I’ve slowly become familiar with lemmy and learned the things like blahajj is an ally of trans but hides downvotes and kbin shows how you vote to others etcetc. i don’t even know what hexbear is but hear it’s ideologically wonky.

Lots of Lemmy instances basically have some decent aspects, but then something about them is a total dealbreaker.

I’ve started looking at moderation histories when coming across content removed by moderators and am now able to distinguish instances where ideologies not aligned with their admins get censored. I first noticed it when checking why certain posts were removed on Lemmy.ml and had to research lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don’t want. I had a run in with a drama on Lemmy.world and curiously checked their mod log to realize that they actually quite often remove comments that don’t match their ideology (along with finding controversial historical actions of .world).

So after all this getting to know instances involved in lemmy, you know which one has no weird dealbreaker attributes that I know of? I just realized tonight which one it is…

sh.itjust.works

So cheers everyone.

Admins and Mods here you are doing great. Community, you are doing great too. grats on being the best instance

  • @[email protected]
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    43 months ago

    Lol I got banned from their NCD instance for saying the US wouldn’t allow Ukraine to join NATO.

    Bunch of reddit migrant cowards

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    Here is where I started, here my I be burried. Love the ethos, love the mods, love the stability! (Great job @[email protected]).

    Also, SJWBot still makes me laugh every time I see it.

  • southsamurai
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    They put up with my ass here, so that must mean it’s great, right?

    Right?

  • @[email protected]
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    I chose it for the clever URL not knowing much when I first came to lemmy. Happy circumstance that it ended up being a solid choice. :)

    Cheers to the mods and admins for making this a great place.

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      43 months ago

      Love it too, but I don’t understand why they didn’t go with shit.just.works, unless of course just.works was already taken (wouldn’t be surprised). Or maybe it’s actually supposed to be “sh, it just works”?

      • @[email protected]
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        I think it does have several ways of being read, deliberately so. I saw someone explaining it as some kind of programmer in-joke as well.

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          Maybe. Sh is an unpopular uncommonly used shell, though many scripts are made sh compatible for wide compatibility

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                Oh. Thank you, I just thought the sh was the file extension used for bash, did not realize it was the precursor.

                • @[email protected]
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                  23 months ago

                  Linux uses “magic numbers” to determine file types, extensions are just for people who like them and MS Windows

                  For shell scripts the magic number is ‘#!’ and is always followed by the path to the shell that interprets the script type (eg the first line might be ‘#!/bin/bash’)

      • @[email protected]
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        I might be misremembering but I think I read somewhere that they already had the itjust.works domain.

      • Captain Aggravated
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        It is my understanding of history that The_Dude had the domain itjust.works, and when choosing a subdomain for the Lemmy instance, some absolute genius suggested “sh”.

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    hexbear is but hear it’s ideologically wonky.

    Understatement of the year LMAO

    lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don’t want.

    Uh nah, they’re tankies, they’re authoritarian communists essentially

    • @[email protected]
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      153 months ago

      uh I just picked lemmy.ml pretty randomly when I moved from Reddit, though I specifically picked it over lemmygrad because I’d heard lemmygrad was full of tankies. personally, I’m a left libertarian. I’m not auth at all.

      I think you might be overestimating how much a user’s home lemmy indicates their ideology.

      • @[email protected]
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        There’s heavy handed moderation in .ml communities that people hold big grudges about, and that’s mostly about it.

      • @[email protected]
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        No, it’s definitely full of tankies. I got banned for calling someone out for saying, “You have to give Donald Trump credit for brokering peace in Israel” about a week or so ago (I just followed-up with them yesterday after Israel, shockingly, shattered that ceasefire, and I’ve been ignored).

        Maybe not all of the mods/admins, but enough that someone will ban you for going against the Russian narrative.

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        .ml is a tankie instance not because of the bulk of the users, I do not judge any user, .ml or otherwise, until I have seen them or seen evidence of them commenting Tankie ideology or defending it.

        .ml is deemed a tankie instance because the admins and many of the mods not only are hardcore tankies themselves but also enforce the ideology throughout their instance via admin/mod action

        .ml is the most subtle of the Tankie Triad and because they host some official Lemmy support comms often get treated with “kid gloves” by the other instances and don’t get defed’d from like the rest of the tankie triad does (Hexbear and Lemmygrad)

        Checkout [email protected] if you want to see more

        Actually, because the .ml admins block that comm so you can’t see it, you’ll need to use this link through another instance: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

        • @[email protected]
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          13 months ago

          Hey now, get down offa your soapbox cm0002! Don’t let your passion derail the thread now…

          <3

    • @[email protected]
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      they’re authoritarian communists essentially

      With an utterly broken sense of what is or isn’t communism or socialism. So many of them still going to bat for Russia, which has objectively not been socialist since the wall fell, and arguably long before that.

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      State socialists, if you like. It’s an oxymoron, but some still seem to choose it.

    • @[email protected]
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      63 months ago

      I started on .world when I first learned about Lemmy, but recently found dbzer0 and realized I finally found my people.

    • Stop Forgetting It
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      I’m still new but enjoying dbzer0. I heard of it because someone said that lemmy.world blocks its pirate community, so of course I had to sign up there immediately.

  • Sixty
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    I think some guy on reddit told me this was the best Canadian instance. Glad I’m here, they were right.