I’ve been on sh.itjust.works since day one of my Lemmy existence, because shit just works.
It also doesn’t overdo it with defeds (beehaw) and isn’t run by tankies (lemmy.ml) or nazis (exploding-heads).
I’ve been on sh.itjust.works since day one of my Lemmy existence, because shit just works.
It also doesn’t overdo it with defeds (beehaw) and isn’t run by tankies (lemmy.ml) or nazis (exploding-heads).
Underdark is still Act 1. You’re on your way to the Act ending, but not quite there.
I got accounts on lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works and kbin.social. I had one on .world in the beginning, but the performance wasn’t great. Probably too many users.
I also use kbin, never running out of content. But I’m also not hanging out on Lemmy all day long.
I’d take the lunch lady.
Not even gonna read there anymore. Any sort of traffic they get, anonymously or not, helps the company.
No, Beehaw users don’t see any content posted by any member of the cutoff instances. These servers might as well not exist, for Beehaw users.
Beehaw didn’t defederate because .world is a cesspool. There were a handful of idiots trolling, using .world accounts (and sh.itjust.works), and Beehaw cut contact until the mod tools are up to the task.
Yes, the behaviour of a few hurt a large number of people, but they knew no better way to solve it. It’s also not a permanent defed, just a bandaid fix until the tools are better.
My main problem is, that the community I started gets less exposure now. That would be fine, if it was just people on instances like lemmygrad, where people congregate with whom I won’t get along, anyway. But the beehaw people are not bad folks.
Heck, even an alt account of a tankie on a different instance might behave completely differently when they’re not associated with the tankie account (hence no peer pressure).
With how things stand right now, I can’t even do mod things remotely without bugging the community out, so while I personally am not tied to any instance, the community is, and right now, I’m hampered, too, whenever I wear the moderator hat.
I hope there’s gonna be solutions for this some day, that let us move instances around. Communities are the reason people don’t go elsewhere, it’s probably also the reason many redditors don’t leave that place.
They also defederated from sh.itjust.works, but I got a community to care for here, so I just made some “alts”.
I originally intended to uninstall RIF and only use (old) Reddit (with RES) on my browser at the end of June, but these additional changes make it look like they’re desperate for money, and old.reddit won’t stay alive for much longer, anyway.
So I bit the bullet, got settled on Lemmy and Mastodon and really like it.
The very idea behind the fediverse is the “old school internet” I experienced back in the late 90’s, when people were still idealistic and thought the net would bring us freedom. What happened instead was the commercialisation of everything, algorithms to optimise engagement and attention, data collection and sales, the global spread of outrage peddling and fake news, and ultimately, the total sellout of twitter and Reddit. Late stage capitalism.
I’m here to stay.
Definitely needed.