Wrong instance I guess. Yeah, Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad and hexbear are toxic as hell, but there are really nice instances out there. I chose dbzer0 and it’s great here. We also have many interesting threads about locally hosted FOSS AI. db0 himself is quite involved in this topic, he’s the initial author of things like AI Horde. Basically everyone on db0 I’ve seen acknowledges the active genocide that’s being conducted by the Israeli fascists government. Other topics on the instance are anarchism and of course piracy.
Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
Tja@programming.dev 1 day agoAnd moving to a different, more decentralized shithole?
Lemmy has the same power tripping admins and mods, just more of them and each with a new and unique bias. You don’t hate AI? Ban. You acknowledge certain genocide? Ban. You made fun of my typo? Ban.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
Which is great, but for “news” there seems to be one major community and even then there’s like 3 comments on the typical post. Any “news” communities on other instances have zero.
I have very popular hobbies (football, formula1, to name a few) and there is no community for them. Just not enough users.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s exactly why more people need to leave Reddit and other corporate social media platforms
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
Yes, they need, but for “normies” there’s little reason to, and you have the first mover penalty.
Asetru@feddit.org 1 day ago
You did not make fun of my typo? Believe it or not, also ban.
Tja@programming.dev 23 hours ago
We have the best commenters. Because of ban.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
Public modlogs and federation help fight this.
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
Helps document this, does little to fight it.
BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
As a user from @programming.dev you should know the importance of documentation, and the log being easy to read should help the users to fight it themselves. As in by making their own communities/instances as needed
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
As a user of programming.dev I know that 99% of users don’t read the documentation and just go for whatever is easiest / less effort.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Unlike the reddit, you can always make your own completed instance and host your own complete communities and nobody will ever ban you.
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
Same as subreddits. The problem is most communities are on .lm and .world, and already established.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Again, the point is that nobody can ever stop you from running a community as you see fit, unlike reddit, which easily ban you and your community for any or no reason. And if your community is run well and the other has indeed power-trippin mods, the people will come to yours, as has happened multiple times before. So no, it’s not the same shithole, unless you make one.
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
Not the same shithole, a more decentralized one.
And if shitty moderation would mean people leave, reddit wouldn’t have any users. Alas…