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Short version: yesterday, Lemmy.world announced essentially, though they buried it under lots of distracting verbiage, that they were going to follow in the footsteps of Vichy Twitter and Meta and allow hate speech and misinformation, and probably more to the point, they intend to force recalcitrant mods to allow it regardless of their own views on the matter.
And the head mod/creator/whatever they are of unpopular opinion took exception to that and locked the community in protest.
Looks like I've chosen a good time to join up here.. I'm guessing that I'm going to be trying my 3rd instance soon.
I'm actually wondering what the draw of this place is gonna be once they decide to start behaving exactly like the rest of the platforms. It's been quite the last 24 hours for me just trying to get set up here between web pages that don't want to load properly, misleading servers and trying a bunch of different apps that all seem to have something either missing or broken. Like, you have to actually want to be here. I've put up with all of this crap so far so that I can use an alternative to Reddit, not just another Reddit with a different url.
If I wanted to hear conspiracy theories and put up with bigotry, I'd be using fucking Twitter.
Come on over to [email protected]
Trying to decide if you're calling me dull or just suggesting an interesting subreddit lol. It does seem like an interesting sub though, sometimes the mundane can be oddly interesting. So thank you.
In the same vibe, there is [email protected]
If you are looking for 20 non-political communities, here's a list: https://lemmy.world/post/23952547
Very cool, thanks for pointing these out. I enjoy dishing out socio-political hot takes as much as the next person but I don't want it to swallow up my life. You've been very cool and helpful to me here, including on the other instance, so once again, thank you very much.