• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    Genuinely wonder if they question their choices of just doing this for free with literally zero benefit to their website and the country as a whole.

    No, they dig their head in the sand and continue to play stupid. If they ever actually acknowledged reality they’d feel bad, so that’s not gonna happen

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      3 hours ago

      Just posting to remind/inform new users there’s been repeated drama with .world policies and mod/admin team in that past. It caused a lot of people to spread to smaller, more varied instances. Which is actually a good thing.

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        18 minutes ago

        I just started and still don’t understand this lemmy. I thought one of the perks was being able to interact on any server despite which one holds your account.

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          8 minutes ago

          Yeah that’s true more or less. Some instances block others for ideological or technical reasons. Sometimes posts/comments take time to propagate across the network. But in general yeah you can see everything on all the other instances regardless where your home account is. You could even spin up your own instance and see everything, all the back-end traffic and raw data, if you wanted.

        • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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          The way it works is communities are hosted on the instances and when moderators do things in communities that makes people mad those people can only go to that community’s instance administrators.

          And then people get really angry at instance operators and admins with differing policies and rules about content and moderation.

          So those conflicts can and do drive some culture wars. (Ex: Blahaj has little tolerance for gatekeepers, .ml has no patience for american liberal politics, .world is particular about zionism, and so on.)

          But otherwise except for instances that defederate from each other the perk is absolutely that instances don’t really matter for registering and posting as a user.

          At most just check the instance rules before posting and you’ll probably be just fine on Lemmy.