You know, it’s like you’re walking through the forest, enjoying its beauty, and then you don’t notice how a hungry bear attacks you, even though you were warned about it.

What a shame, when the trap snaps it will be very painful…

  • oddlyqueer@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    Interesting. Didn’t know that this instance had that reputation. Is there anyone out there archiving and cataloguing removed posts / comments across instances? I’d be curious to see some data around this. Would be a fun NLP project to try to identify who might be running certain instances based on the ideological bent of their censorship interests. Could be fun to try to parse out state propagandists from the religious extremists, from the single-issue warriors, from the non-ideological power-trippers, etc.

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      To an extent. !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works !tankiejerk@piefed.social !tankiejerk@lemmy.world all document some. I don’t know that anyone is archiving en mass. It’s rather a moving target.

      It’s common enough that many, seeing someone posting from an ML automatically become irritated and combative. Which you can see here to an extent. Bad experiences with their instances and select users are pretty wide spread.

      As mentioned earlier, Lemmy got it’s start because it’s creators were so toxic they were banned from most other places. While many of us chose to leave reddit years ago as enshittification accelerated. Lemmy’s creators did it out of necessity. They couldn’t be kicked out of a place they ran, no matter how toxically they behave. They have been defederated /cut off from a decent chunk of the fediverse still. The only reason you were able to post here, is because Lemmy.ml being the flagship server/ Cess pool playground of the software’s developers. Is given some leeway. That and they didn’t brigade from that server specifically. They used the other two, hex and grad which are widely defederated because of it.

        • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          It’s the great feature of the service.You can find an instance to suit your tastes.There are plenty more general instances out there. instances that are focused on certain regions or languages. There’s even a few out there dedicated to specific political ideologies. Such as the one you’re on, there’s even an instance that’s generally anarchist. Though that doesn’t mean you need to be on one that matches your ideology. I’m an anarchist and don’t have an account on the anarchist instances. I can still interact with them and their communities if I want.

          In fact, the only thing you need to look at is what you currently interact with. And if the server you choose still federates with where it comes from. This isn’t my first server either. Communities on hexbear and lemmygrad are going to be inaccessible on most other instances. But most of the rest are all fully federated.