The issue of using .zip already in your comment — it runs by the same people. Moronic decisions is not “if”, it’s “when”;
Already using voyager. It’s not the reason I had to migrate: on world some admin wrote to me directly, after I blocked his community (it was full of propaganda, doesn’t particularly matter, that why we have block button) and insisted to use lang filters if I “don’t like it” — that weird behavior aside I actually went and checked lang filters, they were broken. On top of that, apparently world decided to block some instances about piracy, which is not cool with me. On blahaj.zone mods heavily against downvotes and looks like will never ,add them to main instance. They will try to add 1:10 ratio as a test to (I forgor instance name), where dislike will “weight” 0.1 of like. Which is kinda stupid. And here on piefed you already know about issues.
“No ads” not really a problem — I use ublock on PC and patched aps on Android
People, well, they are people. They are the same everywhere tbh. Maybe currently they are mostly belong to one group (like politically for example), but like, that not a good thing — it just creates a bubble of that interest. As one of example — apperently my comment about linux was offensive and due to high amount of not so well educated linux users, they drown me in downvotes. That wouldn’t happen on reddit even with comment like that, cause there you have more realistic representation of linux users, which is like, 1:10. Living in a bubble is not cool (but you do you).
That being said, I’m not against fediverse in general, I’m just frustrated as same as OP, with instance admins who decided to shoot themselves in the foot.
You seem to imply that the admins of Lemmy.zip are morons - I have not heard this, can you point me to something to read in this regard? The Threadiverse tends to rake instance admins over the coals fairly regularly, so for me to NOT have heard ill of them yet, I took it as a good sign!
Sure, I was just covering all the major bases there!:-)
Speaking of, the major thing about the Fediverse is that after being banned, you CAN at least still join some other instance, or even ultimately spin one up on your own! (impossible on the likes of Reddit, X(hitter), Meta, etc.)
Btw if you did want to spin up your own instance, I’ve heard it strongly recommend that PieFed is far easier to set up and maintain than Lemmy. The preferences of its developer team don’t mean much when you have total control over what features you want to see deployed or not.:-P
I hope you find something you can enjoy. Don’t forget to heavily touch grass irl too - not instead of but in addition to online social media - as it is much more rewarding in the end.
Wait. Mods can see when you block their community? I block communities liberally because I am often on /all and just am not interested, and I had no idea literally anyone but me would know or care.
That being said, I’m not against fediverse in general, I’m just frustrated as same as OP, with instance admins who decided to shoot themselves in the foot.
Speaking of, the major thing about the Fediverse is that after being banned, you CAN at least still join some other instance, or even ultimately spin one up on your own! (impossible on the likes of Reddit, X(hitter), Meta, etc.)
Btw if you did want to spin up your own instance, I’ve heard it strongly recommend that PieFed is far easier to set up and maintain than Lemmy. The preferences of its developer team don’t mean much when you have total control over what features you want to see deployed or not.:-P
I hope you find something you can enjoy. Don’t forget to heavily touch grass irl too - not instead of but in addition to online social media - as it is much more rewarding in the end.
Wait. Mods can see when you block their community? I block communities liberally because I am often on /all and just am not interested, and I had no idea literally anyone but me would know or care.
No they can’t usually. I am an admin only my own instance and there is no such option.
Huh, then that makes the encounter this person had extra weird. Still, that’s good to know, TY!