I learned just recently that dbzer0 has a great piracy community that is blocked by lemmy.world . I’m not saying I’m looking to switch instances or anything, but it did get me wondering what else might be blocked by my instance that I wasn’t previously aware of.
While we’re at it, I’m curious what communities might notably be blocked on other instances as well. So we might as well just make this a question about what might be blocked by any particular instance, not just my instance.
So, what’s blocked on some instances that folks might not have realized is blocked?
I’ve been debating setting up my own instance for just me, but it’s not the easiest to set up, and I feel like storage will become an issue.
I think lw blocks lemm.ee/c/conservative but whether or not that’s a good sub is up to you.
Just had a look around. On the recent article about immigration, the second highest comment is a progressive questioning the education level of conservatives. So the block is not completely effective.
Personally I think it’s a terrible idea for people to be siloing themselves into bubbles where everyone agrees with them. In a democratic political system this cannot end well.
I don’t think it’s actually trying to block progressives from commenting. They’re trying to be an anti-silo.
Sounds great! As a moderate I would fit right in! Oh - except I’m not allowed to.
PS: to be clear, I mean I can’t do it with this account because it’s not federated AFAICT.
What do you mean? Did you get banned? The only ban I see on the modlog is you get banned from /Europe for racism.
Indeed, and I get the feeling that the point of your comment is not to ask any question but rather to propagate that smear even though you probably haven’t even looked into whether or not it was justified.
Or perhaps you have, and you can tell me (us) why it was?
Tbh, I think those exact mods banned me for the exact same thing. I haven’t gone looking.
Make accounts on 2-3 instances. It’s worth it.
That sounds exhausting switching between them.
Yeah for example I started on lemmy.world and then there was some defederation drama. So I made an account on lemmy.today because they don’t block any instances. Just to give me the entirety of the fediverse. Plus it’s good to have a backup in case a server goes down.
I think a lot of people start on Lemmy.world and lemmy.ml but then overtime switch to other instances they made alts on. I think it’s a cool way that things work and centralisation gets avoided.
I haven’t checked out Beehaw in a while, but I used to enjoy spending time there. Some people didn’t like it because of how heavily they curated their instance, but I really enjoyed how polite it was. It ultimately discouraged a lot of people from going there, which they saw as good, but most outsiders saw as bad.
As .world ramped up in volume, I had more and more to interact with here, and I ran out of time to be instance hopping so I haven’t checked what they’re up to lately.
Overall, blahaj seems to have done a better job doing something similar while not alienating people. But if you want to see a Lemmy instance that decided to take the route less taken, maybe give them a look.
Overall, blahaj seems to have done a better job doing something similar while not alienating people.
No. They’re quite good at alienating people, too. Especially when the admin self-admits to banning anyone she personally disagrees with.
Blahaj not alienating people? Did we miss the whole “ban everyone who doesn’t support drag, the anti-trans troll” saga?
No instance is going to be perfect, but instance admins are always going to set the house rules. I’m not going to say any more on the matter than I have only had good interactions with drag. I’m not trans, so I can’t speak to his effect on other trans people, but I believe the blahaj admins are. Even trans people aren’t going to always agree on everything, and that’s when it’s up to the admin to define what that line is with an issue.
While their decision doubtlessly pushed many away, I’m also sure they put a lot of thought into their decision on what they felt was good for their instance as a whole, and right or wrong, it’s their decision to make. Some people I’m sure love them more for the choice they made.
I listened to both sides and I think I see where both groups are coming from. I think blahaj did right based on what I understand their goals to be. Drag is one individual and anyone who didn’t like them could have simply blocked them and moved in with their lives, but so many had to confront them every time they popped up, which seemed like it violated their rules of respecting everyone.
I’m not arguing for or against blahaj, just your description of “not alienating people,” which is objectively false and you clearly agree.
And yeah; I don’t respect people who make a joke of other people’s existence. I don’t care what their motivation is, drag makes the rest of the community seem lesser for their trolling.
Ah, I understand now. My original intent was to say blahaj as a whole has been less alienating when compared to Beehaw. They have a pretty similar mission, but Beehaw has gotten itself pretty walled off from a good portion of the Fediverse to the point where they were talking about taking it somewhere else entirely.
Blahaj has done some things that people haven’t liked, but its actions have been more in line with its existence in a federated environment.
Beehaw is the best run instance on the fediverse no question. I generally like blahaj as well but it can get a bit rowdy lol
I took a moment to scroll Beehaw a bit after bringing it up. It’s largely how I remember it, but the place feels much more tense than before, but I can’t really fault them for that with the massive uptick in hate around much of the world.
If one wants a place like Beehaw, I agree there probably isn’t a much better one out there.
Yeah they feel rightfully under threat as a leader in the concept of “safe spaces” for queer and other underrepresented (and let’s be real: currently maligned) groups.
So much talk of Beehaw but still no sign of a link!
PS: or Blahaj, assuming it’s not the same thing
blahaj is an instance that federates with lemmy.world. So you have access to the content on there.
Check out !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone for example.
BeeHaw does not federate with lemmy.word due to moderation issues. If you want to access beehaw, I recommend making an alt account of a server like https://discuss.online/ or https://sopuli.xyz/
Thank you, I added links to my post as well. It totally slipped my mind.
Great! Thanks for the clarification.
You might consider making accounts on different instances because over my time here I’ve had to hop back and forth multiple times over update issues and server issues.
In LW you can’t see Beehaw. Haven’t been on beehaw in a while, but it has some really great people. I think Hexabear or whatever it’s called is blocked too. They are more negative, like reddit was when I left.
You can look at the federated instances in the stats tab on the LW main page. There are also some radical extreme Right instances like Brighton on that list. Most of the rest are some of the paraphilia instances and trolls.
If you’re talking about blocking specific communities, I’m not aware of any other major ones. Lemmy.world is the largest instance, so most likely to be targeted by legal threats, and run by volunteers, so not worth going to jail over.
Entire instance blocks are pretty common though. Ignoring spam instances, the commonly blocked ones would be Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and Hilarious Chaos (previously called Exploding Heads).
