It's located in my country.
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It worked, and was better than my previous instance.
I have problems with control and lack of choice, when my first instance started de-federating willy nilly I started growing distaste on it. To me it wasn't about what /was/ being censored, to me it was the fact that they were doing so in the first place, while doing so with very little public input. It gave really large Karen/power trip vibes and made me feel like at the end of the day, they didn't really care about the userbase.
.world was the biggest one. I have since switched to one that doesnt have abusive zionist mods in news and worldnews (looking at you, jordanlund), but I still come back to .world periodically when I dont see much new content on the instance I like. Mods moderating to support their own biases can ruin a site.
The other furry instance shut down. 😞
It was the first one I saw that didn't have a "silly" name.
i chose mander.xyz because they do not de-federate or block any instances (other than threads) - I would like the opportunity to do my own censoring. That said, it is a great instance with good up time and hosted communities. Science FTW. A++
Dutch
Blåhaj.
Dring the Reddit Migration, this was the first one I heard about, so I picked it. Haven't been bothered to change it since.
Do you feel you will change in the future?
I know there's been an okay amount of people that have said about how they moved from Lemmy World due to moderation over reach along with often being de-federated from other instances on bias' (I have no evidence of this, just comments from others to this post)
Probably not, unless something major happens.
Gender dysphoria
so I liked kbin a lot and it was cause of ernest and what he was doing. then when it kinda fell apart I joined a small mbin instance based on what they guy who runs it wrote which was mostly just about being very much against censorship. Then piefed came about and what im on now is kinda the main instance and honestly its about the devs again who just were passionate about making something great and really expanding capabilities and such. I use a web portal and mostly im following the features I guess with features being things that put as much control in the hands of the user as possible.
Yeah it was sad seeing Kbin fall apart, tried Mbin and it's great but doesn't have the same feel in some ways sadly, Maybe the project could get a heart and grow in there own direction in the future as there's so many things they could do to become a great all around Instance but heard amazing things about Piefed and it's on the list of Software I hope to visit and try out in the near future.
yeah mbin forked because earnest was a bit to controlling but honestly it kinda felt like a good mmo in maintenance mode. Piefed is sorta the best of both as while it certainly has some stand out hard working devs it also has a development community talking and trying to make it and taking feedback. Seriously I have not paid attention at times only to find out there were a bunch more options in the configs and im like woa.
Slrpnk was down for a few days and the admin was super transparent about what was going on (iirc, they were on a business trip and something happened to their home server that needed a physical button press). I was happy with that level of communication, and occasional down time is good for getting out and touching grass.
edit: I was on sdf before, but they're a lot less transparent about maintenance issues.
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I got into a fight in a bar, and some guy showed up, intervened, then hung out and kinda insisted I follow in my father's footsteps. I was like, meh, but I had nothing better to do, so I signed up.
Saw someone getting really bad tech tips, signed up to interject. Stuck around cause it's a cool name, suspect we may be defederated from some of the spicier instances, miss em but not enough to change right now
I chose it because it's the biggest Swedish instance, even if there are only ~100 active users.
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It would be weird to host an instance without using it...
I migrated during Reddit's API debacle. I picked sh.itjust.works for several reasons:
- No email required to sign up (at the time)
- Hosted the only NonCredibleDefense community on Lemmy (at the time)
- Had almost no defederated instances (at the time)
- Consistent uptime (was 99% at the time and still not far off)
- Hosted in Canada but accepting of US citizens
- Powered by 98% renewable energy
- TheDude abides
While some things have changed like defederating from more servers, it's left up to a vote by users of the server and the vote doesn't get proposed unless there's a good reason (such as a server being Nazi-friendly or constantly harassing/trolling users)
I find that keeping the Fediverse open to others as much as possible is a really helpful thing instead of De-Federating on the first little bad message from a user that probably got missed or is being dealt with by the system admin.
The Nazi instance that got blocked literally had something adjacent to "nazi" in their url. Fairly clear decision if you ask me. This was a few months ago so I don't recall the actual server name without digging it up.
Then there was the Hexbear fiasco, where they decided to federate with us (apparently they have it set up for admins to opt-in to federation instead of opt-out). They ended up swarming all of our communities for 4-5 days with nonstop harassment. Then their admins decided to re-defederate before we could vote on whether to block them. Literally a "you can't fire me, I quit!" scenario.
For Lemmy I just chose a larger instance and went with it. I've considered moving to one more aligned with my interests though hasn't been much reason to yet.
For Mastodon I went with Fosstodon precisely for my interests as I can better enjoy the local feed.
A good local feed is always helpful. Though I've resorted more to the Global as of late as run my own instances and often don't invite to many people.
Supporting Canadian because I am Canadian.
Same. But for Mastodon I went with tech.lgbt, which honestly is a way stronger overlap of my identity and interests.
lemmy.zip has so far been chill. Lemmy world is in practice run by a small group of overbearing mods that remove posts they personally don't like as opposed to just letting the community decide, even when no community rules have been broken. They also defederate and block other instances aggressively. I don't like my instance to censor things I want access to.
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I am a programmer.
Same. Well, was. Still at heart.
Disgust over .world an piefed's neoliberal crusade.
I think people go the wrong way with instancing, I get it that people don't want to see certain things and that is true of everyone too but we should be doing that kind of filtering as individual users only after the instance allows mostly everything to come in, excluding anything obviously bad but not automatically excluding anything political in certain ways for example.
So that's why I choose things like peertube.wtf because it is everything minus whatever I choose not to subscribe to.
And Lemmy.zip because it is relatively open for everyone
People also go the same way with ai, trying to pin it down to specific things in its personality before you even prompt it, it should be biased towards more connectivity before you go pinning it down.
Cuz shit just works
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