Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That’s a 40% growth in about 12 hours!

Welcome new reddit expats!

  • Ongo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I thought it only defedded from instances that were being very explicitly racist and/or very poorly moderated. Those seemed like great decisions. What instances do you think shouldn’t have been defederated?

    • justanother_G_man@forum.basedcount.com
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      1 year ago

      I prefer to just block communities I don’t like rather than having an instance decide for me. There were votes here so it’s not like it was a sweeping decision, but I just block stuff I don’t like. I’m not going to ask an instance to block NSFW content, I will do that myself, same with content that is spammy or I find detestable.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        The thing is a lot of instances have multiple shitty communities.

        You can block one, but then the same edgelords make a new community on their instance for the same bigotry.

        Which leads users playing whack a mole.

        I took a look at your instance tho, and I 100% understand why you’d be upset at this instance for defederating.

    • scottywh@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Not to mention how easy it is to just sign up for an account on whatever de-federated instance if you really want to… Liftoff by default looks to me like it makes it very easy to use multiple I stance accounts all at the same time for posting, commenting, voting, etc