Me, who didn't join one of the huge instances, instead hosting his own instance: "Why is everyone complaining? Lol."
It's not 100% the same, but you can block communities completely and they won't show up anywhere.
Ah yes. I remember that one, too. Then my comment is BS.
Unfortunately, yes. The entire world is a shitshow right now and it's really sad. We could've come so far by now.
I too lean left and I absolutely agree that the constant bashing from both sides is really annoying. This also doesn't apply to american politics only (I'm from Germany).
To me, free and open source software can't be "evil" or political. If the Lemmy devs put something in again that grinds my gears, I can just fork it and remove whatever they put in place. If your app is open source, I could also totally fork it and add Lemmy support, if I wanted to.
Also, how do you know that every single accepted pull request to open source libraries, projects, operating systems, etc. that you may be using has been made by someone who's compatible with your political and world view?
I like KBin. I think, Ernest and all contributers do god's work. But for me, Lemmy is the more polished product which - in my opinion - looks better, as well. At least of right now. I'm not disregarding the alpha state of the software. I'm a developer myself and I respect Ernest for what he's done so far.
I'd like to stress that I'm absolutely AGAINST the political views of the Lemmy developers. When I first wanted to set up my instance, I chose KBin for the exact reasons you describe here. But I made up my mind and went with Lemmy instead.
You're right, we're a big Fediverse community and I think this KBin vs. Lemmy "hate" won't bring us any further. We should be working on a nice environment and don't care at all who uses what. Defederation should be put in place temporarily for instances which are suspected to have a ton of bot signups going on and also for instances that struggle to moderate their content / userbase. No matter what Fediverse software they run.
Twix bars come in pairs. He's able to tell which of the bars it was.
Don't get what's funny about that, though. Typical 4chan moment.
No wonder if everyone is just heading to the same few instances.
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Removing means things are only flagged as deleted and can be restored. Purging means things are actually deleted.
Banning is denying someone access to a community or instance, temporarily or permanently.
Got a couple more users than that. social.fossware.space