Just like Facebook, Friendica also has a sort of activity center where you can see all previous notifications. It was ~2 years ago when I first discovered Lemmy. Back then, .ml was the most active instance, with Beehaw on the rise as well. I remember I started by posting in non-political communities at first, and nothing bad happened. But the moment I started to show them how brainwashed I was by Western Imperialist propaganda (sic), they immediately resorted to downvoting all my posts and comments like crazy - be them political or not. Below there's a screenshot with my beloved Russian Government shill living somewhere in the West, Yogthos gave me a downvote (dislike) to a post I did in a test community. Don't even know why they bothered, since neither Lemmy and especially Friendica do not have imaginary points for activities on posts and comments. But there's that, lol.

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[–] 8 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Admins have mentioned in the past a fear of retaliation/loss of support if they defed from .ml unfortunately :(

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    What support? They cant even release a proper update to their software in years despite taking so much money in donations.

    Everyone should cancel and boycott all donations to those losers.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Theoretical support, say if they wish to do a pull request for a feature, or a bug report - the concern being if they defed .ml that the bug report/pull request might get closed without review because of it.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    they should consider piefed than.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I am on their piefed instance, actually. They just dont want to alienate their userbase by shutting down their original instance.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, is it the same guys running the Piefed?

    I will be moving on from everything Lemmy associated. I don't want to be connected to those wannabe fascists in any capacity. I just don't use social media enough to care right now. I'll browse Lemmy a couple times a day, when I am in the bathroom or waiting in a line or whatever, but it rarely gets much more out of me than a spare minute here and there, so I haven't really cared enough to put time and energy into decided where I am making the jump to.

    Maybe I just swap over to the Piefed instance and be done with it.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, its running on the same physical hardware even, which is owned by the devs.

    There are a few pains with switching over, like all the Lemmy apps adding incomplete support for piefed and moving on, and there not being any piefed focused apps yet, but i fully switched awhile ago.

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