I have to admit that I’ve got one foot outside of this part of the fediverse at all times.
With the amount of groupthink on Lemmy, I just feels like there’s a lingering threat at all times. Better step in line and not have any incorrect opinions or God help you everyone on your instance is going to get screwed over.
It’s downright impressive how many instances defederate from fbxl lotide and narwhal.city, considering the fact that both of those instances barely engage with any other instances in the first place since there aren’t that many users.
splinter@hilariouschaos.com 9 months ago
It is nice, and yes I completely agree with you, being antagonistic doesn’t help anything.
I think HC right now is a desirable instance to federate with, we are content generators (which very few instances are) and we’re not trying to fight anyone or piss anyone off on purpose. Majority of our content is not political at all either.
I think most of the instances that have de-federated us went by the “they’re just EH reincarnated” stigma and didn’t bother to look any further. I think that’s pretty silly, since we’re really not that despite many users having come from there.
We’re always going to be a bad fit with the “super safe space” instances and that’s fair enough, but my hope is we can play together with everyone else.