• violet08@lemmy.worldOP
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      honestly deleting my account was a spur of the moment thing. then i got bored cause no other platform satisfies my pseudoblogging needs like this one. i went with this instance for my new account cause it’s the biggest/most popular & it was the first one that came to mind.

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      What’s the difference between instances? I was under the impression there was no functional difference?

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        Different policies and rules mostly. Lemmy.ml has a ton of weirdly pro Russia and China admins on it. Very tankie Stalinist. blahaj.zone Is really nicely queer friendly. dbzer0.com has a cool anarchist hacker culture etc.

        For me the problem I have with lemmy.ml is that that if you disagree with Russia’s invasion on one news community you’ll find yourself banned from the Linux community.

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          Ugh. This is still the issue with Lemmy, confusing instances, somewhat random federations, strong cultural differences.

          I used to like my instance but now it is done.

          Just constantly a mess to be social here.

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          That explains why people have been hostile to me by default even though I presented a balanced front (in my eyes)

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            Yahhhhh. It’s a rough situation to be a non tankie on a tankie instance.

            The issue is that a lot? a majority? a great majority? of users there have very “out there” opinions and more and more of them are trying to be more subtle about it.

            
            Avg .ml user: Long winded post about why war is bad
            
            Avg responder: I agree war should be avoided for the harm it causes.
            
            Avg .ml user: Therefore we all must support Russia against the imperialist Ukrainians!
            
            Avg responder: Russia started the war. Why should we support them?
            
            Avg .ml user: Because NATO forced Russia to invade. In reality it was NATOs fault!
            
            Avg responder: I wasted my time here. No point in arguing.
            
            

            The average non .ml user has been through this or seen this enough to be cautious of seemingly reasonable balanced arguments from .ml users.

            I totally get staying, but personally if I woke up and my account was on .ml I would move.

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            Man, if you feel excluded by shitposters on a website, imagine how excluded you would feel being lgbtqa in a country where 40% of people think you are an evil disgusting degenerate who will go to hell forever.

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              Don’t have to imagine dude.

              Now imagine living somewhere where 75%of people belong to the same damn cult and about half of people want to kill you because your existence disproves their culty religion.

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            Yup! They work really hard to create a strong queer space. That means they work hard to exclude bigotry and the like, even in its micro aggression form.

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              Which explains why they hate bi men, nonbinary folk and intersex people so persistently. Not queer enough for y’all. Hence why I left them out of the acronym.

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                I’m sorry. I’m not on blahaj.

                Bigotry towards bi men and non-binary folk seems very much not like them.

                Are you a bi man or non-binary person? If so I would be interested hearing what sort of discrimination you faced at blahaj. I recommend them quite a bit but would rather not if they are hateful in that way.

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      World is bad. Why world of all places?

      guess

      I saw some people saying violet’s old instance was a troll instance and that’s proof she’s not who she says she is. Weird but okay. I guess world is the most normal instance, and the intent is to dispel those accusations.

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        Aren’t we all just trolling ourselves, at some level?

        I used to have an account on Today and it gets janky every once in a while and just goes down for an hour or two. I literally did the same.

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    This is actually clever, because the ass acts as a counterweight to the other possessions, saving you from having to actively lift any weight.