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• themachine@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Totally ignorant question from me - why not?

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  • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re tankies. As in, supports the CCP kind of tankies.

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    • Alto@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      More specifically, "Tiananmen Square didn't happen and if it did it's good" kind of tankies.

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  • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are pretty controversial for a lot of reasons, but I think the main thing in your case is that they are very heavy handed in their moderation, an odd place to go when trying to avoid censors

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    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly the reason i switched from lemmy.ml to feddit.uk

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  • Stache_@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah when I first made my account back in June, i was under the impression that it didnt matter what community you made an account on. They all are linked together. Over time it seems like some groups dont like other groups and defederate from them. Lemmy.ml was one if the biggest groups at the time, so I joined it

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  • TheVillageGuy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Create your own instance now you still can

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lemmy.ml, one of the larger instances and the original? Seems good enough reason to me.

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  • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ignoring lemmy.ml specific reasons, using a federated platform just to join the largest host is very very silly.

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, sure. But I certainly wouldn’t be confused why someone did.

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• TheVillageGuy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @happybadger Create your own instance while you still can. If you're interested in hosting large images pick mbin instead of Lemmy and I can help you bypass filesize restrictions

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  • laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “while you still can”

    That is ominous. Creating my own instance has been a “someday” project for me. Is there something to be worried about?

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    • TheVillageGuy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you start your own instance, you're likely also going to want to be the homebase of your community. The longer you wait, the more users will then have to move to your community. That's not a deal breaker, of course.

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    • TheVillageGuy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you want to be your own community's host, you'll also want to start your own community on your instance. The longer you wait, the more users will have to move from there current to the new community. We started ours on an existing server (and it still exists) but we realized early that it would not give us enough control over the posted content (specifically filesize limitations) So we quickly started our own instance.

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