exploding-heads.com have recently announced their intention to move to Nostr. Their plan is to leave Lemmy behind entirely, with exploding-heads.com poised to go offline on August 31st 2023.
Original announcement: https://exploding-heads.com/post/765290 Lemdit link: https://lemdit.com/post/735021
According to their admin:
I knew Lemmy had its challenges, but I hoped it would evolve for the better. Sadly after 2 years, the culture of censorship through defederation has only grown stronger.
Meanwhile a better alternative has sprung up in the form of Nostr:
- it lets you own your own profile - if you move to another Nostr app or site, you still keep your content and followers
- it makes censorship very difficult
- it is not perfect, but is evolving for the better very quickly.
As a user you should not be at the mercy of instance operators who are
- petty tyrants, or
- benevolent dictators (who may turn tyrannical at any moment)
I do not feel I can alter the tyrannical direction Lemmy is heading in and I want to dedicate my time and resources to a better alternative.
Some users are questioning the transition to a micro-blogging-style platform like Nostr and the effect this will have on existing Lemmy communities.
About exploding-heads.com
exploding-heads.com is one of the larger Lemmy instances, with ~7.4k registered users.
They are a right-leaning instance which is centered around free speech:
Use humor and facts to hold the ruling class accountable
We are a fun loving community of free people tired of propaganda fed to us government, media, big tech, crony capitalists, and self anointed elites.
exploding-heads.com has received a largely hostile reception from other large Lemmy instances, many of which have chosen to defederate from them.
So... Hexbear