Or perhaps you just didn’t see those who don’t bother engaging in conflict?

I fully understand why you don’t expect to find content there in the future, but is that a good argument to deny access to those who already have?

Exploding heads have gotten subscribers from here as well. There’s an extensive backlog of topics some people find quite important - even if others don’t.

Exploding Heads have between 40-60 active users, you probably noticed two posters you find disagreeable.

Have you considered blocking the users or communities you find offensive?

I know what you mean, and from that point of view I agree. I have different values and so I use different measurements; A connection to a small instance is equally valuable as a connection to a big instance. It’s not about the amount of content but building a new paradigm of social media.

Well, we will end up with 160+ !gaming communities and no way of finding them other than word of mouth or actively checking every single instance and subscribe to !gaming - If they even have one.

It’s been a big issue for the two years I’ve been on Lemmy and I don’t believe the most used argument, “It will sort it self out, the community will balance it out”.

I’m not too bothered, I have mitigating procedures. I would be very interested in having this discussion again in a year, I feel this is one of the matters that only time will tell if one or none of us is right.

The link also refers to BB: The number of instances that this instances is completely Blocked By. If this number is high, then users on this instance will be limited in what they can see on the lemmyverse. and lists how many other instances every server on that list are blocked by.

When it comes to the overselling of Lemmy and the interconnectivity, what can I say? I’d word it very differently.

Anyways, from a technical point of view I’d say it’s close to what you describe - With third party instances working as an intermediary in some way. The issue is that there’s no “sync” for communities and historically we end up with three different versions of i.e. !gaming, one on each instance. What Lemmy need is some sort of multi-reddit/funneling/taggins system so you can just post to a !gaming community - And then it’d be rejected by those who’ve blocked you. But everybody else would get it.

I don’t see how one out of 160+ servers not connecting to sh.itjust.works would cut you out from the rest of the world.

I think of it more like being cut off from 1/160th of the fediverse. Unfortunate, but in the end a type of community I don’t think I’ll miss since our values don’t align.

You’re basically describing how the fediverse works I think.

How is it different than the current situation where both lemmy.world and beehaw.org are connect to lemmy.ml?

I don’t find this any more dramatic than sh.itjust.works blocking lemmygrad.ml lol

idk what to even say

Anything at all. You’re downvoted because they’re trying to silence you. Just keeping on trucking is the second worst thing you can do to the cowardly anonymous drive-by downvoter.

The worst thing you can do to them is keeping on trucking. With a smile.

iron fisted authoritarian regime with no freedoms at all

Tell you hwat, I think it’s sad how many people doesn’t see how close the west is to that description. Like come on, have the last few years not shown you that there are no freedoms in most western countries - Only temporary permissions?

I have no reason to believe either of the lead devs are employed by the Chinese.

They’re very outspoken communist sympathizers and run their own instance with their own rules. I don’t find that suspicious at all. Should I assume conservative instances are run by the US deep state ayy LMAO

If they came out of nowhere with a pre-packaged, all finished closed-source product I’d be worried.

there has been a lot of miss information about what is a tankie

You think so? I think the definition has been the same all the way, a communist fundamentalist with the tank possible alluding to Tiananmen Square.

I present to you a simple test to see if the person you are talking to is trust worthy.

I present to you a simple philosophical conundrum when it comes to asking people if they are lying…

What if they lie when they say they don’t lie?

Of course admins of the mentioned instances won’t say that, they’re quite outspoken about their political world views. It’s not a big Jack Huges revelation.

Also, I don’t think a political stance has much to say about trustworthiness. If someone says they’ll purge you for having different opinions and then do it? Exactly as promised. 🤷

Ah, to be young and piss on reddit again. Back in my days, we had to use TamperMonkey and manually copy the scripts we wanted to use to delete reddit comments.

You young folks don’t know how good you have it!

WE HAD TO DELETE OUR CONTENT IN THE RAIN AND WIND WHILE WALKING UPHILL WITH ANGRY DOGS CHASING US WHILE STEVE HUFFMAN WAS PERSONALLY ACCUSING EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US OF MURDER!

It can be interpreted as Marxism-Leninism, which I’m pretty sure both Lemmy and Lemmygrad have stated is the intention.

Also they were dirt cheap/free when the first Lemmy instances were launched. 😁

Lemmy is created by what many describes as “tankies”, fundamentalist communists. The lead devs are, in my impression generally supportive of the Chinese government. They run their own instances, dedicated to their own world view and interests. I don’t have the slightest problem with that.

Hopefully due to a lack of foresight their instance was presented as a flagship instance on the official landing page and other places, effectively making it the representative for Lemmy for a long time. With their moderation practices, they in large parts drove away what I consider reasonable users regardless of personal ideology.

This created an monolithic instance that dwarfed every single instance besides one; the other dev-run instance which seems like a containment instance for those too fundamentalist to stay on the “main” server. For a large part Lemmy was a downright nasty monoculture that would harass even lead developers for daring to interact with code-contributing users on instances deemed “problematic”.

With a very generous blocking practice, these monolithic instance basically shut out anybody not agreeing with them from the majority of content - including non-political. This in turn gave other instances less of a reason reason to stay on the Lemmyverse which reinforced the monoculture.

The devs did take steps to rectify this problem: they offered a year of free Lemmy hosting for anybody willing to admin a general purpose instance, recruited other general purpose instances to promote on join-lemmy.org. I respect that. But at that time it seemed too late to change the direction. When I realized the bad reputation Lemmy as a project had amongst some of the larger fediverse influencers, I realized that Lemmy would not be viable until it got a massive and sudden influx of new users to shake up the overall federated lemmy community. And now here we are!

Mastodon caches images from remote instances, Lemmy doesn’t. It links, which has it’s own issues (images disappearing from remote posts if the instance goes down). Everybody I’ve seen complaining about storage space have been open Lemmy instances with loads of users potentially uploading images to the pictrs sub-system. There’s even been requests to limit image storage for individual users.

If you’re thinking of using the YunoHost version of Lemmy, be aware that the pictrs subsystem is removed due to technical issues, I would absolutely recommend using the ansible install. But that might defeat the purpose of easy self-hosting for most YunoHost users…

From a non-technical aspect, the biggest issue (or at least used to be) on Lemmy was the ideological attacks and isolation by the fascist core community of any non-conforming instance. That had a chokehold on the lemmyverse to the point I saw no point running a Lemmy instance unless I self-censored my sometimes negative opinions of the Chinese government. Seeing the core developers being willing to hold back their own project was the biggest surprise when self-hosting Lemmy.

As someone who was on Lemmy very early on but left due to the toxicity of the core community, I find it so wonderful I’ve come back for the first time since last year. It’s rekindled my belief in Lemmy as a viable platform in the fediverse and I’m even considering reactivating my lemmy instance.

The only thing I’m afraid of is the newcomers being influenced by certain established instances and their anti-social and politically fundamentalist way as that would ruin this unique chance for Lemmy to grow.

My hope isn’t that Reddit will fall, it’s that alternatives (like Lemmy) will rise

Why not both?

The reddit blackout was as effective as turning off the lights at night.

Well, it’s a new day now and the users will be back - Just like they promised. 🐕

My RISV-V server (I have removed all binary blobs and have no closed source code ofc) is airgapped inside a Faraday cage.

For security reasons I never turn it on.