The Threadiverse may have too many tankies and not enough active communities, but with Reddit becoming greedier and greedier by the day, it's the only viable alternative.
Blocking .ml, Hexbear, and Lemmygrad solves a lot of the tankie problem, but it could certainly still use more people to support non-news or politics communities.
Your contribution to the Fediverse and Lemmy was bigger than many users. You will be missed.
Who knows what the future has in store for us. Perhaps you'll be compelled to return to Lemmy in the future, perhaps not. Either way, I wish you well.
Oh bummer, that's me....
Thanks for letting me know, I'll end my recurring donation when it goes down.
I understand the lack of political nuance, and everything having to be hard right or hard left, but that's the way we have been programmed, and how our algorithms are programmed, something we have to accept because I honestly don't see the path to changing it.
Thank you for the support so far!
Well, the only path I see is to not participate which is what I did when Facebook let me down years ago, then the same with Reddit and now Lemmy.
Ah. I just signed up! But that's just how the fediverse goes.
Thanks for offering the instance! I know hosting must be a crazy huge project!
Do you have another recommendation for an instance that won't ban me for saying something like "I think marijuana use should be strictly regulated."
There should be several? E.g. sopuli?
Can't say I have one, as that was pretty much the niche (freedom of speech where you're allowed to say anything as long as it's not illegal or hurting other people) I tried to fill because it was empty. Haven't really checked newer instances, so don't know if there's one with similar mindset.
Well, I appreciate your effort.
You really were banned on other instances for saying marijuana use should be strictly regulated?
Not whole Lemmy instances, but I got banned from the r/millennials subreddit for that about a year ago. I really wasn't even being that antagonistic about it. I was just sharing scholarly peer reviewed articles with people that refused to believe that marijuana might have some negative side effects. Didn't even get a warning. Boom, perma ban.
Sigh. Yeah, that's not right to get banned for having a different opinion than a moderator.
Mastodon a bit better, at least less tankies.
tankies
I tried out Mastodon for a bit, I had a different experience.
Unfortunately there really just isn't much of a space online for a political moderate. If you aren't true hard-line right or true hard-line left then there is just no opportunity for dialog online.
Ain't that the truth! As someone who's center-left for the most part, I feel that every day.
But my real issue is pretty much that Lemmy has almost no other content besides political one - I'm fine not fitting in with the online masses politically but I kinda can't find anything else to do on here.
I wouldn't even consider myself "center left". I'm like 95% straight down the line liberal.
But because I believe crazy things like "maybe some abortions are actually ethically dubious", and "numerous good rigorous studies have demonstrated that religion is generally socially good and healthy actually", and "a well regulated capitalism is a good economic system actually."
So, you know, I'm a Nazi sympathiser.
Where's PapaSkwat supposed to post his stealthy propaganda now?!?
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