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Instance Defederated with how many other instances
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feddit.de 101
lemmy.world 63
lemmy.ml 44
sh.itjust.works 4
exploding-heads.com 3

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought lemmy.ml was run by the same people as lemmygrad. (And the Lemmy code creators)

At the beginning (of the reddit exodus) the admins were definitely banning people from lemmy.ml for being "critical of the Chinese government" calling it racism. ("Orientalism" was their term.)

I switched to lemmy.world that same day, and haven't really kept up with that instance since then.

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

I think it's funny when assholes (and it's always the assholes of any group) scream that anything slightly challenging a point of view is racist/phobic...no it's not you fuck heads there can be legitimate different points of view without it being from hate. For example I'm an American, some shit we do well, lots more shit we do poorly, but calling anyone who calls the US on their bullshit "racist/phobic/current term de jour" makes me assume the person accusing is a moron and their opinion shouldn't matter.....it only gets weird when you have two genuine morons trying to claim the high ground like say a white supremacists being upset a black supremacist is calling them out, they both suck.

I'm sorry....I'm in Florida and there's so much goddamn stupidity here it's insane. Take drag shows...have you ever been to one? I'm straight straight....but drag shows are a blast, everyone leans in enjoys themselves and move on. The shows are aimed at adults and spend no time indoctrinating kids unlike the Catholic church...hell I can't think of one news story about a kid getting molested at a drag show/brunch/library hour, can't say the same for church, but nobody is trying to protect the kids from getting diddled by "god's" messengers.

I've lost my point, but fuck Florida.

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

I've tagged you as incoherent. ✌️

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

I'd have to see some specific examples to pass judgement.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Here ya go: https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199

Edit: be sure to scroll down for the admin comments on the matter.

And note that I do not know if they have since changed course on this for lemmy.ml

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

Holy crap. This should be it's own post. Just purged all the "serious" communities I was following on there.

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

I know what you mean but I had to laugh because I linked a post. That is to say, it was its own post haha.

I'm not going to lie, I'm constantly waffling between Lemmy and kbin in no small part because Lemmy (the software) is maintained by that same admin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Haha yeah, good point. I guess I should have specified it would be a good post on this community specifically where people look to find handy tips for using Lemmy effectively. The fact that one of the huge instances where a lot of your search results come from when you're starting out looking for content has such an aggressive pro-totalitarian moderation strategy is an unexpected, but very useful insight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using Lemmy because it looked easier to set up but damn, once there's kbin apps I might have to look into switching my server over to kbin.

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

As far as I know, kbin doesn't require JavaScript either. Which might be another plus considering the Lemmy vulnerability that was just exploited using JavaScript.

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

While I also don't like JS, I just want to point out that not having JS on the website does nothing to prevent an XSS attack that injects JS into a site. This is more of a back-end kind of problem.

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

I appreciate the clarification, thanks.

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

I get you. I'm left leaning politically but after seeing life under totalitarian leftist regimes first hand, that's a hard pass for me and I find myself struggling with interacting with people who think that's okay.

Even though I like lemmy more than kbin, I've been thinking of switching too because Earnest sounds like a great guy whose philosophy is more in alignment with what I believe in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That is one of them. He comments throughout the threads.

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

This seems to have been taken out of context. Their response seems to be about a supposed "white genocide" some white supremacists have thought up and I fully agree with him that that's bunk.

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

I don't know how to share a specific context with N number of context like I could on Reddit yet. See the comment they're replying to. They're only using "white genocide" as an example of something people wouldn't call you a "genocide denier" over you disagreeing with.