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Thought I'd just ask you here in this comment chain seeing as you're pretty extensively well traveled in the Fediverse lol. What other good options are there for instances that don't do a lot of de-federating (and give you the general 'Reddit' experience) but also aren't completely unmoderated? I don't want to end up somewhere that half of the Fediverse de-federates from for whatever reason. Is it just lemmy.world and lemm.ee?

That's a fair point. So I guess the purpose that it actually serves is bookmarking and saving the page at the same time. I can definitely see the use in that actually.

The feddit.org interpretation of that law is debated

Sure but that doesn't change that they interpreted it the way they did and now they're enforcing that interpretation. Theoretically any instance could do whatever they want but in reality this instance did the thing that everyone worries about centralised platforms doing.

I get that you can leave links to your old profile and communities, you can also do that on forum sites and any other platform when you switch. I still don't see any difference or benefit here. As an end user that just wants a place to shit post and isn't trying to run a server or write code or whatever, the experience is the same, whether I'm trying different Lemmy instances or different centralised platforms. And it'll be the same until I can take my online presence and all of its history, pack my bags and go elsewhere with it. Not sure how that would work though, I'm just spitballing here.

Anyway, I think this is probably a conversation that I'm gonna avoid and ignore in future here though. I get the sense that the only place to discuss certain aspects of the Fediverse without people getting angry or taking things personally is somewhere outside of the Fediverse. Because people are weird and defensive about it and make it part of their personality, which I think is the reason for at least 50% of the hate towards Bluesky.

Weird gimmick that I've literally never used or even ever considered using. There's already this obscure thing that you can save articles and pages in for later called "bookmarks".

Based on everything I've seen across DC adaptations, this kid could be DC's answer to Spider-Man and he should've been pushed as such long ago. If they weren't so busy making 90% Batman and Batman related content. Looking forward to seeing him get his own actual series, so we can all get to know him better.

I'd still rather there be more choices personally. Not everyone is going to go for the Fediverse, so in that case rather Bluesky than Twitter or Facebook.

Also, recently feddit just announced that they're going to be using their subjective discretion to remove "anti Israel, pro Palestine" comments and posts, out of fear of regulations back home. So it turns out that Lemmy instances are just as vulnerable to government censorship and / or bad actors being in charge as any other platform. There's nothing really stopping any large instance from deciding to monetize or whatever that I can see.

And it's really not as simple as just moving to another instance if the one you're on becomes questionable because then you lose your entire comment history and if you mod a community, you lose everything you've built and have to start over. Just like if you moved from any platform to any other platform, decentralization isn't a benefit here.

2 or 17. Sometimes (rarely) 20.

People here are going to celebrate when Bluesky fails and people are left with less and much worse options again. People here have been clamoring for Bluesky's downfall since I got here and it's pretty ridiculous. At least women didn't have to scratch and claw and fight just to exist on that platform. For all of the pearl clutching and purity checking that goes on here on Lemmy, there's a lot of neckbeards that are terrified of cooties who can't understand why someone would choose to be somewhere else.

Yeah it's not too bad but pretty annoying. I'd rather just answer more complicated questions and wait 1 day for someone to confirm my account when signing up than this 4 week limit personally. Quick signup but then you're locked out of one of the most common functionalities around here for a month first.

But yeah, it's nice getting to see the underbelly of this place myself. Not as filthy as I expected lol. Also started using a new app, Summit, that goes beyond any other app I've tried so far. So I've been having fun tagging users and making multicommunities.

Thinking of looking for another instance where I don't have to wait 4 weeks just to upload a profile pic lol. But otherwise it's interesting getting a more unfiltered look at Lemmy. And eye opening seeing downvotes again. People downvote the dumbest shit, like there's people around that haven't realised that there's a third option instead of upvoting or downvoting - just scrolling past and ignoring if you don't personally like it.

That's actually a very good point. Usually Christians be like "god is infallible and has a master plan and everything is according to 'his' will and divine vision. Except for gay people and trans people and cannabis plants and dinosaur bones. In that case, fuck god's plan."

Good to see you around again, you've been scarce lately and I used to see you everywhere. This is @Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone btw. Currently in between usernames and shopping instances.