Hey there everyone!
It's been a nice run, but all good things come to an end as they say.
This nice thing comes to an end on Jul 2nd, 2026 which is when the domain expires and I've decided to not renew it.
It's been a nice run and I'm grateful to all the active users of our small Fediverse home!
click here if you're interested in the reason
As for the reason for this decision, it's because Lemmy and the Threadiverse in general didn't turn out into what I envisioned it would be.
For a hot minute it was honestly great but eventually all that remained was tankies propaganda and depressing news. And probably a few non-political communities that sadly don't really offset it for me.
I was pondering on keeping it running even if I don't really use it that much anymore, but then Hetzner announced a significant price change (and you can bet that Lemmy is an unoptimized resource hog) which is not the reason on its own, but the proverbial last straw.
So yeah, that's it I guess. I promised that if the instance ever goes down, I'll let everyone know with enough time and I believe I managed to do it.
I'll maintain the instance until it expires and I'll keep on moderating it of course but it's probably a good time to start looking for a new Threadiverse home.
Yet again, thank you very much to everyone who has been part of this instance! And to many of the friendly admins of other instances!
Do you have another recommendation for an instance that won't ban me for saying something like "I think marijuana use should be strictly regulated."
You might want to switch to a PieFed instance while you are at it. It's the same content, but with a LOT more features: polls, flairs, feeds (=multireddits), comments federate instead of just posts, you can get notifications for every post in a quiet comm if you so wish, etc.
Anarchist.nexus might be good for you; they let you be largely whatever you are. All goes, as long as you're not a fascist, tankie, or similar. It's not forbidden to be against weed there. Nor is it forbidden to be for weed either, for that matter.
You can also just click "register" on any PieFed instance to see a broader list. Or go to http://piefed.fediverse.observer/ to see what exists.
Sounds good, but I can't be on a site called "Anarchist.nexus". 😂
And I'm not an Anarchist. I'm pretty much the opposite of that.
Nord.pub is hosted physically in Finland. Try that? :)
Or, since you've been happy to be on a German server, then piefed.social is a very very stable instance. And if you want no defederations, then piefed.zip.
You really were banned on other instances for saying marijuana use should be strictly regulated?
Not whole Lemmy instances, but I got banned from the r/millennials subreddit for that about a year ago. I really wasn't even being that antagonistic about it. I was just sharing scholarly peer reviewed articles with people that refused to believe that marijuana might have some negative side effects. Didn't even get a warning. Boom, perma ban.
Most instances will be fine with that, we've also had discussions on our instance and !canada@lemmy.ca in the past about similar studies.
This place isn't immune to powertripping mods and admins, but generally you CAN find places without that.
Sigh. Yeah, that's not right to get banned for having a different opinion than a moderator.
Can't say I have one, as that was pretty much the niche (freedom of speech where you're allowed to say anything as long as it's not illegal or hurting other people) I tried to fill because it was empty. Haven't really checked newer instances, so don't know if there's one with similar mindset.
Well, I appreciate your effort.
There should be several? E.g. sopuli?