There are instances that federate together as a single sort of entity.
So, are there other entities? Meaning, is there a group of Lemmy instances somewhere outside of the existing ones we see here?
And, how do I get there, and which one don’t have people from the USA?
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you’re better off not using lemmy at all then. I never really got the discrimination for the different instances anyway, it’s true that certain people tend to hang out on certain instances, but discounting everything just because of the link they chose when creating an account is dumb imo.
The problem isn’t the instances themselves. It’s the users. Most of them have accounts on multiple instances anyway.
I’m really not trying to be argumentative but I just think I need to find other friends—but I don’t plan to be homeless during the transition.
Lemmy is fine. The code is fine. But maybe you’re right.
But one this is for sure, I gotta go (from here).
as i see it, the point of lemmy and mastodon is the federation, so the infrastructure can be decentralized but the content on there isn’t. like other guy said, probably better to search for isolated forums for topics that you like. upside is that stalkers will have a way harder time tracking all of your online activity.
Yeah. I just want another federation.
And I’m not worried about stalkers on Lemmy. Admins and mods make it very impossible to stalk me since I have to get a new account every week lol. Frankly, if a person has an account over 6 months, I assume they are just part of the problem 🤪
I know admins can power trip, but i don’t believe that just so happens to be the case for every single instance you sign up for just because your political viewpoints are different, unless you’re incredibly confrontational about them or you’re a literal nazi fascist; which no one here likes, twitter would be a better place then.
For obvious reasons i don’t have access to comments on your previous accounts, but from what you said i would try re-evaluating whether it really is true that everyone else is the problem, and you’re 100% blameless.
I’m an anarchist. I believe the problems in the world at this moment originate almost entirely from the governments of the USA, Russia, and China. And anyone who is willing to simp for any of them isn’t worth being on the bottom of my shoe.
Early on, I used the same email on Lemmy.world, discuss.social, and lemmy.zip. I pissed off one of the mods from .world and all three accounts got deleted.
I don’t use multiple accounts all at once. Dogpiling is “big three” tactic. They just sit there gaining age until I need a new one. So totally unused accounts got deleted. You KNOW that means they share data.
That’s a problem for me. It should be for you. I just want… better people. (Not you specifically of course)
fwiw i agree, the internet could do less with propaganda from world superpowers. If what you’re saying is true, i’d just find an instance that does not listen to foreign admins regarding bans; and for users i’d just block ones you do not like. no need to isolate yourself from the community any further, we’re already plenty isolated from not being on the big social medias. quokk looks like a good place for you.
Don’t how how the lemmy census is, but unless the instance refers to a specific country like lemmy.ca or feddit.org i would imagine that the split between “big three” and other countries is roughly the same, regardless if they federate or not.
Quokk.au perm banned one of my accounts when a mod from sh.itjust.works complained about me being uncivil. What’s funny is I never really participated on quokk. So the admin on that instance banned me for someone else’s vague “uncivil” rule. I guess I understand the desire not to be an admin and have users on your server causing trouble. Especially if it’s one of the abusive admins.
The trouble with just participating on one instance though, is the users might be elsewhere. A large instance like .world (and ml) has more leverage than another instance and that is wrong.
So, there is no instance that won’t ban me eventually.
I can’t recall ever banning anyone because another instances mod said they were uncivil, most bans I’ve made have been for racism, misogyny or *phobia.
If you had received a temp ban from whatever instance your account was on at the time, PieFed has a design choice where they never expire on our end so it would look like a perm ban?
can’t have your cake and eat it too. the way federation works means bigger instances will always have more influence, but it’s a double edged sword. They cannot defederate from everything or it just turns into a normal centralized reddit knockoff, so the best thing to do is not to give in to their demands, if it gets bad enough the users will move; something else will become the next “flagship instance”.
nothing is exactly stopping you from jumping instances each time until you find someone that does not care for petty cross-site drama. username and comment history goes bust, but maybe that’s a good thing; less traceability.