I’m here to express my satisfaction and hope for a long standing instance.

There’s also Rocket.Chat

I guess you’ll have to accept your fate.

I look forward to all the complaints on how linux isn’t like windows. :)

They would be more likely to stop the accident from happening if they were there as opposed to not being there.

Yeah I agree. I had to block a few people already for being toxic in one of those ways. I wish I had the programming skills to put in these privacy features myself though. Maybe only show recent posts/comments, only show posts from certain instances or communities. But I can see that being an issue to some.

I don’t know of any document that explains “how Lemmy works”. From the official website and the Github page all it says is it’s a link aggregator and discussion platform that’s self hosted. Each instance can moderate itself and impose their own rules. Nowhere does it state that all profiles have to be public. The official site also states that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. All I ask for is privacy and I think that would align with what I’ve found on Lemmy’s official stance.

Is that a genuine question or you trying to be witty?

My man saw Terminator

The Reddit communities are opening back up and the mods are getting replaced. I don’t think there will be many more Reddit refugees coming unless the company does something stupid again.

If it’s in a language that I know then I’d help too.

That says more about that admin then about Lemmy.

I really hope the developer makes an app for the fediverse. Joey was good

When I was on Reddit I felt that I was at the whim of the company or the admins/mods. On Lemmy I feel like I have the power to make a positive change like you just did. Thanks

We’re in a time where cops are caught on camera killing people. Privacy is a matter of life or death now.

Congress has always been hated. We have no faith in them.

That is just my experience in Reddit. Mods will ban you sometimes if they don’t like your opinion even if you haven’t broken any of the rules. That mostly apply to power trippers but all your points are valid as well.

I think they want it to be more like Reddit. Carefully moderated so they can feel safe in their echo chamber. If it isn’t then they’ll complain and moral bash you into submission instead of putting in the work to host their own instance.

Why not just make a new account on a different instance? Are you trying to keep record of your posts? Your subscription? Blocks and friends? Can be an interesting problem for someone with the time and skill to tackle.

I miss the old days when you could just not feed the trolls. Now people try to silence them, fight trolling with hate disguised as the moral high ground. Many new Lemmy users are so used to the echo chambers and carefully moderated garden of eden that is Reddit. I just wish they would create their own instance, vet the users, and vet who they federated to. But I also predict that if they got big enough they would try to impose their morals on every federated instance.