I’ve slowly become familiar with lemmy and learned the things like blahajj is an ally of trans but hides downvotes and kbin shows how you vote to others etcetc. i don’t even know what hexbear is but hear it’s ideologically wonky.
Lots of Lemmy instances basically have some decent aspects, but then something about them is a total dealbreaker.
I’ve started looking at moderation histories when coming across content removed by moderators and am now able to distinguish instances where ideologies not aligned with their admins get censored. I first noticed it when checking why certain posts were removed on Lemmy.ml and had to research lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don’t want. I had a run in with a drama on Lemmy.world and curiously checked their mod log to realize that they actually quite often remove comments that don’t match their ideology (along with finding controversial historical actions of .world).
So after all this getting to know instances involved in lemmy, you know which one has no weird dealbreaker attributes that I know of? I just realized tonight which one it is…
sh.itjust.works
So cheers everyone.
Admins and Mods here you are doing great. Community, you are doing great too. grats on being the best instance
hexbear is but hear it’s ideologically wonky.
Understatement of the year LMAO
lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don’t want.
Uh nah, they’re tankies, they’re authoritarian communists essentially
uh I just picked lemmy.ml pretty randomly when I moved from Reddit, though I specifically picked it over lemmygrad because I’d heard lemmygrad was full of tankies. personally, I’m a left libertarian. I’m not auth at all.
I think you might be overestimating how much a user’s home lemmy indicates their ideology.
.ml is a tankie instance not because of the bulk of the users, I do not judge any user, .ml or otherwise, until I have seen them or seen evidence of them commenting Tankie ideology or defending it.
.ml is deemed a tankie instance because the admins and many of the mods not only are hardcore tankies themselves but also enforce the ideology throughout their instance via admin/mod action
.ml is the most subtle of the Tankie Triad and because they host some official Lemmy support comms often get treated with “kid gloves” by the other instances and don’t get defed’d from like the rest of the tankie triad does (Hexbear and Lemmygrad)
Checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works if you want to see more
Actually, because the .ml admins block that comm so you can’t see it, you’ll need to use this link through another instance: https://lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
Hey now, get down offa your soapbox cm0002! Don’t let your passion derail the thread now…
<3
No, it’s definitely full of tankies. I got banned for calling someone out for saying, “You have to give Donald Trump credit for brokering peace in Israel” about a week or so ago (I just followed-up with them yesterday after Israel, shockingly, shattered that ceasefire, and I’ve been ignored).
Maybe not all of the mods/admins, but enough that someone will ban you for going against the Russian narrative.
There’s heavy handed moderation in .ml communities that people hold big grudges about, and that’s mostly about it.
State socialists, if you like. It’s an oxymoron, but some still seem to choose it.
They’re “Free slaves”
Doublethink is required to actually digest their rhetoric.
I get indigestion every time I try. I guess I’m allergic to doublethink…
they’re authoritarian communists essentially
With an utterly broken sense of what is or isn’t communism or socialism. So many of them still going to bat for Russia, which has objectively not been socialist since the wall fell, and arguably long before that.
All votes are public on lemmy, no matter what instance. It’s how federation works.
There’s at least one server that uses dummy accounts for vote federation to keep the voters anonymous.
if you could link a source on that I’m interested.
Well, damn. I remember a comment where someone mentioned they’d modified their server fork to create a dummy account for each poster and use that when federating votes, and also said they planned to submit a pull request with the feature to the main repository, but I couldn’t find anything when I looked for it. I’ve searched through my upvoted and saved comments as well as the issues and pull requests of several fediverse platforms but had zero luck.
I remember it coming up in response to either this drama or when the Lemmy devs asked if votes should be fully public last year, but the related threads had nothing either. Maybe I hallucinated the whole thing!
Kate below responded with this, https://piefed.social/post/205362 is that it? Sounds exactly like what you said.
Yes, that’s it!
It might have been on .ml and gotten deleted maybe? Idk, but thank you for looking, it does sound like a good feature.
