account on lemmy.today because they don't block any instances. Just to give me the entirety of the fediverse. Plus it's good to have a backup in case a server goes down.
I think a lot of people start on Lemmy.world and lemmy.ml but then overtime switch to other instances they made alts on. I think it’s a cool way that things work and centralisation gets avoided.
I think lw blocks lemm.ee/c/conservative but whether or not that's a good sub is up to you.
Just had a look around. On the recent article about immigration, the second highest comment is a progressive questioning the education level of conservatives. So the block is not completely effective.
Personally I think it's a terrible idea for people to be siloing themselves into bubbles where everyone agrees with them. In a democratic political system this cannot end well.
I don't think it's actually trying to block progressives from commenting. They're trying to be an anti-silo.
Sounds great! As a moderate I would fit right in! Oh - except I'm not allowed to.
PS: to be clear, I mean I can't do it with this account because it's not federated AFAICT.
What do you mean? Did you get banned? The only ban I see on the modlog is you get banned from /Europe for racism.
Indeed, and I get the feeling that the point of your comment is not to ask any question but rather to propagate that smear even though you probably haven't even looked into whether or not it was justified.
Or perhaps you have, and you can tell me (us) why it was?
Tbh, I think those exact mods banned me for the exact same thing. I haven't gone looking.
Interesting. Sorry for jumping to conclusions! I had a private exchange with the mod in which every reasonable thing I said just made him more convinced that I was secretly a fascist. A pretty disturbing experience. I think we need to take back that community, not sure how to go about it though.
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