Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development

• AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And if you want instances where holocaust deniers turn their nose up and avoid, consider joining lemmygrad, lemmy.ml and hexbear!

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• mathemachristian@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its supposed to be tankie TROIKA 😤

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• person1@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can certainly see that Hexbear and the other two are very vocal and toxic here. Engaging in some discussion or getting my views challenged is fine, I’d rather not close myself in a bubble, but it’s sad that they would be so quick to insult and ban you. It does worry that they have some of the biggest communities. I wish I could say “oh well the protocol is neutral” but I think that with most OSS projects it matters tremendously who is at the helm; also, another poster outlined quite well that these instances seem to be the showcase for the system.

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  • peregrin5@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They are only big by number because they are some of the oldest instances. The number of actually active users is less than .world or .ee.

    They only seem more active because they are terminally online and have communities that are specifically designed to brigade threads when they don’t like what’s posted.

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• Ofiuco@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The roadmap contains a new feature for extended instance block, which also blocks all posts and comments from that instance’s users. If some feature is not implemented in Lemmy thats not out of malice, but because we really dont have time to work in everything that people ask for.

    github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5578

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  • 4n41y4no5@crazypeople.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh nooo people I disagree with!! Terrible

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I moved to PieFed before it was fully ready, and I've been able to personally defederate from lemmy.ml by blocking all users since I did. No admin approval required. That feature alone was worth it to me to put up with the pain of the platform not being ready yet.

    Since then, the platform has greatly improved, and now has many MANY features that Lemmy (and a few that even Reddit) lacks. For example the most recent additions are polls and post flairs. Which tbf Lemmy has plans to add, but features languish in its roadmap for multiple years at a time so I would not expect them anytime "soon". Tbf Rust is a difficult language to work with, but that's just all the more reason to love PieFed, written in Python that many more people can contribute to. Which is what has been allowing it to add new features literally weekly as of late.

    PieFed is extremely nice - come check it out! Make an account, and by the time you get through the setup wizard you will already have fallen in love with it.:-)

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