Your case almost reads like satire. So extreme. Another reason to not miss reddit and its excessive gamification among with other terrible features. You make redditors look like zombies. No offense.

It’s the way a Telegram bots deliver the links. See response above.

It’s a Telegram bot that filters top rated articles in news.ycombinator and it links them like that. You can click the ‘comments’ link and see for yourself.

Thanks for your answer.

I understand, I assume it was during all that backlash against Lemmy and the devs, when even r/LemmyMigration mods created r/KbinMigration and closed that one due to the devs political affiliation and moderation policy.

Lemmygrad doesn’t seem to be a very friendly instance unless you have those specific political loyalties, and it seems self-isolating as well to an extent, I just want to foster a culture of not letting anyone control what you see or what you can say, and also a culture of accountability and feedback. I just think thats what makes communities alive and good.

I understand (and it’s something kind of ingrained in the Lemmy logic itself) this idea that you have to just join an instance taking into account things like politics. But I like the idea of having more neutral spaces, for example if you see why some users like your instance, they perceive it as an “apolitical”, “chill” place with a good technical leadership.

As you say it’s a personal conviction, maybe you thought your own instance should reflect your values and not federate with those that you don’t like. But right now, don’t you think that essentially mean limiting the access to the information? It’s not “big deal”, yes, they can create another account, but why? Why is it so needed?

I think you could perfectly run the instance and let everybody block what they don’t want to see, and moderate on individual basis until circumstances require otherwise.

The cultural defeat is so strong that people here are equating transparent and responsible leadership with corporate governance, lol. As if volunteer or small-project admins couldn’t be serious or good.

I haven’t claimed to be silenced by anyone at the moment. I’m just tired of like 10 people stating the obvious “join other instance” as if I didn’t know it beforehand and said I was thinking of doing that same thing since my very first post; or stating that I shouldn’t be demanding anything from the admins (not even reasons or transparency?)

I don’t think I’m being aggressive at all, I do think this community is way to defensive about any criticism to this particular measure, and I think it is due to a deeply ingrained censorship culture that sites like Reddit and Facebook groups greatly normalized in the internet.

So tldr “stfu and gtfo”? I can get outta here and, been saying it from the beginning, I probably will, but I won’t be silent about it.

That’s why I made this post. Want to see transparency on why they blocked an instance. Honestly if the guys running this want Reddit 2 with all the oversanitization I think I’m going to set my main acc on another instance.

Yes I surely know it’s not “a big deal” and I already said I will leave on my post.

But I won’t be silent about it. This is about the culture of the platform itself.

This instance has been receiving a lot of newcomers like me, and to me this is not OK. It is not OK to let the admins decide the content you’ll receive.

If instances keep defederating from each other, you’re fostering a culture of censorship and isolation where admins decide over users.

Enjoy your echo chamber / tyranny as any other subreddit where mods did what they wanted with you.

Culture is more important than software.

Yeah, that’s why I don’t like much how they are using this place to repost memes or tweets. It’s not content I really like, a written thought like yours will always be more genuine and personalized.

You have to look for it as !“community”@“instance” it works pretty well on desktop, not sure if it’s as good in Jerboa. No need to create accounts in other instances. If people from your instance have already interacted with such communities you’ll be able to look it up using just some characters in the name. Hope this helps. Try using your instance website if Jerboa doesn’t work.

Lol there are useful products on those ads sometimes, but they choose the most bullshit product to show in that example, and, oh god, the timing, fucking scoundrels!

No offense, and I’ve seen several people requesting porn, but to me that kind of lowers the level or seriousness of a community. I’m OK if a platforms allows NSFW content, but there’s a difference between actively browsing for porn and getting spam to your account. Porn is a very distracting stuff with addiction potential.

To me the best thing about forums, reddit, lemmy, etc. is the aggregation of general human knowledge, and it’s better if you don’t have to swim over a load of attention-grabbing content for it.

Not overloaded with porn. Reddit is full of bots and porn accs. Not the greatest issue ofc

Thank you so much!

I plan to open an instance focused on Latin America communities and topics, if anybody else have similar ideas and we can join together, hit me up!

It doesn’t even shows everything. In my experience the integrated Lemmy search engine was better for subscribing to an specific online community that I already knew the name for, but feddit.de wasn’t showing anything at all.