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I found that the members of r/luckystar were saying very sexual things about characters that, while 18, had very child like designs. And even if, they were saying shit like, "Cunny!" and, "Correction!" so, yeah.

I constantly reported all posts and comments like that I came across and eventually made a post asking why they were saying things like that. I wasn't hostile, and was in fact, rather calm about the situation. Meanwhile, they were all extremely rude and hostile towards my post, calling me names and such, and about 20 minutes later, my account was shadowbanned.

So, not only did Reddit moderation side with the pedos, they didn't even have the decency to tell me what I did wrong. Assuming how it all happened so suddenly, I'm just gonna assume the pedos all mass-reported my account for God knows what. Any and all appeals I've mad since then received no response.

I still stuck around for a few months after that, [that whole deal happened back in May of 2025.] but the extreme leftist political dooming invading every corner of the website I used made it absolutely miserable to use.

Tonight, I finally put my foot down and said, "I quit!" I discovered this website and made an account here. I guess you can use this post to welcome me to the Fediverse.

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[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Welcome! We don't have pedos, but we do have our fair share of extremist leftists. I'd advice against visiting communities on the hexbear and lemmygrad instances if you are not pro-communism/russia/china.

Furthermore you might want to read up on the idea of "instances" and what makes the fediverse different from lemmy. It helps explain how communities work here, but you can also just figure it out on the go.

The lemmy.ml instance, for example, is the OG instance. It has a few far-left communities and users, but plenty of a-political communities and user as well.

My isntance, sh.itjust.works, is a general-purpose instance based in Canada.

You're on PieFed, which is different from Lemmy for some reason haha.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

We don't have pedos

So long as you block all the loli anime.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm glad nobody on this instance subscribes to that kind of content.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

You'd think with a name like that they'd have caught him by now

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Gods, yeah. There’s a lot of creepy shit floating around if you don’t have the NSFW filter on.

I don’t think it’s fair to say that we’re better than Reddit because the user base is better (we definitely have some amazing people though). Lemmy is better than Reddit because it’s decentralised and not under the thumb of a big corporation.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

As far as I can tell, Piefed exists because some people didn't like that the lemmy devs are communists.

I haven't looked into piefed, I'm exclusively going off what pro-piefed/anti-lemmy users have said.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (12 children)

That's not right. If anything, the problem would be that they support aggressive authoritarian regimes or that they're more anti-west than communist.

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[–] blah3166@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago

I left lemmy because of the nutomic, yogthos, and dessalines. horrible people who have too much influence/control on all things lemmy and will ban/silence you for anything. check out !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Piefed exists because some people didn't like that the lemmy devs are communists.

But then they could have used Mbin, which is older than Piefed?

Iirc wasn't it because python is easier for beginners to learn than rust and php, so it's easier to get more contributors and thus deliver features faster?

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Piefed is way nicer to use than mbin, feature rich.

I've used all three mentioned. While I don't like the lead Lemmy dev, I actually just like Piefed more it's not just out of principal.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (22 children)

They're not commies, they're tankies.

Tankies are far removed from communism, they don't care for communist ideals or communist values, they only care for authoritarianism.

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 4 points 4 days ago

This really is the beauty of the fediverse: every instance has it's own character, and even if we don't agree on specific stances, we are still connected and it reduces the bubble effect massively. I believe this open discourse and the not-politial-motivated algorithm are the best way to reduce extremism, and if you don't want to engage with a group you can filter it. @soggysandwich@piefed.social - if you find an instance which fits your believes better, don't hesitate to switch, you can export and import your subscribed communities easily. Welcome!

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The lemmy.ml instance, for example, is the OG instance. It has a few far-left communities and users, but plenty of a-political communities and user as well.

oh my god i actually thought lemmy.ml stood for lemmy marxist-leninist this whole time.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

It does, but it is also a general-purpose isntance. It was long the default landing page on join-lemmy.org, but that is no longer the case. That's why there are a lot of people on there who aren't lenninist-marxist. It is still one of the biggest instances.

[–] FleetwoodLinux@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

It doesn't, the Mali TLD was free/cheap for a while (no longer)

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

it is now, it was general for tech people. but its mostly ultra-left propaganda vomit. if you look at how they comment is extremely uncanny if not similar to how right wingers comment. i also notice they are trying to takeover political memes community too.