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Hehe go for it then:-).

Yeah, and while it may not solve everything, it could still help!:-)

And then only with deeper knowledge of how the Fediverse functions under the hood - like how "instances" relate to "communities" and specific moderator names, especially when working from a remote account on a different instance than the community structure... Hey, where are you going? 😯

The hard part is that for some people, News and Politics is actually what they are looking for. Others want only Memes and never not that, while still others want content types like Gaming or Arts and Crafts, etc.

So when Categories of Communities and/or Topic areas is implemented, this issue will be solved, but until then these are merely a best guess about what an "average" user desires to see, rather than allowing them to choose their own experience.

But - and this is crucial - someone isn't going to be able to block things unless they first have an account. It's like saying that a particular general location (like a city or a nation) has no crime... if only you avoid the "bad" parts (but where are those even, and how are you supposed to know especially before you get into them - also, are there even any parts that aren't bad? it's a valid question, to someone who does not yet know?)

So you are correct in the sense that Lemmy != "Alt-Left Nazi". What I said though is that we are an Alt-Left Nazi "bar". We are not totally that thing - some of us are simply here, hanging out, having a drink, doing our own thing(s). But there are Nazis here (or rather in our case, the Alt-Left instead of the Alt-Right).

And that political content is everywhere. Well, not literally, but like if you browse by All or enjoy any kind of "news" or especially "memes", then it's really super difficult to block out. Someone used to Reddit simply won't bother learning how to navigate around the Alt-Left spaces. We who use ~~Arch~~ Linux btw are different - perhaps less sane?:-P

There's a reason the current Lemmy sourcecode is named 0.19.8 - this is beta version software, awaiting very many changes to reach completion. Heck, reports don't even reach moderators on remote instances yet, as the whole drama with 196 is showing (they left the mod reports there for days, then got mad when the instance admin did what she said she would and cleaned up in the absence of the mods being willing to do anything about the situation).

But people either don't know Rust (it's reputedly difficult), don't want to deal with those developers, or simply don't want to help with the writing of code. Hence the creation of K/Mbin, PieFed, and Sublinks to deal with the former pair of issues, though not catching up to feature parity with Lemmy yet (except PieFed is already quite ahead, in some ways even though not ready for the masses in some fewer but more foundational and crucial ways).

Yeah... I'm actually okay with censorship so long as it is clearly explained in advance and fairly applied - then again, I don't necessarily want to join it either, just saying that I'm okay that it exists... over there somewhere (away from me:-).

If LW helped you migrate from Reddit to the Threadiverse until you knew more what you were looking for and could find a true home in lemm.ee that meets your needs better, then both of them sound awesome at their respective roles to me.:-)

Fwiw the only thing you were ever banned from is !Comics@lemmy.ml, and I don't even understand the reason: "No third party vote shaming". And that expired 2 months ago so you are all good.

Here is your entire modlog btw: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=8837267 . I don't know what communities those posts were even attempted to be sent to but mostly it says "Not political" for the reason given for the removal, so whether that's too much political and they don't want it or not political enough and they need it I don't even know but there it is!:-P

Mods are generally not going to surrender their power, especially as differences in moderation techniques is what most often leads to new community formation in the first place:-).

Other than PieFed's Categories of Communities, the only other ways I know of to make Topic aggregations like that is to either find and switch to using an app that provides such (I have heard of at least one, but I don't recall which:-), or else have many Lemmy accounts and constantly switch between them - like one for News, another for Memes, etc. Or you can browse by All, and see mostly only memes and news from the USA all the time:-P.

But PieFed provides numerous methods handle this: not only Categories but also Topics to aid community discovery, and you can trigger Notifications for anything - a person, a comment, post, or even an entire community.

One day very soon I strongly believe that PieFed will surpass Lemmy in terms of usability. It already has in so many ways, though not quite all.

I'm surprised to hear about the slowness issue - I think this is the first time that I have, though I am definitely spoiled at Discuss.Online that has such a great technical admin (he also is the one who was developing Sublinks, before life and a baby intervened:-). Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?

Tbf there is legit fear in the USA that Trump will start to place bans or at least watchlists on social media outlets that Musk does not make money off of. Then again, I thought that LW wasn't really associated with the USA in any way besides having a bunch of users from it, and anyway you have found a perfect solution to the problem - if they don't want it, go somewhere else that does allow what you need.:-)

At a guess, bc it doesn't have that many communities on it?

Efforts are underway to change that but yeah it definitely lacks the same punch as others - like sh.itjust.works has 5 communities that are each larger, some by almost 3 times, than the absolute largest one on lemm.ee.

That instance seems not so much a "source" of content across the Fediverse as a "destination" for posts made to communities elsewhere.

Then again, very little else compares to Lemmy.World in that regard - it has another 10 communities each larger, some twice as large, as sh.itjust.works does. It would be healthier for the network effects to split that up a bit more... but fortunately their upgrade process over the next few months should help a little.