• Eldritch@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    No need to be of two Minds about it. If they want to play Vanguard hero in their own time with their own resources. I don’t particularly care. If they want to use funds donated by myself or others to fund and echo chamber for that end. That’s where the problem is.

    I’ve had the ban happy nature of the admins on the instance run a friend or two off. I can’t blame them, and didn’t try to stop them. No one likes to deal with that. Least of all the people doing it. It’s absolutely a bad book having it be the flagship instance.

    It’s common practice to defederate from poorly administered servers. The only thing that has generally kept Lemmy.ml from being included among that number. Is that they rarely wander out from their little vanguard. Because they would largely be downvoted to the point of it being useless for their ends.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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      It’s absolutely a bad book having it be the flagship instance.

      Yeah, I absolutely agree. I am generally pretty open minded, I thought the tankies were really neat when I first was poking around with Lemmy, it was only further experience and the censorship and total unlistening unreasonableness that turned me against them. Most people in the world are not that open minded. If there’s a network founded and operated by people who are hostile, communist, and clearly unhinged and irrational, throwing bans and pictures of pig shit around, most people are going to go to Bluesky and they’re going to think you’re kind of stupid for continuing to put up with this other network that’s for losers and not worth spending energy on.