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[–] silvercove@lemdro.id 132 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Also lemmy.world is not the most stable instance and experiences a lot of downtime. My user experience got a lot better after I moved out of lemmy.world.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It experiences a lot of downtime because the alt right kids who got defederated keep using 4chans ddos tool to bring it down...

It's not going down from normal user load.

[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If only people knew how hard the staff was working to improve things and keep it up.

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[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 104 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Sucks but if Lemmy.World is gonna be the "face" of Lemmy it's probably best to keep the shadier sides of the fediverse out. Just to keep the damn lawyer trolls off our back.

Plus it keeps the "uninitiated normies" out of the Piracy instance. At least until they know.

[–] Freeanotherday@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Don't you all love democracy?

Let's vote on who is the face of the fediverse.

xi-vote

hexbear-retro

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Freeanotherday@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here's our actual logo.

hexbear-chapochat

My obvious bias aside it is a banger logo.

It comes in lots off different flavors.

hexbear-lesbian hexbear-non-binary hexbear-trans :hexbear-bi-2 hexbear-gay-pride

hexbear-posadist hexbear-pride hexbear sicko-hexbear

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They will never be the face because they're always down.

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (8 children)

FWIW this is one of the most frequent communities I see while browsing. I don't mind it but it's definitely a bad look if they want lemmy.world to appeal to the everyman.

I've noticed a lot more "normie" content in the past few weeks so it definitely seems like the site is attracting more than just techy people now.

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hot take: .world and others banning/blocking /c/ is better for the fediverse and for piracy. It means less eyes on piracy discussions and incentivizes users to spread out to other instances instead of just all using .world.

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[–] vidumec@lemm.ee 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

i feel like blocking of instances leads to worse echo chambers than subreddits themselves. We gonna have bubbles of federation networks that don't federate with each other. E.g. lefties, righties, "dark web" illegal shit, kinky shit, and instances that federate with all of them will be blocked by other instances because "use my blacklist or get defederated". This is gonna lead to hell for users having to create fifty accounts for each bubble. Aint nobody got time for that.

i wish it remained a user's option to block/unblock content they don't/do want to see. Each instance could provide their "recommended" default list of enabled instances, and user can go and enable others, like how NSFW toggle works. Maybe group instances into categories with tags or something, like "porn", "memes", "tankies", "nazis", "warez", etc

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We're gonna need a Lemmy client that can log into multiple accounts at the same time and display a combined feed of allof those accounts...

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Liftoff has been doing that for A while

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

Holy fucking shit they're blocking piracy? What a bunch of losers. Get off the anti-corporate platform built on copyleft principles if you have a problem with piracy.

[–] tails__miles_prower@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The losers are commenting on this site as well.

https://hexbear.net/post/317675

Transphobia? That's cool with them. Treating food workers like shit? Also fine. But watch a copy of a movie? "Horrible theft". There are people dying over preventable causes due to patents that aren't even held by the creators. I hate liberals

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[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Facilitating Piracy no matter how you put it is wrong and illegal, it is wrong and illegal to support people who do it.

Remember Netizen, when you're pirating Disney, you're downloading communism! programming-communism

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"You wouldn't download a communism"

A would download & 3D print both communism & Disney, then watch them fight

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[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Lemmy.world is turning vanilla. They closed the shrooms community too!

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[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Where is the piracy? (Asking for a friend.)

[–] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] yukichigai@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I think lemmy.world is about to be rudely made aware of how many pirates were on their site.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Might help lighten their load.

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[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago

They're not making any money from this anyway

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only thing that makes data useful to humanity is the fact that it can be copied - not copying data is unethical.

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[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org 29 points 1 year ago

Welcome fellow pirate!

[–] c1177johuk@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Lemmy.world blocked the dbzer0 instance? I guess it's time to switch then...

[–] agoseris@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They didn't block the whole instance, just the specific piracy community.

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Anyone know of a good/current breakdown of the available instances? I landed on LW during the reddit exodus, and so far I've been happy here - haven't felt the itch to relapse back to reddit or the need to find a new home on the fed... even this piracy thing isn't a deal breaker for me personally since I don't really engage in that content anyway - but on principle I dislike that it's been blocked.

Despite all that, I wouldn't mind poking my head around just to see what's up, and maybe find my nice little niche, but I don't know the best way to actually go about navigating the fed.

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[–] olizet@lemmy.works 24 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I have created my own instance. With blackjack! And hookers, err, NSFW.

I found a cheap VPS and the easy_deploy script from git, that's how it started. And for 10 €/month I'll keep it going with a user count of 1.

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[–] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 21 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Any Lemmy instance list which shows communities that have been defed by each instances? Should help new users make better choices.

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[–] Millie@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've begun blocking their communities in my accounts and I plan to defederate from them when i get home. Fuck em. Place is infested with exploding heads anyway.

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[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh…well I know what I’m about to do then. If I wanted some cunt to have unrestricted control over the content I see I would have stayed with Reddit and that pigboy spez.

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