Lemm.ee is great too. It’s just… there. And I love it
Zip as well. We’re just…exists.
I know yous as the instance that’s a little broken in the UK
Yet for some reason works through a client but not via the website. But yes, alas the UK, I knew it well
Its great. I definitely got lucky when i randomly picked it back during the migration.
Shit just works, it’s in the name.
Shhhh it just works
I’m still new but enjoying dbzer0. I heard of it because someone said that lemmy.world blocks its pirate community, so of course I had to sign up there immediately.
This is also why I’m here instead of on .world
I started on .world when I first learned about Lemmy, but recently found dbzer0 and realized I finally found my people.
I chose it for the clever URL not knowing much when I first came to lemmy. Happy circumstance that it ended up being a solid choice. :)
Cheers to the mods and admins for making this a great place.
Love it too, but I don’t understand why they didn’t go with shit.just.works, unless of course just.works was already taken (wouldn’t be surprised). Or maybe it’s actually supposed to be “sh, it just works”?
It is my understanding of history that The_Dude had the domain itjust.works, and when choosing a subdomain for the Lemmy instance, some absolute genius suggested “sh”.
TIL we have Lebowski to thank for this instance.
I think it does have several ways of being read, deliberately so. I saw someone explaining it as some kind of programmer in-joke as well.
Maybe. Sh is an
unpopularuncommonly used shell, though many scripts are made sh compatible for wide compatibilityHuh?
https://www.tecmint.com/different-types-of-linux-shells/
The Bash Shell, or simply “Bash“, stands for “Bourne Again SHell“. It’s an enhancement of the original Bourne Shell (sh) and was introduced in 1989 by Brian Fox.
Over the years, Bash has become one of the most popular and widely used command-line interpreters on many Linux distributions and macOS (until Catalina, after which it was replaced by zsh).
Yes. Bash is descended from sh, and will run sh scripts, but it isn’t sh
Oh. Thank you, I just thought the sh was the file extension used for bash, did not realize it was the precursor.
Linux uses “magic numbers” to determine file types, extensions are just for people who like them and MS Windows
For shell scripts the magic number is ‘#!’ and is always followed by the path to the shell that interprets the script type (eg the first line might be ‘#!/bin/bash’)
I might be misremembering but I think I read somewhere that they already had the itjust.works domain.
It’s because this place is run by TheDude. As we all know: TheDude abides.
The Canadian lemmy instance lemmy.ca is pretty cool. (Though sh.itjust.works is also Canadian)
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They put up with my ass here, so that must mean it’s great, right?
Right?
Not sure if fishing for compliments on your great ass. 🤔
I think you have the superior derriere.
Mon cul dit merci
That ass in the dictionary. It’s got definition.
Some of us are here because of your ass
Wait, really?
Really.
That’s. I don’t even know what to say. Kinda stunned tbh
It’s a chill instance. 10/10 admins!
Here is where I started, here my I be burried. Love the ethos, love the mods, love the stability! (Great job @TheDude@sh.itjust.works).
Also, SJWBot still makes me laugh every time I see it.
I don’t think it would be fair to credit sh.it just.works as the only instance with no dealbreaker, but it has served me very well ever since the reddit api changes.
tru. most of the ones mentioned here ive never seen anything negative about (tho havent checked all their mod logs). yeah maybe to say ‘best’ is less accurate than ‘among the handful that are the best’ (or mouthful if one has no hands)
The instance admin commented on rules a while back: “Number one rule is to not make us ban you”. And I think that tends to curate a userbase that are able to behave themselves without needing a defined set of rules to live by. Rules are one thing, but if you need common sense spelled out for you, you’re probably not the kind of user I need/want around anyway.
sopuli.xyz and feddit.org are also pretty decent IMO.
My only requirements for an instance are:
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It works
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It’s not run by or full of fascists
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It’s furry
There were two choices. Now there is one. Thankfully the other one only fails item 1.
But this instance is cool, too. And db0.
Db0 is pretty fucking dope ngl. Their piracy megathread alone brings them over the top. The lack of censorship is just icing on the cake.
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