I've only just seen this.

Thank you for running this instance! Until it got blocked from the UK (I understand the reasons but it made it difficult to tell whether it was up or down, and is also the reason I've only just seen this post) it was my favourite place to host general communities.

Unless there's any update on this I will begin to migrate my communities elsewhere (probably db0).

Looks like the instance went down a bit earlier than expected

Thank you for your kind words, the feelings are mutual - you were definitely one of the bright sides on Lemmy.

I currently need a break from Lemmy but if I ever come back, your instance is definitely the one I'll be joining.

Thank you as well, you were always helpful on Matrix and I really appreciate it.

Sad but true. Matches everything I've seen and complained about over the last ~3 years. It looked so promising at first and then....turned into everything you just said. Lol, we should compare block/ban lists sometime - there's probably a LOT of overlap. Are you at doomprepper.com by chance?

Honestly, the Fediverse needs a schism if it's going to survive beyond being a haven for people that are too toxic to be platformed anywhere else. Not so much a split based on ideology but on pushing the extremist, antisocial, violent, troll people to the fringe instances so the sane people might actually stick around.

I thought we might be seeing the first steps of that with LW taking a stand against .nexus, but they've since re-fedded and I'm not at all confident they're going to cut off dbzer0 and nexus which are two of the worst widely federated instances for platforming violent crazies (grad and hexbear are worse but they're pretty widely blocked, and .ml is sadly too big for most instances to cut off).

It's totally possible to block and ban and defederate enough to make this a nice place, but it's a LOT of never-ending, thankless work as I'm sure you've noticed. The problem is few admins want to actually do that (and some are part of the problem), so the default experience for someone who isn't a crazy, violent antisocial extremist nutjob (i.e. most people) makes them want to nope out immediately.

My instance is pretty well curated to get rid of the propaganda, violent rhetoric, and other undesirable aspects,

Yep, and things around here keep getting even more crazy. Lemmy has devolved into practically every post to be about how xxxx president is destroying the world and xxxx should be president instead, or xxxx needs to be shot and hung publically. Regardless of post topic. Any disagreement, over anything, devolves into "nazi!!" and "fascist!" name calling. Regardless of post topic. lol

Lemmy and Piefed have become the haven of nerdy antisocial trolls who got banned from reddit for being too extremist and antisocial. lol

So I fired up my own instance (not using this username) and right away just banned, blocked, filtered basically everything/everyone that annoys me about the fediverse. And locked it down to be single user.

And finally I can enjoy Lemmy again. Lemmy will stop growing and die off eventually. Too many people come here because of the great idea that it is, only to find out that it's full of groupthink trolls. Then leave. I have seen so many good posters just give up and leave.

Well damn. Just seeing this. I basically walked away for the same reasons a year ago, though mine's still online because I got talked into keeping Tesseract alive and needed an instance I could test against. You were one of the original Rexodous instances and probably helped me many times in the group chat getting mine up and going in the early days.

My instance is pretty well curated to get rid of the propaganda, violent rhetoric, and other undesirable aspects, so if you wanna pop in, you're free to sign up on mine (hell, I'd even let you be an admin). And since it's my own test instance (more or less anyway), if you wanna keep playing around with some of your fedi tools, you're welcome to. If not, and you never wanna see the place ever again, believe me, I totally get that.

Regardless, thanks for trying to build something better with us and sorry it didn't work out. I share the same frustrations you're expressing here.

@rikudou@lemmings.world would think about it. Haven’t heard anything since.

Any updates?

Thank you!

PLEASE!

Thanks!

The closest I found to the same vibe are, Lemmy.today, lemmy.zip, lemmy.wtf, and lemmy.dbzer0.com. Those four are pretty much the "live and let live" instances that don't try to control what you say or read.

Bummer... thank you for keeping it going while you did.

Anyone have suggestions on where to go... all opinions appreciated; even the snarky ones....

rikudou…

Legend.

Thank you!! See you on another instance in a happy future!

lemmy.today is the only other free speech instance besides Lemmings.world that I could find. Great admins too. They are cool with whatever, as long as you're not posting illegal stuff (US-based).

This is awesome news! Hopefully they let you do it.

I have offered to take over Lemmings.world, to preserve all the posts and users.

I happened to notice that earlier this morning too, and I got a good chuckle out of it. I do wonder what people are thinking as they down vote.

I especially appreciate the guy who got the downvoted for just acknowledging my point that mods shouldn't ban people for saying something they disagree with.

Thank you!

Thanks for the kind words!

Looking at your downvotes, people are proving your theory. Lemmy is so extreme about stuff... lol

I upvoted ya tho! :)

It's been a really great instance! Thank you for your service to the fediverse!

But my real issue is pretty much that Lemmy has almost no other content besides political one

Yep, this is pretty annoying. I posted some general news to our news sub, and some people got mad because they didn't think it was "news." Meaning, to them, if it's not political, it's not news. I personally barely read political news. lol

What? What "stealthy propaganda" have I posted?

Awh no, that's me, I'm lemming 😭 well, at least that's good opportunity to try piefed now.