Well, if I’m honest, I couldn’t give the tiniest shit about whatever happens to them as the Lemmyverse grows, and I suppose being banned from most communities on those two instances is proof that my though processes are still sound 🙂
I’m just genuinely wondering where those people got brainwashed - or brainwashed themselves - to such an extent. It truly is fascinating to witness people who are so far off basic realities and common sense and plain don’t seem to realize how nonsensical what they claim is. That’s kind of why I keep reading their tripe. It never ceases to amaze me.
Think of instances as servers. Unlike Reddit, which is - as far as you’re concerned anyway - one server and one company running that server, Lemmy is a collection of small and not-so-small servers run by individual people to organizations, that synchronize one another’s contents.
But some servers are run by people with certain convictions, or certain moral codes, or certain rules, and they refuse to synchronize with certain other servers. For example, many servers that carry outrageous porn aren’t synchronized by other servers, so the local users of those servers aren’t subjected to the non-synchronized content.
Those servers that aren’t synchronized by other servers are said to be defederated by those other servers.
The ultra-weirdo Stalinist instances are defederated by a lot of other, more reasonable instances for a variety of reasons. For instance, Sopuli - which is run by a Finn - doesn’t federate Lemmygrad and Hexbear because the Stalinist shit really isn’t up the Finns’ alley for obvious historical reasons.
You’re already on lemm.ee which is the second largest instance on the fediverse and generally tries as much as possible not to defederate from anyone, even these tankie instances
SDF - the one I’m on - is one of the few that won’t defederate any other instance on the ground that you can choose what to block yourself. That’s why I chose it. The flipside of SDF is that it’s regularly dog slow, and goes down more often that I would like. But I have other accounts on other instances when that happens. But those instances won’t show everything SDF shows.
I just wanted to get away from reddit, but i am starting to think Lemmy is both a little too complicated, and lacks the amount of users that made reddit interesting.
In general, you don’t need to worry about instances, provided you’re part of a decent one. You are, so you’re good. Stop worrying about it and enjoy the content.
Like in a general sense or in the “on going issue” sense?
In general, think of instances like email providers, you sign up on one and you can access all the content from the other providers
But your provider can block or blacklist it’s server from accepting content/users/voting from another provider. This is known as “defederation”. It’s intended to be used against toxic instances like lemmy.ml, Hexbear or Lemmygrad similarly to how email providers will filter another email providers email if it’s gained a rep for spam
It’s growing, but outside sentiment of Lemmy being a “Tankie hideout” is also growing and that could ultimately harm that growth and maybe even reverse it if it gets bad enough.
Honestly, I would say Lemmy’s tankie reputation is greatly reduced compared to what it originally was. I remember back in '23, I absolutely refused any Lemmy instance because the tankie reputation was immense (I moved in on Kbin - RIP).
When capitalism has ruined most of the life we’ve lived thus far, one takes to a different understanding of history and intent when rereading it while under the yoke of massive social problems.
Capitalism is totally broken and is now hurting most of the world much more than it does any good at this point. And it probably needs to go and be replaced by something better. But that something better isn’t the communist regimes of yesteryear (and today, in the case of the DPKR). That’s fucking crazy. And those who think it’s not fucking crazy need to read Solzhenitsyn.
The solution to the capitalist problem lies elsewhere. I freely admit I don’t know what the solution is, but it sure isn’t the fantasy rosy view of comrade Stalin and Dear Leader Kim peddled by the crazies on Lemmygrad and Hexbear.
Don’t let extreme capitalist craziness push you into the arms of extreme communist craziness.
I’m aware that Stalin’s, Mao’s or Kim’s regimes aren’t what Marx had in mind, and communism has nobler ends. But here’s the thing: each time pure, fair and kind communism was tried on any society, it descended into dictatorship very quickly and without fail.
So it doesn’t matter how noble the idea of communism is: it’s simply incompatible with humanity, because human beings can’t resist greed, the urge to grab power and hurt others. Therefore, let’s not try it again becasue we all know how it’s going to work out.
Communists get intervened by capitalists and fascists.
Dictatorships on the other hand don’t descend, it’s always their main purpose, and the use of leftist ideas is just empty marketing to gather support from the population
Well, if I’m honest, I couldn’t give the tiniest shit about whatever happens to them as the Lemmyverse grows, and I suppose being banned from most communities on those two instances is proof that my though processes are still sound 🙂
I’m just genuinely wondering where those people got brainwashed - or brainwashed themselves - to such an extent. It truly is fascinating to witness people who are so far off basic realities and common sense and plain don’t seem to realize how nonsensical what they claim is. That’s kind of why I keep reading their tripe. It never ceases to amaze me.
