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Standalone Instance If Your Interested In Joining
We are NOT federated with the rest of lemmy The reason is safety issues when it comes to weirdos posting disgusting crap and it’s just chilling on your server.
Our admin team doesn’t want that liability.
One advantage with no federation is that we welcome you to post content you’ve created. Like memes or funny videos.
As long as you’re chill, posting in the appropriate community, we’re not going to lay the hammer on you. Or take down your post over dumb stuff.
Lastly, you should join our Instance if you feel your values align with ours. It’s important to note that we understand that at the end of the day, lemmy is just a hobby.
We don’t have a desire to be, we’ll, tyrants. People disagree, and we get that. Not everyone thinks the same or believes the same things. That’s just the truth.
We’re just regular people like anybody else and want a place where we can actually be ourselves and not walk on eggshells.
If you feel we might be a fit for you, feel free to sign up or message me with any questions.
Also, we understand the appeal that federation has for some folks. I’m not trying to push the idea that being standalone is better. If that’s not for you
We totally get that and hope you find a lemmy server that better suits your needs.
Thank you for your time
Less turning a blind eye than accepting that I don’t control what other people choose to talk about. Those offensive conversations you want to block from Lemmy are happening in real life all the time, around dinner tables in certain parts of the country, redneck bars, construction sites, even churches, etc. They happen on the internet too, and that is life. The world is fundamentally not a safe place.
I’m all for having some safe enclaves in the fediverse (safety enforced), but I’ve generally been comfortable in technically unsafe spaces like Usenet programming groups: they are usually civilized through being unattractive to crazies, but unmoderated, so there is occasional disruption. If a place is toxic (all crazy all the time) I don’t go there but others might choose to.
You were the one that said you wanted the fediverse to be safe for everyone, with “everyone” italicized. That’s not possible. Lemmy.world isn’t even safe for kids (it’s federated with lemmynsfw.com which is porn). And sooner or later, if there is universal safety enforcement, people will decide that toxicity is anything that they don’t agree with. First they came for the bigots, which is ok because nobody likes bigots. Then they’ll come for the Java programmers and fine, I won’t miss Java either. Then they’ll come for the vegans and hey wait, I’m not vegan myself but some of my friends are. Then they’ll come for me. You see how it goes.
So mostly I prefer to not have hall monitors everywhere trying to keep everything safe. Have them in a few places where they are wanted. The big culprit that gave us the toxic internet is the amplification of outrage by social media algorithms, i.e. bumping up whatever discussions have the most disagreement, most reactions, etc, in order to get more traffic and sell more ads. Usenet didn’t have that and it is better off without it. Lemmy has it but IMHO it should get rid of it. Just have chronological feeds, no sort by comments or by upvotes/downvotes. I have my default sort type set to “new” (chronological) and it’s a nicer and calmer surfing experience than having the latest viral whatever shoved at me nonstop.
See also “facebook demetricator” for a brilliant add-on along those lines.