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lemmy.world has been acting very weird lately. Almost like they are the one and the only authority of Lemmy.
I moved to lemm.ee from lemmy.world after that whole hack thing a few weeks ago and it seems like lemmy.world has been going through some weird shit ever sense.
We knew it was you!
It's their instance, they are free to do as they wish to comply with their local regulations
But when it's a centralized social media who do what they want in there playform you guys complains about it
I personally never complained about piracy being removed from Reddit, it makes sense from a legal perspective.
The advantage of Lemmy is that all of the other instances still have that community.
Piracy subreddits still exist on Reddit. Lemmy.world admins are apparently blocking communities that even Reddit allows.
Reddit has lawyers that the Lemmy admins cannot afford.
Sounds like you're assuming there was some legal issue that triggered this community blocking? Lemmy.world admins did not receive any legal notices prior to this action, it was just their kneejerk response to a troll from another instance. You can view it yourself, browse to the post via !support@lemmy.world or see it directly https://lemmy.world/post/3175920
More like PEOPLE are acting like they're the only authority of Lemmy.
The whole point of Lemmy is that unlike Reddit, you can give middle fingers akimbo to the server and still participate.
It's not that difficult to jump ship.
"middle fingers akimbo" has been appreciated
Hexbear drove them mad.
Yeaβ¦ itβs time to boogie off this instance for a while before they turn into Reddit Jr.
I'd mind less if their own instance wasn't so broken.
Ye I think I need to start my own instance, That's the only way I can get away from bullshit like this
Quick and easy, self hosting for a while now.
https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy
thank
I've been on my own instance since I started using Lemmy a few months ago and it's amazing to just... do whatever I want.
You know, I agree that this is definitely the beauty of Lemmy's federated nature but I'm somewhat perplexed by statements like "I can do whatever I want". I mean for sure, in theory you definitely can, but were really being held back before? I just personally have never actually run up against the limits of my freedoms online and being unable to do something I want to do. I'm probably just super vanilla and boring I suppose. I guess the recent shit with Reddit is an example where I really was constricted, by virtue of no longer having the choice of mobile app to access the website through, but then, I just jumped ship to Lemmy. I can imagine I might run in to a situation where the admins of the instance I signed up to block a community I liked, but it's very rare that this is a community that I care about and when it is, there's almost always another server around I can make an account for and sign up to all the same communities as before. I guess in typing this I'm seeing that the answer is that, with your own instance you won't have to keep hopping, but I guess I just so rarely get inconvenienced by admin decisions that it's never seemed worth the trouble.
If it's not too prying, can I ask what is it you want to, and in practice really would do, that running your own instance has now allowed you? Not just theoretical but, like a real existing capability that you've gained and make use of regularly? It's appealing to me from a theoretical basis and sometimes the theory and principle alone is enough, but the effort barrier hasn't seemed worth it for the theoretical gains alone.