What about the ones that came here to avoid censorship elsewhere, but got banned here instead? Turns out lemmy.world and lemmy.ml don't like free speech.

It doesn't work so well when the majority of people are concentrated in one or another. It's like going into a Reddit admins pet project sub and then getting banned completely on Reddit because you broke that sub's rules.

The first 6-12 months here (during/right after the Reddit API drama) were great. After that....not so much.

Sounds like censorship to me. I'm from the old internet where if you didn't like what somebody had to say you ignored them. Current internet is far too soft and full of safe spaces which will ban anybody for the slightest offenses.

The first 6-12 months here (during/right after the Reddit API drama) were great. After that…not so much.

I left reddit at the same time for the same reason; found Lemmy, and honestly I've loved it. Looking at other comments, it looks like you're actually running an instance, so your interaction with the fediverse has been very different from mine... can definitely understand burnout from that angle!

I'd recommend just making an account on an established instance, then curating your personal feed reductively by blocking communities and posters whose content you're not interested in. That process will take weeks, but just keep passively blocking shit you don't want to see, and the quality of your experience will skyrocket.

Yeah I'm in the same boat. Though I will say, I have no personal experience of the stress and burden of running an instance myself. Especially one where the admins are actively trying to cultivate a non-toxic environment. That workload and the toxicity it exposes you to must be hell.

Personally I've had almost entirely positive experiences here, up to and including currently. But I stay out of politics, I've curated my subscriptions carefully and I never browse /all.

I almost exclusively browse /all, but I'm up to 897 blocked communities (sports and porn and sports and porn and sports and porn and sports and porn and sports and porn and...).

It takes some doing, but you can whittle /all down to something personalized and enjoyable to browse.

ml says “avoid criticizing Russia, china, North Korea, communism, communist figures, or cursing at our special little gremlins who will spew vileness at you entirely unprompted. But also don’t be a dick or deny atrocities, unless doing so interferes with any of the previously stated rules.”

If only! To be pedantic though, what Lemmy.ml actually says is:

A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers

and

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.

Which (somehow?‍️🤪) translates to what you said, except... no wait, it does not? Hence it says one thing (my quotes) while doing exactly the opposite (your quotes), in point of fact.

On the other hand, there's the "trust me bro, i iz total1y relaibles" defense, otherwise known as "nuh-uh, I know you are but what am I?"

Because while it is human nature to be wrong sometimes, it might be best not to actively wallow in it? (See also: Hexbear, Lemmygrad.ml, and some smaller ones such as midwest.social)

Is there really that much sports on Lemmy? For the longest time it seemed completely barren. Even now Soccer is just having stable but very minor activity. Formula 1 is fairly active though I guess.

And that just sounds like too much work. Much easier to see what you want to see on /subscribed and then put the phone away.

I'm not in this picture.

I'm not in this picture.

The first 6-12 months here (during/right after the Reddit API drama) were great. After that....not so much.

Well why are you here

The first 6-12 months here (during/right after the Reddit API drama) were great. After that....not so much.

You got banned for talking about the government?

Edit: oh i see, you got banned because you're a homophobe and a bigot and an asshole.
That's not censorship. That's just people not putting up with your dumbass.

You don't even have 100 comments my guy. And you're getting banned from multiple places? Lmao

You are free to host an instance with any rules you like, also lemmy is generally ok with Luigi posting

Thanks. And yep. This started as a fun project 2 years ago and it turned into a nightmare. Best thing I can do is leave.

Thanks for being one of the sane ones lol.

You abandoning lemmy completely or just the instance? If the former, will you be going back to reddit or avoiding this format completely?

Lemmy and the fediverse entirely. I guess you could also say social media entirely as this was my last vestige of it.

Planning to re-join the real world and put my energy into actual positive things.