lemmy.world had difficulty handling new account registration when I tried moving from Reddit in June 2023, so I tried to find/join other instances. People said “it doesn’t matter which instance you join.”

Oh it definitely mattered.

  • metallic_substance@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Are these dipshits still a problem around here? Since I joined, I’ve blocked hundreds of communities, instances, and users. I don’t see them anymore

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      3 days ago

      My first month on lemmy a mod on .ml sent me a death threat and banned me from a community for basically stating that given the option between Trump and Kamala I voted Kamala.

      So that was a fun interaction

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      3 days ago

      The ML admins are the developers and maintainers of Lemmy codebase and hosts of Join Lemmy. I have a feeling it’s gonna be real hard to get rid of them.

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      3 days ago

      I just recently got temp banned for .ml again for saying I didn’t like Stalin because of the purges and gulags and cult of personality dictatorship, so make of that what you will. Either that or just using the word tankie is treated as hate speech because it was the infamous “Reason: Rule 1” with no further context. I was actually having an enjoyable and possibly productive conversation about communist theory too, but apparently that’s not allowed.

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      How do you guys get so many negative interactions? I’ve been on Lemmy for more than a year and I haven’t blocked any community, instance or user. It’s still enjoyable. I see the occasional Russia / China shill who gets downvoted to hell and that’s it.