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Because nothing has changed?
People have had 2 years to switch to another instance. Lemmy.zip, used by OP, is nice.
Personally I think if LW wants to ban a certain kind of content, more power to them. But they should be transparent about it.
If they've said they'll unban pirate content, then pirate content should be allowed. If they want it banned, fine, but make a statement clarifying that that is the case.
OP is doing good work by pointing this out.
We wouldn't want anyone forgetting, now would we?
People don't want to switch.
Then they're the same as the Reddit users who refuse to move. It's not hard to move to a different Lemmy/PieFed instance, that's our strength. You can export your account data and import it to your new instance so your subscriptions transfer.
But your upvotes and comment history don't.
For some of us, that’s not a bad thing. I tend to burn my account and make a new one every year or two, just to minimize the accumulation of potential doxxing material.
I also tend to swap things like my specific location when I talk about where I live. Pretty sure on just this one account I have comments saying I live in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. I’ll even change how I talk about my job. I work in live entertainment, but that’s a very broad category. I change details like how many seats my venue has, what my specific job is, (for instance, on this account I’m an audio technician), what my work history is like, what kinds of shows I tend to work, etc… All of them have grains of truth, (for instance, I have worked as an audio technician in the past, so I know what the job entails), but none are truly correct and all are red herrings in some way.
Sure but IDK that just doesn't seem important. That's the same issue we had switching from Reddit to Lemmy. My Reddit posts aren't gone and neither are my programming.dev posts, I'm here on retrolemmy.com now and I'm fine leaving my old account behind. If I need to edit an old post then I'll open programming.dev but that doesn't bother me.
Then we have different viewpoints. I'm very much NOT ok with leaving my old account behind.
If AI hadn't banned me on reddit, I'd be much happier over there. I'd have my old account, and all my post history going back 10 years. Which by this point would be more like 12 or 13 years.
It's not important to you, but it's important to me. Just because youhave an opinion doesn't make it "the right way". Everyone can have different opinions, and thats ok.
Literally 3 months after I got here, and started figuring out how the fediverse worked, I was calling for changes. Quite frankly, what I thought the fediverse was is a lot cooler than what it actually is.
I can post a picture here from pixelfed, but it's no different than posting a picture from imgur.
So the account history is all I have to look back at.
Would you really be happier in the den of nazis, bots and shills?
I'm passing by this discussion and just inserting myself in here to say: I'd be happier if reddit was more like it was when I joined - when it wasn't the den of nazis, bots, and shills. Although the admins have always been libertarians^[:hissssss:] and protective of the fascist point of view… but at least in the old days it wasn't as pervasive.
But that aside, I agree with you in general.
Wrong. My opinions are the only correct ones. ;-)
Well tbf idk what you expect people on other instances to do about it lol
Then admins have no reasons to change anything
People want access to the defederated instances, on lemmy.world.
People also wanted API access on Reddit in 2023, and here we are
Notice how 'here' is no longer reddit
Reddit refused access to API, and people left reddit.
Lemmy.world is refusing access to the pirate instances.
By your logic, people should leave Lemmy.
No, by the same logic you should consider leaving lemmy.world.
People who want to access that community should leave lemmy.world, since it doesn’t seem like the admins want to unblock it. There are other lemmy instances, along with Piefed and mbin too.