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.
Have you considered not actively promoting harming other users?
@rikudou where did i actively promote harming other users, and how are you defining harm?
I didn't mean you specifically. I'm not particularly fond of people being called niggers, faggots and other similar slurs. One of those was from a moderator of the instance, so it was an officially endorsed action by that instance.
The other I wanted to contact first, until I noticed in the profile of the admin that they use similar slurs and sentiments in their bio.
What are we even pretending here? Those people came here (unprompted I might add) and just for shit and giggles started calling people names because they knew they'll get a reaction. Well, they got their reaction. If it was an action of an individual, I would just ban them but given the fact that it was the instance admins, I thought it safe to block the whole instance.
You can defederate, block, censor, banish, and cover your ears to words you dislike. Or you can have the intellectually & morally stronger argument.
The latter is much effective and long lasting
I don't care about words, I care about what the people want to say with their words.
Agreed, despite the shitposting (fun), if there's a better position that doesn't require my children abused and my people murdered, that sounds worth considering.
I would be fine with Lincoln's approach rather than TND if possible.