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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25427659

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Lol I love that SJW is listed as right wing for not explicitly being anticapitalist. Gave me a good laugh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I hadn't thought of political leanings when I signed up. I literally just googled for a list of instances, and the first instance that I successfully signed up with stuck. I tried .ml and .world first, but their signup pages were DoS'ed by the hoardes of redditors like myself fleeing when our apps died because of the api BS...

Can't say that I regret my instance though. When ml and blahaj are going off on each other, I'll grab some popcorn and sit back... But I've learned that you shouldn't engage with a .ml community, and the mods on .world are probably the most like the power hungry cunts on reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's quite some drama on [email protected] and [email protected] if you're into that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

And that is why I take drama-mean.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah that last joke pulls the entire meme together.

[–] spicytuna62 39 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Was it exploding heads?

If you go to that instance, it's gone. Once everyone defederated from them, I guess it was over. Good. They can keep that shit elsewhere.

[–] PugJesus 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Was it exploding heads?

Believe so. Fuck them though, they don't even deserve to have their name written in the meme.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

There was Wolfballs, which started out as a right-leaning free speech instance, but was obviously quickly overrun by trolls and fascists, so everyone defederated them and the owner decided to shut it down. As a result all the problematic people including the mods from Wolfballs moved to Exploding-Heads, which welcomed them with open arms despite also not being originally a pure right-wing instance. And yeah obviously they got defederated as well then...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I showed up right after the drama with their instance.

What was their deal?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They were nazis and had a shit ton of loli(pedophilia)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

It was nazi and had fucking loli shit on it. That made LITERALLY every instance defederate. Even the ones that were neutral said fuck you to them.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago

Lemmy OC? And interesting?! That's rare indeed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Well this game a few solid chuckles...

the money shot:

"not explicitly anti-capitalist" is the furthers right you can get on lemmy

Yas hehe

[–] Filthmontane 21 points 2 days ago

I sense no bias in this meme

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Good attempt!

Where does the "likes data" come from for SJW?

[–] PugJesus 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Whenever I see the admins post, it's always with charts and details that I don't generally see (or at least, don't generally notice) from other instances.

[–] danc4498 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For a second there I thought there was a social justice warrior instance.

[–] PugJesus 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

You have to write a paragraph about your chosen Social Justice class at signup. Social Justice Wizard best!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I'd rather be a Social Justice Warlock, where do I find my patron?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

At least at the start, the instance was mostly networking and sysadmin nerds. During reddit's APIocalypse, our admin started up the server and put up a detailed post about the hardware, infrastructure and benchmarking everything. Stuff like that is what drew me and many others to this instance.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

First time I realised it has these initials. Is that on purpose?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

My recollection of "the lore" is that the admin already owned "itjust.works" and thought "sh" would be a funny subdomain for hosting lemmy. I think the sjw initialism is just a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I suppose the fun starts trying to slot other instances in there.

So reply with an instance and thrash out it's place on the graph.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

SlrPnk.net is halfway between Dbzer0 and “left”.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Arguably dbzer0 would be a bit further towards the libertarian right, although still in the bottom left corner.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

feddit.uk - I won't comment as I'm biased.

[–] PugJesus 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Authright - has an Emperor

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Fair point.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Do what you want cause a pirate be free, YOU ARE A PIRATE

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Excellent! Although you might need to shift LW more fully into the blue if they decide to implement the Flat Earth proposal that they strongly tried to push a month ago, before as you say walking that back in response to the enormous outcry against it. Were they to continue though, that would radically shift the balance of everything across all of Lemmy if all of those community mods gave up and had to find new homes elsewhere.

[–] PugJesus 22 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Legitimately think that they simply did not think the proposal through. It was pretty nakedly an attempt to push back at radical echo-chamber communities, without understanding that rules cut both ways, and in the process of trying to justify and clarify it without being 'ideological', managed to just highlight how absurd the proposed rule was to begin with.

The two big problems with .world's admins is that they're very much amateurs (which is a hard thing to avoid in our scenario here), and that they, like many centrists, have trouble discerning where their ideology begins and ends. They feel the need to phrase things in 'fair' and non-discriminatory terms, but in doing so, often blunder into self-contradictory positions, because ultimately, discrimination (in the sense of discerning and marking) between views is what all rules are based on. The kind of "The law is the law" attitude that people who are accustomed to following, but not making, law, are prone to. One hopes that a mixture of experience and pushback will improve them, with time.

But yeah, had they implemented that, they'd go more auth and right, and I'd probably be packing up all my comms to go to another instance. Again.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm going to quote @[email protected] on their comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/14430767

This is like the third time LW tried to be front-and-center in deciding how conversations should happen on Lemmy. You are the most popular Lemmy instance and most content is on your instance. This isn’t an experimental safe space instance to dictate how social media should work. Please understand that any weirdly aggressive stances you take affects everyone.

[–] PugJesus 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

This isn’t an experimental safe space instance to dictate how social media should work. Please understand that any weirdly aggressive stances you take affects everyone.

Yeah, basically. Which is why the pushback is important, and, though it reflects a serious paucity of understanding, it's also good that they're willing to retract in response to pushback.

They're slow learners, and perhaps everyone is in a position of power, but we'll see if we can teach them.

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[–] Maroon 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why are these instances so big, but not others? Like if I made a public instance and allow people to join, would it become this big?

Also, where do .world instances fall on this map?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

do .world instances fall on this map?

In the middle?

[–] PugJesus 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Why are these instances so big, but not others? Like if I made a public instance and allow people to join, would it become this big?

Depends on a lot of factors. The big 3 are:

  1. Reliability/accessibility. These instances all have significant capacity, good uptime ratio, connection speed, etc. All of those things necessitate expenses, of course, though not necessarily massive expenses. I believe sh.itjust.works gets by with less than 10k per year.

  2. Administration. Some people want a light hand, others a heavy hand; some want minimal bias, others want to see anyone who disagrees get the boot. In all cases, an active and responsive admin team helps.

  3. Communities. Power users drive social media. How active initial users and communities are drives future growth.

Oh, and all of these instances are several years old, including being extant at the Great Exodus back in '23, which significantly boosted everyone's numbers.

Also, where do .world instances fall on this map?

Lemmy.world is in the center; other .world instances are probably similarly placed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I think it's even funnier that we hand out labels right at the ticket stand to lemmy and turn around to say that labeling people based on norms is bad.

Someone needs to make a comic, you can't even make this shit up. Sign up for your next stake burning at a server near you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Hey, I am not Right. I am anarchist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I'm just here for the paws.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm a chill guy, I lowkey don’t give a shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Based and not giving a shit pilled.

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