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[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 year ago (59 children)

I appreciate the distinct lack of hexgoons on this thread.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (36 children)

Out of the loop, what happened?

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 year ago (3 children)

lemmy.world defederated from a instance full of pro-russia shitheel trolls who would ruin any discussions regarding Ukraine. It's very nice not having to scroll through their propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ohh I totally forgot about the defederation. Now it all makes sense.
Thanks

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Klear 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes! Good on them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Meh. I never saw anything like that. Usually russian-sympathizers are downvoted into oblivion and there's not that many of them.

I'm curious exactly what these people were saying, but now I'll never get to see because someone else decided to censor it for me.

Not really defederating, but I hope we can update lemmy so censorship is optional. You can choose to have posts hidden by mods hidden from you, or not. That way everyone wins, except for the children who think "I don't want to see this, so neither should anyone else!" And honestly, who cares about those kids?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got kicked from communities in lemmy.ml a year ago when I tried Lemmy for the first time, for not worshipping everything China did.

[–] SuddenDownpour 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad that you actually came to saner instances once they came live, and didn't just feel aversion to the Fediverse as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean I did just stop using Lemmy for a year. Then when Reddit did dumb and Lemmy exploded, I forgot that Lemmy was what I had tried.

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