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I left Reddit because of bans, shadowbans, and powermods. A few weeks on Lemmy and we now have bans from powermods. This sucks.
Difference is you can choose not to be part of the instance
And then just go participate from the instance that got banned like nothing even happened
Difference 2 is it's not really powermodding. At least not from the way I personally understand powermodding. Imo powermodding is when a mod decides to get rid of content they personally just don't like.
In this case they got rid of a big risk to the instance itself, because, if someone decided to upload pirated content on here it would get federated to all instances that haven't blocked the one initially distributing such content. Like another user said on this topic, this could be compared to torrenting, only without the direct P2P distribution. The risk of course falls on the people hosting the instances.
Since they host these instances pretty much for free aside of donations, that are not a requirement, and the fact that, like nanometer said, you can just choose not to be part of the instance (and register to another instance), I wouldn't put blame on the admins of lemmy.world in this case.
Is that really the case though? They are saying they didn't want to risk legal troubles which sounds reasonable to me considering they're just your average people with a hobby.
Not every instance is good for every user or community. The Piracy communities have long been some of the biggest communities on here, however it's absolutely within the rights of the world admins to decide they don't want to support them? If you object, you don't need to throw a fuss about it. Just move yourself or your communities to an instance that's online with your viewpoints.
If you object to people expressing their displeasure, you don’t need to throw a fuss about it.
If you object to people objecting to people expressing their displeasure, you don't need to throw a fuss about it.
The crazy part about it is, that even if every instance blocked everyone, you could always host your own instance and I think if you host one just for yourself and maybe a few friends or something it probably wouldn't even cost a cent.
To be blunt, lemmy.world has always seemed to emulate reddit too much for my comfort, even in vetting registrations. 9/10 of the bad enlightened centrist takes I've seen here have come from lemmy.world users who are clearly reddit transplants.
Lemmy.world is the biggest lemmy instance, it makes sense that they attract everyone even those type of people. They don't understand the concept of distribution, of course they're gonna go where the number is largest. I wouldn't go as far as to say it's the admins fault for the people that went there.
"Though a 1/4 of a Burger may be bigger in their eyes than a 1/3 of that same Burger, the ingredients stay the same." - Winston Churchill
Just use an instance that isn't lemmy.world. that's the benefit of decentralization.
Besides, that server feels way too much like reddit, and not in a good way.
The difference is that now you have the option to go to another instance and still access the same content. It's not ideal but much better than yhe community being permanently gone.