Hi, I'm Dee.
I was browsing through the various instances to join up with because I was tired of all the downtime with lemmy.world and I wanted to start using Lemmy as it was intended (spreading accounts out among more instances). That, and Beehaw hasn't been quite as engaging since defederation with lemmy.world and other large instances (which is why I went back to the lemmy.world account in the first place). I get why they defederated and I support their decision, it just was an overall negative impact for me in my Beehaw experience since I was in so many other communities outside of Beehaw.
This instance seemed chill, it blocks Threads and exploding heads so that's a great first impression. There's a few more instances I'd like to see added to the block list but that's a good enough start for me to get comfy here. The low user count has made everything just run so much quicker than with lemmy.world and I can still enjoy the same communities.
Happy to have found this place that appears to be here for the long haul and I'm looking forward to getting to know the local instance community more!
Edit: Sorry for triggering the snowflakes in the comments and for them feeling the need to provide substantial proof for why so many other instances defederate from them by default.
@rikudou we're pretending this is the free and open internet, an alternative to censorship and nannying that drove most of us here 5+ years ago to get away from it.
For my part, I can't figure out why now people who want a curated, censored internet come to the wild west, then complain, then began breaking down the linkages between instances because of their individual sensitivities instead of going somewhere that already caters to coddling and enforcing thought regimentation.
It's not that hard to understand - people don't want to be called faggots and niggers and similar very "creative" stuff. It's not only stupid, it's also plain embarrassing. And if a whole instance exists pretty much for the purpose of going to other instances and childishly giggling at how they showed those normies by calling them the big bad words, well, that whole instance is gonna get blocked here.
Sure, this is free and open internet. You're free and open to spill your embarrassment wherever you want, just don't be surprised if my definition of free includes hate-speech-free.
Note that you're still free to spill your hatred on the rest of the Fediverse - if it will tolerate you, that is. Careful, your land of "free and open" might end up being only people like this.
@rikudou right, so those people can block other people. Why do you need to make that decision for them? And, you're in no way in favor of free speech:
"Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech."
― Noam Chomsky
The rules of this instance are clearly posted. It even mentions that if you don't agree with them, you should find another instance. I consider this discussion finished.
@rikudou are you still claiming to be a free speech advocate?
@rikudou i don't, because I'd like to know how you square your claim to free speech against an exception that makes it unfree.
Have you thought about this? What inspired you towards authoritarianism? Was it a troubled childhood?
@rikudou@lemmings.world @jeremiah@noagendasocial.com