Two years ago when I launched Exploding-Heads, Lemmy offered a way to let me play a small role in fighting back against:
- censorship
- deplatforming
- propaganda
- Big Tech tyranny, and
- to help spread suppressed stories.
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.
So Exploding Heads is moving to Nostr.
Exploding-Heads.com will go offline August 31st 2023.
Please join us on Nostr.
Exploding Heads address on Nostr is npub1qprptnnuwnqc6h6wxc2q07rfwcmj7cfc6g4r5dgnlkxaysmpr0mqc5365p
Sounds complicated, but it is pretty easy. Here is what I recommend to get started
Amethyst App
- Lets you follow people
- Lets you follow #hastags (I have been using communities as a substitute for #hashtags on Lemmy
- Has evolving support for communities
Habla.news
- a Nostr alternative for Medium for long form content
Damus app (Apple IOS)
If you have any questions about getting up and running on Nostr, please ask them here https://exploding-heads.com/c/nostrblog
In closing, I sincerely apologize to all of you who are going to lose their profiles and content (please get anything you want off by August 31st), but it proves my warning about the problem with relying on benevolent dictators.
Please make sure to say hi to us on Nostr.
I hope the majority of our wonderful Exploding Heads community will make the move to Nostr with us.
Would you be willing to moderate those communities? That's our policy, I'm fine creating communities for other people but you have to take out your own trash. That means no illegal shit (our rule 0) and try to keep it not off topic. Plus any other rule you might wish to add as a mod.
nevermind, you are federated with shit just works and other instances which i do not get well along with, lemmy is dead for me
Lol. Well it's been a pleasure. Door's always open.