Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits (edit: bans are being undone)
Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits (edit: bans are being undone)
This includes some porn subreddits as well as subreddits like /r/Drugs. Apparently due to being "unmoderated", but some were not. What are your thoughts?
Edit: apparently also subreddits like /r/transgender_surgeries are banned too. Definitely feels politically motivated. Edit 2: seems like at least some (?) bans are being undone, like the above mentioned ones.
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As someone on lemmy who had never had to pick an instance before, it's not that hard. The instances have descriptions similar to subreddits. You just pick one that sounds friendly. The problem is lack of content diversity. I'm still on reddit for niche topics, some of which are actually not that niche.
It was confusing for me.
Day 1 ‐ "What's an instance? Which one is the main one?"
"There is no main one."
"Which one is the biggest?"
"Well, Lemmy.World is the biggest, but you're not supposed to pick..."
"I picked Lemmy.World."
Hello I'm very new. Why not Lemmy.World?
The idea being that reddit is one centralized service, with one "instance" and therefore if Spez says fuck you, you don't have much recoarse.
Whereas on Lemmy, there's many instances. So if the crowd spreads out evenly, no single instance gets too big, and therefore too powerful.
If the instance owner of Lemmy.world tells me to go fuck myself, I can tell him to go fuck themself. I can just go to lemm.ee or sht.jstworks (or however they spell it), or I could even interact with Lemmy from another service entirely. I could go to mbin, or piefed. Actually I have accounts on both that I don't use.
After picking Lemmy.World innitially I tried a few others, but didn't see the need to switch. Mostly I'm looking for a good stable instance that isn't going anywhere. Which Lemmy.World fills those boxes.
But that doesn't mean other people are wrong with what I've said. I appriciate all the people on other instances because choice makes monopolies disappear.
I'm sorry, I misinterpreted you saying "I chose world" as a negative thing.
I'm also on World and I like it a lot!
It was important to me to find a place that was similar enough to reddit to let my transition be easier. I've been on reddit for like 14 years and I just wanted an alternative that is close to what I knew.
I like world a lot, but in general I like the whole idea of the Fediverse.
Well, it's not the instance itself that I'm playing up as a negative. It's my reasoning without hearing any other arguement on the subject before making my decision. Which is pretty much how I made that choice. I wanted the default Lemmy. Well, there is no default. So I picked the biggest because it was the biggest, and therefore the closest thing to a default.
And a lot of people here don't like the fact that was how my decision making process went due to not knowing what a fediverse was. I STILL wouldn't say I'm proficient at using peertube. I "get" it, but I'd still say I'm right back to not knowing which instance to sign up for. Especially since on peertube it matters a lot more.
I'm also still trying to learn all this stuff. I've never even heard of Peertube.
Imagine youtube.....except it's a broken disfunctional mess with no content.
Incredible
For sure, I've always said that for the most part it doesn't really matter. Make an account on anyone of them and if you don't align with that instance in the long run you can just hop to a different one.
I did the hop for mastodon but that was mostly because I learned an instance can set a higher character limit and I absolutely hate fucking threads of tweets.
confusion comes from not knowing if youll get all content, most give you all content
Yeah but it will also influence your all feed, which is the main way of finding content when there's no specific community for your interests.
Or sometimes you run into the propaganda instances/users if you pick wrong.
It becomes a hassle and we know normal people don't want to even try.
"I picked Lemmy.World."
For me, it was kbin.social - but kbin and lemmy didn't play well together when I joined (and now it's in its current state). Then I picked lemmy.world - and they went down one day due to the influx of users. Then I picked sh.itjust.works and I've been happy ever since. I'll be staying here until the day I spin up my own instance.
However, if they become regulars, I think they eventually find communities they’d rather identify with.
One of us...