Comment on Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance

cloudless@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Navarian@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can’t speak for others, but my decision to stick with lemm.ee stemmed from seeing how active the owner is, the minimal defederation and the bot & moderation policies meaning there are minimal bots, and I’ve yet to currently see much spam issues, which is nice.

  Also helps that the owner Sunaurus is an active contributor to the Lemmy project as a whole, so we get patches and fixes relatively quickly.

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• SchizoDenji@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because it is more open and lenient in not defedereting and as a user i can choose which subs and instances to block.

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• MicroWave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Its admin @sunaurus@lemm.ee wrote all about it here: lemm.ee/post/26

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  • cloudless@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks. Looking at the admin’s profile, he seems to be very reasonable. I especially like this comment he made:

    “Not sure if I actually have to justify removing soviet and/or nazi symbolism, but I have lived my whole life in a country on the border of Russia. My country been ravaged by both Nazis and Soviets in very recent history. I want to be clear that while I think criticising capitalism is totally normal and necessary, I am also extremely aware of constant Kremlin propaganda. Propaganda which is spread both in their media, but also crucially in online channels. Propaganda which includes things like downplaying horrifying actions of the soviet union, portraying their “enemies” (the west) in the worst possible light, and mixing in soviet symbolism wherever possible. I have no intention of allowing anything which resembles this propaganda to be spread through lemm.ee. If banning offending users does not work, then further steps will definitely be taken.”

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    • Buffaloaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My country been ravaged by both Nazis and Soviets in very recent history.

      Poland?

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      • beltsin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Estonia I believe

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  • SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It says a significant chunk of their funding comes from users. Where does the other funding come from?

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    • jameseb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The admin made a post reporting on the finances.

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      • ReadyUser31@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What is github sponsorship? Are they advertising on that note instance?

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