If you are familiar with the term tankie, hexbear is the china-fan tankie instance and lemmygrad is for those lusting after Stalin and the soviet union.
Lemmy.ml is a bit more low key about it, but equally authoritarian communist when it comes down to it, as evidenced by the op.
Especially the hexbear users have an extremely argumentative instance culture and will even brigade comment sections critical of the great leader, so most users and even instances block them outright.
Well I agreed that it is an ultimately bad change, but I can see how the beginner mode mentality would lead to this conclusion. Provide the new user with the most stable and bug free experience possible, and after some time they will probably turn that setting off on their own to get all that popular software.
I dont know, it is just the general consensus on every “I want to drop windows but i am scared of Linux” post ever made, and from my personal experience I found it actually too much like windows (made a live boot before I chose another distro).
I think it is a stupid change myself, but as far as I (recent Linux convert) can tell, mint is considered the go to distro for people coming freshly over from windows, and decidedly caters to beginners. A default setting for maximum user protection makes sense for that.
Way to go. "Technologiestandort Deutschland“ wie er im Buche steht.
If they retreated from the German market out of spite I could see the government voiding their rights and patents. Can’t have rights to things you dont offer here. Then they’d end up with sanctioned piracy of their stuff. I dont think Microsoft would be that idiotic.
You’re welcome, and good luck! Hope it works out
As someone who went through the application system to join my instance, it is really not that bad. Just have your potential users write a few sentences on their lemmy history, why they want to join your instance and what content they are looking for.
This can be answered in a few minutes, but it is already enough to discourage almost all bad faith applicants. The few hours of wait period while you check their application for copy pasting are also contributing to deter them, simply because spam users often want to do some mischief right now, waiting until tomorrow doesn’t work well for those impulses.
Will do, thank you!
That would be convenient indeed, thanks!
I don’t really care about the hashtags, I want more content. And properly federating with the biggest fediverse service seems an easy and eventually necessary step anyway for Lemmy.
But you see, if I post the gigachad xi image in a comment I win the argument and my stalin posting friends give me an upvote
The link is virtually unreadable, it formats really strangely on mobile. The text is in a 1cm wide column on the right side, allowing only ~3 letters per row.
I hadn’t even considered people would try to print ball bearings, lol. But yeah I definitely meant the quite cheap, actually functional ones you can buy or order.
Perhaps you can grease it up, or use (print) a mount with ball bearings. Or you have to stand there and feed it until the spool is done
Interesting, how can I see this for myself? I suppose using a client for Lemmy since day 1 made me not learn these basic things and I want to check some other instances where I suspect the same.
No idea what I did to offend but I guess I can safely block their instance from my feed then. It’s a bit annoying the user isn’t warned or straight up prevented from participating when banned.
The one I noticed it the most with is hexbear. I know they have a bad rep but I like to keep an open mind and tried a bunch of times to chime in whenever I saw one of their posts pop up on the all feed i felt I had something relevant to add to.
I also know they are a bit echo chamber-y so I assumed they might have a special hidden restriction in place for non-approved instances. I would be surprised if they actually banned my personal account because I don’t think I wrote anything they might consider controversial.
But the fact remains that (as far as I understand) my feed would not show any of their content if my instance was not federated with them, no?
Since I can see their content just fine it doesn’t appear to be defederation. But if they did ban me and there is no way for me to know, isn’t that a shadow ban?
Maybe they are confusing it with ^ in your writing and don’t realize you’re just writing a regular 1.
To be fair, the blog post details how they plan on avoiding such an issue in the future