Reading through it, I’m not seeing much in favor of ATP. It basically says ATP will never be decentralised. What exactly are the points you’re trying to make here?

And because there are still so many people who are willing to run instances for fun/as a hobby, they are effectively pricing their own work at zero dollars

Isn’t that a major point? If there are many people willing AND HAPPY to run it for free, presumably because they’re getting something intangible out of it, why not leave it to them?

Yeah, but you’re like the community directory, you know everything 😂

These sort of comments always make me wonder who recognises my nick. A ranking of ‘user-recognition’ would be fun. Though obviously impractical.

To be fair I was replying to a thread that said LW/ML are equal and something about fascism in LW.

I think you may have misread the thread, since I don’t see anything in the comments above yours saying that.

I didn’t claim LW is the worst. As per my post, the worst offenders are hexbear, lemmygrad and lemmy.ml. .world is not a monolith, and I have nothing major against the admins. I was specifically referring to the 3 news subs on .world as problematic.

Take a skim through !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com. News, world news, and politics @world probably makes up like a 3rd of the posts in there.

I suppose it depends very much on what your definition of PTB is. Firstly, I’ll say this is based on the info in that post, and it may be one-sided since he didn’t defend himself.

The fact that he declares his intentions does help, but IMO it’s a large overstep. Banning anybody who so much as downvotes you is going to ensure you have an absolute echo chamber very soon. Which I’m guessing is probably the point, since otherwise he could have gone the Beehaw way of disabling downvotes for his instance.

Huh, I just checked the modlogs and yep, I’m banned from his instance. I suppose if you’re a user on his instance and unaware of what’s happening, you’ll just see the fediverse slowly shrink and shrink. I’m a reasonably prolific contributor, I’m fairly moderate, and if I’m getting banned for my views, so is a significant portion of the fediverse.

calls for murder shouldn’t be appearing in “memes” or “shitpost” communities that are made for fun

I agree with that. Comms should have full control over the type of content (including comments) they want appearing within them. But that’s not what’s happening with dubvee.

I agree with you that we need more content. I’ve blocked most of the meme comms b/c they’re not my thing, and most of the remaining content falls into a very few lonely groups. Building niche comms is a lot of work.

Here you go: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29502571

There are comments by others in there that they’ve been banned for downvoting him but otherwise never interacting with him or the instance.

Thanks for the additional info and context!

Thanks for the really detailed response!

1. Yeah, I noticed the missing thumbnails and I agree it is cause for concern.
2. The dubvee admin has been mentioned several times in !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com as a PTB, banning anybody who downvotes him. Not the best situation to expose newcomers to either.
3. I can try that out. The single point of failure and long registration time looks like a concern.

Do you have any opinion about infosec.pub which somebody else recommended?

I suppose lemmy.ml technically isn’t federated with .ml…

I want a instance that I’m comfortable recommending to my crowd. I listed the criteria that I needed for my specific group of friends, and porn is not something that is an issue here. Maybe as a secondary criteria, but that’s a distant second.

[.ml] doesn’t really go out of its way to interfere with other communities

Yes, but I’m not willing or comfortable recommending anything that’s got a bunch of .ml comms on the front page.

My post started with ‘Criteria: I’m looking for instances that are defed’ with the Big 3 tankies’, which you conveniently left out of your quote. That direct statement was not clearly phrased enough?

Yes, let’s just ignore the entire text body? I know there’s a joke about never reading the article, but this is a level above that.

Thank you for deciding my criteria for me 🙄

Oh that’s handy

You do realise I’m on SJW? And neither of your recs is relevant to the criteria I stated.

I have no interest in trying to persuade my friends to create an acc and set up instance blocks before diving in

lemmy.ml is not as tankie, but that bar is the height of my little toe.

Thanks!

Have a cookie!