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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The most common one will likely be Hexbear. Nasty little group of trolls they are.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I dislike any with downvotes off, the worst take can have 20 downvotes 5 upvotes, will make it seem reasonable/common if you only see 5 upvotes

[–] RamblingPanda 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I blocked yiffit.net pretty early on, so I guess that? I'm not interested in the content they post, so it was easier to block the entire instance rather than each random furry porn community that would pop up onto c/all. No shame or anything against them though, just not my thing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well the instance is getting archived soon, so there won't be anything from there for much longer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well the instance is getting archived soon, so there won't be anything from there for much longer.

Huh. Any idea why?

I've always been proud of the Fediverse that it has a home for the furry community. I think it speaks to the flexibility of the platform and the live and let live vibe of the folks we have attracted.

Their thing isn't my thing, but folks seemed nice, and seemed to be enjoying themselves.

They didn't strike me as particularly vulnerable to community drama.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wander the instance owner has just decided to focus on the mastodon instance instead and permanently archive the lemmy instance.

Not really anything drama related just more up keep.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Makes sense. I'm glad to hear that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Good to know. Is pawb.social the instance to block now then to achieve the same goal?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I don't really dislike the furry instances, I just don't want to see their content. They don't actively annoy me the way others do.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

More and more .world bothers me. If it’s not top on my list now, it will be soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Over time it, its admins, and its users, have shifted more and more right wing. Their admins are very clearly biased against left leaning content while tolerating more right leaning content. If it flies in America they’re generally ok with it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

That bit where you can't remove content when it's blatantly false, their mods "have" to tolerate crap like flat earth? Way overstepping on mod power

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world. Full of capatilism lovers and it's annoying. Plus a lot of American propaganda too. Would block it but it's the biggest instance so shrugs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've seen a lot of opposition for the competitors of capital but not necessarily support for capital itself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

In my experience with hexbear and the like, "pro capitaist" just means they aren't posting 100% negativity about the US or west in general.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world. i serioisly despise their de-federating from inatances.

Well, any other instance censuring other ones just because (insert your cause here), so not really anything against world in itself.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Very biased here but I think defederating from an instance filled with genocide apologia makes sense. But that’s the only reason I know of for them defederating from instances

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Its still censorship and I don't like it...

But the good of the fediverse is that I can spin my instance and don't deal with that!

And I love it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Personally, I still haven't started judging users by the instance that they made their profile on. Unless there's right wing instances but in that case I'm guessing they're de-federated from my current experience. I prefer to go by what I'm reading from an individual user or the vibe in a particular community. When you browse instances on the join page, there's no cliff notes on the turf wars between them. So a lot of users are signing up based on the written description.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Fortunately you will never know what happens when you walk into the likes of [email protected] (especially from a post appearing in All) and dare to reply to a comment, because that entire instance has been defederated from yours.

It kept happening to so many other people, that eventually the admins simply gave up on it. Which is a good thing imho, bc I for one almost left the Threadiverse entirely based on such interactions - I don't need that noise in my life:-) - and therefore can guess that many others actually did (plus they say exactly that, over on Reddit).

You can read some of the drama here if you like:-).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everyone is saying lemmygrad, but I think those pedo instances are way worse. I don't know any of the exact domain names (nor that want to know 🤮) or how many they are, only heard of their existence.

lemmygrad would rank behind all those pedo instances, followed by hexbear, and a portion of lemmy.ml (non political parts of lemmy.ml is still tolerable)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are "pedo" instances?

I have so many questions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

According to many instance admins, there are a lot.

I mean, I was checking the blocklists to see which instances block tankie instances, and I noticed that there are some on the list with the "pedo" name in it. I don't know what's on there and I don't want to look, but I bet its illegal images, or users defending pedophilia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The one run by someone who banned me from it for making a joke despite never even hearing of his instance, or the 3 people that use it before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What was the joke? You got me curious now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If it means anything, I thought it was a little funny. And you got a ban for it? Makes the guy who called me humorless yesterday in what seemed like a shaming attempt seem tame. People seem to have forgotten humor is a demographic matter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It was actually quite funny 😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

idk the one that banned me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I have no idea, honestly. I don't pay attention or mingle between them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

NSFW. I was glad I could block it. Not everyone wants to look at porn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I despise the fediverse as a whole. Just a cesspool of echo chambers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Me too, I'd never make a fediverse account.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's just the internet.