Can someone explain this whole instances thing for me like i was stupid?
Sorry I misunderstood your question.
Think of instances as servers. Unlike Reddit, which is - as far as you’re concerned anyway - one server and one company running that server, Lemmy is a collection of small and not-so-small servers run by individual people to organizations, that synchronize one another’s contents.
But some servers are run by people with certain convictions, or certain moral codes, or certain rules, and they refuse to synchronize with certain other servers. For example, many servers that carry outrageous porn aren’t synchronized by other servers, so the local users of those servers aren’t subjected to the non-synchronized content.
Those servers that aren’t synchronized by other servers are said to be defederated by those other servers.
The ultra-weirdo Stalinist instances are defederated by a lot of other, more reasonable instances for a variety of reasons. For instance, Sopuli - which is run by a Finn - doesn’t federate Lemmygrad and Hexbear because the Stalinist shit really isn’t up the Finns’ alley for obvious historical reasons.
So which instance should i host my profile on if i don’t want anyone else to decide which instances are blocked for me?
You’re already on lemm.ee which is the second largest instance on the fediverse and generally tries as much as possible not to defederate from anyone, even these tankie instances
SDF - the one I’m on - is one of the few that won’t defederate any other instance on the ground that you can choose what to block yourself. That’s why I chose it. The flipside of SDF is that it’s regularly dog slow, and goes down more often that I would like. But I have other accounts on other instances when that happens. But those instances won’t show everything SDF shows.
…or you can host your own!
I am not really interested in becoming an IT guy.
I just wanted to get away from reddit, but i am starting to think Lemmy is both a little too complicated, and lacks the amount of users that made reddit interesting.
In general, you don’t need to worry about instances, provided you’re part of a decent one. You are, so you’re good. Stop worrying about it and enjoy the content.
Ha, yeah it’s not for everyone.
Like in a general sense or in the “on going issue” sense?
In general, think of instances like email providers, you sign up on one and you can access all the content from the other providers
But your provider can block or blacklist it’s server from accepting content/users/voting from another provider. This is known as “defederation”. It’s intended to be used against toxic instances like lemmy.ml, Hexbear or Lemmygrad similarly to how email providers will filter another email providers email if it’s gained a rep for spam
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It’s growing, but outside sentiment of Lemmy being a “Tankie hideout” is also growing and that could ultimately harm that growth and maybe even reverse it if it gets bad enough.
I’ve already seen such comments out in the wild
Honestly, I would say Lemmy’s tankie reputation is greatly reduced compared to what it originally was. I remember back in '23, I absolutely refused any Lemmy instance because the tankie reputation was immense (I moved in on Kbin - RIP).
When capitalism has ruined most of the life we’ve lived thus far, one takes to a different understanding of history and intent when rereading it while under the yoke of massive social problems.
so do you just blame capitalism for stalin and mao and kim?
Capitalism is totally broken and is now hurting most of the world much more than it does any good at this point. And it probably needs to go and be replaced by something better. But that something better isn’t the communist regimes of yesteryear (and today, in the case of the DPKR). That’s fucking crazy. And those who think it’s not fucking crazy need to read Solzhenitsyn.
The solution to the capitalist problem lies elsewhere. I freely admit I don’t know what the solution is, but it sure isn’t the fantasy rosy view of comrade Stalin and Dear Leader Kim peddled by the crazies on Lemmygrad and Hexbear.
Don’t let extreme capitalist craziness push you into the arms of extreme communist craziness.
Tbh it’s also false to connect those regimes to communism
I’m aware that Stalin’s, Mao’s or Kim’s regimes aren’t what Marx had in mind, and communism has nobler ends. But here’s the thing: each time pure, fair and kind communism was tried on any society, it descended into dictatorship very quickly and without fail.
So it doesn’t matter how noble the idea of communism is: it’s simply incompatible with humanity, because human beings can’t resist greed, the urge to grab power and hurt others. Therefore, let’s not try it again becasue we all know how it’s going to work out.
Communists get intervened by capitalists and fascists.
Dictatorships on the other hand don’t descend, it’s always their main purpose, and the use of leftist ideas is just empty marketing to gather support from the population