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The potential for future growth being very limited, and people spending hundreds of dollars a year on the server (a price that will only go up) plus all the effort in posting content...
I see the reason to not continue here.
Money can be raised. I think people would pay $20 /year to keep this open - assuming they had assurances, but I guess the cost of time effort and headache is the real burden.
Honestly the rest of Lemmy is a bunch of idiots I have very little interest in talking to.
I created an account on another 'decent ' instance but I'm not sure if I'll keep it.
were there any other instances that do free speech? i see your quotes so not getting my hopes up lol
Haven't heard complaints about lemm.ee. And the stated goals and open financials seems pretty promising.
That said, I wouldn't know it if people are routinely censored.
Main site has following rules:
No abusive language
No bigotry
No advertising
No pornography
Obviously last 2 aren't relevant here. First two, strictly as written, I wouldn't have issues with but I have seen sooo many leftists sites use the same language to basically virtue signal that they don't like conservatives, conservative ideas, or speaking out in any way against minorities.
Like I can understand not wanting slurs or personal attacks. But not being able to voice the opinion that affirmative-action hurts minorities or that gender-affirming care harms the patient as well as society without being called a bigot seems practically impossible on reddit or 99.999% of Lemmy instances.
Could be these guys interpret those rules literally like I do or could be they interpret things through a Critical Race Theory / leftist lens. I have no clue but I usually put it in reverse when I see this cuz it's so often the leftist interpretation.
Yea, but what they want to avoid is someone else taking over and becoming an evil dictator. Also costs.
And every one defederating to shut us out
I don't care about the rest of Lemmy.
I know :/
well for example lemmyworld is being attacked by CSAM right now, so like mob and kapow wanted to try to back off having to mod stuff like this, they want Nostr to structurally fix some of the problems of having to be a "benevolent dictator admin"
What is CSAM
child sexual abuse material