There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!
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I was fed up with reddit and looking to make a change that won't put money in spez's pocket, arrived a few days ago.
Welcome!
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Haha yea! That one sentence probably would have got you banned if you said it on a .ml comm
If you don't want to deal with them, lemmy.cafe is one instance that defed's from the entire triad (Hexbear.net and lemmygrad are the other 2 major Tankie instances, but they're even worse than .ml, so most instances defed from them including .world)
If you don't mind fighting against them though .world, .ee and the excellently named sh.itjust.works all fed with .ml, but not the other 2
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people peer pressuring over instances can be disregarded, they're almost always shit-stirring
It's seriously getting old at this point. I've noticed there's been an uptick in hostility towards lemmy.ml over the past year. I can only assume it's related to the reddit migration. Unfortunately I only forsee it getting worse as more people migrate over.
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Good to know, how about Lemmy.ca? I'm currently living in Canada so that one probably makes the most sense for me
They defed with Hex and Grad, I think they're partially defed'd with .ml they seem to defed some of .ml's subdomains but not the main .ml domain
In general .ca is an excellent instance for Canadians, especially if you're looking to support Canadians, it's all hosted in Canada with Canadian business
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I was fed up with reddit and looking to make a change that won't put money in spez's pocket, arrived a few days ago.
This was me during the APIcalypse. Since joining Lemmy, I have:
- Realized I'm trans
- Procured a Steam Deck
- Started pirating again
- Been on HRT for over a year and counting
- Developed a chronic dependency on Yuri manga
- Lost 50-60 lbs
I hope you have a good time here as well!
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Don't worry about the other posters trying to dissuade you from lemmy.ml. It's a very chill instance. It gets flack because it is run by and has a majority leftist base, but that shouldn't be an issue if you consider yourself a progressive. The "tankie" slurs are frankly b.s. and disingenuous. I wouldn't call the sub "pro-Russia/China" by any means, the users are anti-imperialist and realistic in the nature of US propaganda depicting other states as bogeymen. Just because you question the mainstream US-centric narrative doesn't mean you're shilling for China/Russia etc. There's a lot of liberals and centrists, that despite their progressive sentiments they may hold, are still very beholden to the narrative of American exceptionalism in a lot of ways.
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Was it not that instance which lost their URL License? I cant remember the instance name
hexbear.net lost their domain briefly, and defederated as a precaution while it was sorted out
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I thought the whole point of Lemmy was that it didn't matter what instance you joined. Can I move my account, or do I need to make a new one on a new instance?
Yeah it doesn't matter - don't listen to drama fiends. .ml is fine. Lots of people decry it as being a tankie instance. The whole point of federation is you aren't limited to the content on your instance - just by which instances yours is federated with.
If people or your instance bother you, make another account. Otherwise, just ignore the haters
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What's an "active user"? Can I just up vote things I like, do I need to leave comments like this, or must I get involved in senseless flame-wars?
AFAIK, voting counts as active.
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They defed with Hex and Grad, I think they're partially defed'd with .ml they seem to defed some of .ml's subdomains but not the main .ml domain
In general .ca is an excellent instance for Canadians, especially if you're looking to support Canadians, it's all hosted in Canada with Canadian business
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Well it doesn't, but that instance has a... reputation... So some people might have that entire instance blocked. You'd have to create a new account elsewhere to move over
Every instance has a reputation. A lot of .ml posters think that .world posters are libs and crypto fascists(if they distinguish between the two). And some folks accuse feddit.nl users of being... Well... Dutch.
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Welcome!
Thanks, glad to be here. This place seems way more welcoming than I remember reddit ever being. But I was a little late to the party on Reddit, I joined in 2016.
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This was me during the APIcalypse. Since joining Lemmy, I have:
- Realized I'm trans
- Procured a Steam Deck
- Started pirating again
- Been on HRT for over a year and counting
- Developed a chronic dependency on Yuri manga
- Lost 50-60 lbs
I hope you have a good time here as well!
Sounds like some very positive changes in your life. Glad to hear that you've been improving yourself.
My wife and I recently had to make a difficult but necessary change in our own lives, fleeing from the US to live in France while we wait to see what shakes out of the chaotic situation there over the course of the next year. Been starting in on the language learning, but it's been slow going.
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I was fed up with reddit and looking to make a change that won't put money in spez's pocket, arrived a few days ago.
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I'm the "9" of the 90-9-1 rule (aka: mostly comments)
hope that counts
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What happened 2/12?
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you're not going to get banned for saying that, I would even agree. people get banned for being racist/chauvinist and then run off to cry about evil authoritarian censorship
I bring receipts just a couple days ago
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People getting sick and tide of Reddit. TBH I’m still salty over them killing 3rd party apps and I’m so glad they did because that drew the line for me, also fuck spez.
I'm more oxi clean of reddit myself
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I also broke free from Reddit. Hopefully in lemmy we are not limited to only post things that agree with moderators point of view.
For sure. There can also be a problem of too little moderation, though. There is a balance to be struck between censorship of opposing views and getting rid of off-topic spam.
For instance, there were a few regional subreddits that were obviously intended to be for thing like "Which restaurants are worth a 30 minute drive to go to" and "Come to my band's concert at the waterfront this weekend", but had turned into basically nothing but off-topic spam wars about national level political topics.
The mods refused to do anything about it, so I just left because 90+% of the content was stuff I didn't come to that subreddit to read. Keep that shit on r/politics.
