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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Looking to be censored when the last of our democracy finally gives way?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Lemmy.today, which I use as my home instance, is. Oregon.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/ can show others.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hi friend from the same instance!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/ isnt always correct, because it uses IPs, so anything behind the cloud flare will look like it's from the US, even if it's not.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Was just thinking I haven’t seen your instance in a while

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

yep, bout to hit the 2 year mark.

some stats

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Full URL for clicky goodness: https://discuss.online/

We welcome new users! We've got a signup process to keep out spam, but it's really basic. You just have to answer 3 questions and not have it be obviously AI slop. We're generally pretty quick about approving new users, and if we're not for some reason you can ping me, @[email protected] or @[email protected].

We've got a welcome thread to point you in the right direction if you're new to the discuss.online and/or the Fediverse: https://discuss.online/post/16318079. If chat is your thing, we've also got a chatroom at https://matrix.to/#/#online.discuss:discuss.online

Lastly I'll plug the [email protected] community that I help mod as well. I just posted the weekly How was your week in the US? thread and asked how many geese everyone thinks they could take on.

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

In the USA, Donald Trump knows how to reply to "hate speech", but he never censors freedom of expression, even if he doesn't agree with somebody's statement.

But in Europe, if anything doesn't fall in with their official line, they put it under the category of "hate speech" and "disinformation", and send it into oblivion.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

One of the first things Trump did as president this year was take away the White House press passes from journalists he disagreed with...

He has been denying free speech (anything against him) since day 1. The only time he likes free speech is when it degrades other people and allows him to push lies/misinformation to the public.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You’re wasting your time responding to this obvious troll.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If I get blocked, oh well 🤷. Who knows what could be the thing that opens up someone's eyes?

I have a lot of family members that I was pretty close to before they started being MAGA fans in the past year or 2. Maybe it's the optimist in me but I'd like to hope that people can realize how much widespread hate and damage Trump (and conservative media in general) is causing to the US.

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

The fact that the account is less than a day old was the primary clue that they’re just part of a troll campaign. Guess they’re invading Lemmy now too.

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

Oh damn fair enough I didn't look at their profile

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

truth.social is leaking

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

he never censors freedom of expression,

I know you're trolling, but I'm going to respond because this is dangerous misinformation. The Trump administration is making a point of suppressing free speech and free expression. They openly brag about revoking legal residency status and deporting people who dare to state political opinions that the administration doesn't like.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75720q9d7lo

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

Posts on discuss.online get federated over to lemmy instances ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yep, it runs on Lemmy also and federates just as you'd expect

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is a lemmy instance ? Where is it hosted from ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

My whole life is a lie!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

By Americans, For Americans*

*provided by hetzner

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The Mbin software federates with both Lemmy and Mastodon at once. The Interstellar app works for it (+ also PieFed, though the latter does not currently federate with Mastodon, only Lemmy and itself). The largest Mbin instance iirc is fedia.io. By default you see the "Threads" content shared with Lemmy, but clicking the top left icon and then choosing "Microblog" will show content from Mastodon.

The terminology can be quite confusing, especially on Mbin compared to Lemmy - e.g. Lemmy-style "Communities" on Mbin are called "Magazines". The sharing between Lemmy, Mbin Threads/Magazines, and PieFed is called the "Threadiverse", while the sharing between Mastodon and Mbin Microblog/People does not have a unique name iirc (though I don't use Mbin or any Mastodon or Microblogging so apologies if I am incorrect here), so it just uses the wider name "Fediverse", which also includes the Threadiverse inside of it as well. A wiki is in progress, looking for contributors. That community [email protected] has a ton of great reading material, as too does [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Can I open accounts on multiple instances ?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can! I registered my first account on ml, and moved to sdf, with a third on world as a backup. You can open one on every instance if you want, or more as individual instance rules permit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes. You're basically making a separate account on different servers, run by different people, which then share their content.

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

pancakes. please ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe on pancakes!

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

I fear that it's only a matter of time before sh.itjust.works is...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Aren't they in Quebec? They barely accept being part of Canada, I expect that nukes will flies before having Quebec joining US

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

GeekRoom.Tech hosted in Ashburn, Virginia, USA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@midwest.social is somewhere here in the Midwest 😉

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

The name itself is illusionary. Check out the location of the hosting. It's hosted in Germany, but of course focussing primarily on the midwest !!

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

As far as i know, yes

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