Since the lemmy.world admins here are refusing to clarify their own rules, selectively enforcing their vague rules, using communities for user counts before banning them and just being, well, spez-like, it’s time to find a new home.
So far, I am liking lemmy.ml, but I still have a list I am going through.
Where are you going?
Oh, before you go, make sure to file a CCPA or GDPR data deletion request. If they are so inclined to “stay legal”, they can start with those items.
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I agree, this thread is just deeply unnecessary
I just can’t understand why people wouldn’t just move on, it’s so easy on Lemmy
People want Reddit 2.0. There’s a lot of people who joined lemmy.world who are actively hostile to the idea of decentralization.
Those people should just go back to Reddit.
The amount of negativity in the threads linked to the piracy community block is very high for Lemmy standards.
I did not miss that.
He doesn’t like paying for things.
Start your own instance. Then it’s the best™
Not with this soggy sock running it.
I went with sh.itjust.works personally, mostly because I liked the name, it’s been good so far
That was my first choice, but shit didn’t just work, and I never got my verification email.
Had the same issue. It’s apparently been a problem for some time now. I ended up using my back up email to sign up.
Same thing for me with iusearchlinux.fyi, but before joining I had to leave lemmy.world after I had issues logging in. I could reset my password and login that way but I couldn’t actually login using the form. It was an issue lemmy.world had at the time, but not iusearchlinux.fyi
The vast majority of comments in here seem to be focused on the attitude of “why you trying to start shit”
But legitimately from an outside presiding perspective, which instances have people found to be decent, there seems to be a heap of Lemmy instances, each with their own rules and vibes, so what’s the go?
The usual resource is to look at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list, filter by 1m, and then have a look at the top 20.
spez-like
That’s probably the biggest insult you can say ton any person on this platform
If the shoe fits though
Lemm.ee has been working well for me, but I haven’t been paying too much attention to the admins. I mostly left lemmy.world because of the downtime
Yep, lemm.ee was my alt for when lemmy.world was down. Decided to go ahead and just make it my main account.
This is new territory for most instance admin and a volunteer effort. If you haven’t already, I’d encourage you to consider sharing constructive feedback with them as a first step instead.
As for finding new instances, it’s generally recommended to visit https://join-lemmy.org/instances.
I have. I have also read their reasoning posts for some of their community bans. As a matter of fact, my last post about this is at the top of the support community and was made only when I only knew about the shrooms community takedown.
I think their only response is going to be is for them to dig in their heels. (And their happy little takedown messages were really shitty and drive that home, TBH.) So yeah, I am going to migrate to another “home” instance. This is kind of a pain as my profile history is getting fragmented across different instances.
While they can “do what they want” as admins, flexing on budding communities in bad faith is not a good way to retain a user base for very long.
Really, I do want to see all instances and communities thrive! Their methodology is not supporting that right now.
My own 💅
me on my way to join your instance
You are more than welcome to! We have so… much… books.
I’d love that I could surf instances, from mobile apps.
I’ve chosen lemm.ee from the beginning. I like it so far.
Me too. Its better. No downtime, no arbritary defeds.
Interesting point to say they are spez-like while they just want to comply with local regulations
They can do that! As a matter of fact, I support compliance with local regulations.
The problem is, they aren’t. They are picking and choosing laws to follow. Their instance is located in Germany, but yet, their marijuana legalization laws are only in draft: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariosabaghi/2023/07/10/germany-unveils-draft-bill-to-legalize-cannabis/?sh=5ed53b322726
They are using the justification that “some things are illegal in some countries” as grounds for community suspension, yet, they are picking and choosing.
The admins are Dutch. Marijuana is legal in the Netherlands.
The instance is in Germany from what I understand. Regardless, their justification was that shrooms are illegal in most places. That being their main point sets up the contradiction that I am referring to. It casts a bit of doubt on the intent and how to interpret rule 1.
The admins don’t have to abide by their rules, but we do.
The real answer is to have multiple accounts spread around on different servers just in case one server goes tits up or bans content you like to see. You should be treating accounts here as having a limited shelf life anyway for good internet hygiene purposes.
Also so you don’t lose your subscribed list. Though it’s a huge pain here to set that up.
Is there an efficient way to transfer lists between accounts?
I’ve seen a script or something being shared to do it but haven’t used it myself as of yet.
I was already considering switching over to kbin fully just because they’re set up to interact with both Lemmy instances and Mastodon. Unfortunately the Mastodon side still feels a bit janky, but I’m hoping that’ll change as time goes on.
Definitely not going to stay with an instance that pre-emptively bends over for corporate interests. That’s one of the biggest reasons why I’m shifting away from Reddit in the first place.
Lots of upcoming bug fixes and improvements for kbin. It’s been a slow process but super keen to get them out finally
Definitely not going to stay with an instance that pre-emptively bends over for corporate interests.
Which one are you thinking about? No instance has corporate interests AFAIK
No instance has corporate interests AFAIK
if you want to go “well technically…” there are some mastodon instances that are VC funded (mainly in japan, though i think there’s like 1 or 2 in english), a few explicitly hosted by companies like vivaldi (the browser people) and medium, and misskey the software has built in support for running ads (though no western instance does that to the best of my knowledge)
none of them are lemmy, but they can all talk to each other
lemmy.dbzer0.com, this was founded by key people at r/piracy.
Top Moderator of r/piracy, to be specific. The person is also a left-wing anarchist so if you support authoritarianism or far-right politics, it’s not an instance for you.
I’m just happy to find a reddit alternative. Reddit decided to ban my account because I had two linked accounts and both accounts made a comment on the same post accidentally, because I forgot my main profile has already commented… I got perma banned for what they said was cheating the system!!! I made a two new emails and two new accounts and instantly banned on those too… Dude I was and am pissed, because my accounts were four years old with great interactions and subs… With no recourse to appeal… Found Lemmy.world by chance, today… and so far I am really happy with it. I saw that the app Boost will be coming out with its own app to host lemmt and I am all for it.
Wow. People are salty that lemmy.world wants to stay legal? Interesting…
Is this because of the recent defederation from piracy instances?
This instance is a “open to everyone” instance.
I think it depends what you are looking for but I think a solid rule of thumb is to look at what communities you interact with the most and see what instances they belong to.
If piracy is specifically what you are after I’d go for dbzer0. If it’s NSFW content that kind of complicates things.
I decided to give leminal.space a try and I like it. The admins are nice and quick to deal with issues and make posts about changes in the instance.
lemmy.fmhy.net has both piracy and NSFW
Edit: hmm their instance seems to be down, this is their new domain and the main site (fmhy.net) is working, hmm… 🤔
That’s the instance I was using originally until they had the domain name issue. I’ve had issues getting their website to load and for some reason it’s on uBlock Origin’s EasyList.
Yea they got a new domain and I saw the new lemmy instance working at some point. Maybe they’re facing some legal issues or something, or cloudflare has shut them down.
Could be but I feel like they would have had their other website taken down if that was the case. I hope they address it in their monthly update post in September.
