Yeah, it’s bad. I’ll probably be looking into hosting my own kbin instance on principle soon.

fork run by non-idealogues when

be the change you want to see in the world

The feeling of ownership, of oh I can go host an instance at home and knowing that you aren’t at the whim of corporate admins or a company’s poor fortune, is so incredibly cool. I really hope more decentralized/selfhostable alternatives to major services start to take off.

Every censorship-enjoyer loves talking about the Paradox of Tolerance. Here’s the part Popper said that they like to gloss over:

I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise.

You’re reducing load on the bigger instances by not using them directly, which is giving something back

Reddit’s popularity will slowly fade

Reddit definitely screws things up often enough for regular waves of recruitment lol

here come the defed request memes, I have a feeling these are gonna be popular across lemmy for a while

I honestly thought libertarian was the more flattering descriptor

Yeah, so do they - that’s why they try to co-opt the term lol

I never said they were equivalent.

Comma separation implies a list of traits (users are both r/thedonald users and libertarian) whereas or/and would imply that libertarians and r/thedonald users both exist in the instance

What term would you use to describe their users?

Conservative/MAGA fits the majority of the content a lot better

If you genuinely think libertarians are equivalent to r/thedonald posters, you have no clue what you’re talking about. Which is why defederating based on politics is stupid.

Not the prettiest instance, but have they caused any real trouble outside of their own instance? Not much of a fediverse if we just defederate from instances that lean different politically. Especially seems like a weird move to go defederating on other instances this early given y’know, that we just got defederated from beehaw because of one misbehaved asshole.

The high number of users on .world is because it still has open registration

I wonder if accounts on certain servers will be “prestigious” one day lol

no summer lemmy until the kids figure out the fediverse

Problem is that 1) this will drastically increase the centrality of servers Jerboa chooses 2) if Jerboa treats all servers equally when choosing to avoid point 1, well, all servers aren’t made equally. What happens if someone’s closest/optimal server is one that some guy spun up temporarily and takes down next week? How many users would leave immediately and have the wrong impression of the fediverse forever if they joined through Jerboa and then got dropped into the likes of Lemmygrad or Yiffit since it’s the nearest server to them lol…

Given lemmy is federated it’s probably going to be significantly harder to search. I’d imagine if you went looking for “lemmy” content you’d be a lot more likely to get lemmy.world or lemmy.ml rather than sh.itjust.works or beehaw content for example, since those have “lemmy” in the domain name.

Better is the truly important part, and if it doesn’t feel like a psyops campaign we’re already winning

^ Lenovo tiny thinkcenters are the best thing ever. Heck, I use the older haswell-era M73s that you can get for $30-40 on ebay and they’re amazing. Only drawback is no m.2 and no PCIe expandability but if you’re on a budget and want a starter homelab you can literally cluster 3 of these things for ~$100

Reddit content quality isn’t nearly this high

It doesn’t have to be a main instance if enough people come into the other instances, and there’s plenty of content elsewhere. I don’t interact with lemmy.ml at all personally.