Oh great. Glad to know that Lemmy looks out for its users. /s

1. Had a feeling that something like that would be the answer. One area that Bluesky has the Fediverse beat is blocklists of users that are there for bad intentions. At least they’re not interested in protecting abusive users there.
2. Will do. I have my doubts about how effective it will be but I’ll try.
3. Thanks for the info, I was wondering why the occasional post doesn’t work. Still useful for catching assholes that want to ruin the experience for everyone else though.
4. So what does blocking actually do if the person is still able to interact with your posts? Is it just a placebo then?

Also !bunnies@lemmy.world or !dailybunnies@lemmings.world

We’ll get some more control over images when 1.0 comes

Ah, so a Lemmy limitation once again. Kinda like how a trans community can’t decide to disable downvotes without it being all or nothing. It would definitely make this a whole lot better if users could at least finish creating their profiles, even if they’re unable to upload images elsewhere. There’s always imgur but that doesn’t work for profile pics. But somehow I’m not surprised that it’s a platform limitation.

please understand

I definitely do and if I was rich, I would definitely be donating to causes like this regularly. I very much appreciate what you’re providing for us here. But as an end user that’s just looking for the perfect place to park and call my online home, I have to also consider my experience here and can’t run on just idealism and good will. It’s a pity about the images thing because this instance seems otherwise almost perfect for me. But I completely understand. And thank you for providing this space for people like me on the first place.

I’d love to be more tolerant but religious people just can’t help themselves but prove to everyone time and time again that they cannot be trusted in positions of power without swinging their dogma around like a dick. I was born into a country run by christian nationalists that used the bible to justify their apartheid. And in every step of my life since, christians are always the nastiest, most authoritarian, most closed minded and racist and patriarchal people that I’ve known. Whether it’s teachers in school or farmers that treat their workers like animals. And now look at what they’re doing to the USA.

As someone that generally prefers believing in reality to fairy tales, reality has taught me over and over that religious people are the enemy of a multicultural society where everyone is supposed to get along and respect each other.

This is one that gets me the most. People complaining about having options in character creation in an RPG. That boils down what these people are really about though. They don’t want options or variety, they want everything to cater to and revolve around them at all times. That’s why they act like white men are being erased from existence when 1 in every 10 superhero movies have a female lead actor.

My favourite part is that these are the and people that go around calling others “snowflakes” and telling people to get thicker skins. But everything triggers them. And try arguing with them or insulting them in the same way that they freely insult everyone else and they’ll either be crying about how persecuted against they are (as opposed to groups of people that are literally losing their rights and used as political scapegoats daily) or they want to get aggressive and fight.

They’re absolute fragile, insecure babies and it shows with the way they can’t handle men having backsides or think they need to shave their eyelashes off to be more ‘manly’.

Yep. Often and for various reasons, usually related to some mental anguish. In times like this, plain buttered toast with maybe a little salt sprinkled on top is the winner for me. With a glass of water to help chase it down. Definitely not the healthiest thing you could eat but it works for me when I’m hungry but have no appetite.

So does that mean it gets one more season before Netflix cancels it?

This doctor outrage was easily one of the top dumbest fucking things to ever come out of the USA. And of course it was all the right wing conservative people lmao. It’s just one thing after the other with these people. If they’re not angry that kids are learning Arabic numerals in school, they’re busy choosing 1/4 pounder burgers over 1/3 pounder burgers. But the doctor thing is definitely one for the hall of fame.

Ugh. It was a really fun idea returning to this story like 30 years later with a new generation but do they really need to turn it into a franchise now? Fkn come on Hollywood.

Just took a look and it definitely seems like the kind of instance that I’m looking for. The only thing is, I’ve just recently come from another instance with downvotes disabled (Blahaj) and was wanting to get a look at Lemmy with all votes enabled. Honestly I wish that individual communities or instances could choose to have downvotes disabled without it effecting every other instance too. Sucks that it’s an all or nothing kind of deal.

By the way, just realised that I’m an absolute idiot that was looking at the wrong list and that lemmy.zip is in fact federated with hilariouschaos. I’m honestly getting tired of being blind or doing dumb things, I promise I’m not normally a stupid person but it’s like my brain isn’t working properly these days.

Just dropped my phone and now half the screen is messed up and barely readable. Great. Guess that anything I save now is going to another cheap piece of shit phone that I dislike first, before it goes to anything worthwhile.

Blaze rocks lol. Definitely one of the friendliest and most helpful people around here. Especially when you’re still a noob.

Thanks! It definitely does help. I’m looking for the fabled perfect (for me) instance lol. Somewhere that’s going to at least keep users protected from CSAM or other horrid things but that isn’t going to also be deciding for their users when it comes to non illegal content.

Sounds like either world or ee are the answer. So I’ll do a little more homework but probably end up signing up with world again.

Hey @LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al, I hope you don’t mind me summoning you here. You’re the one that inspired me to start looking around for a different instance so I want to ask, what’s the deal with lazysoci.al? Was it missing something for you that you get out of lemmy.world? And does lemmy.world federate with hilariouschaos?

I have always got good vibes from zip users and communities in the past. I see that one instance they de-federate from unfortunately is that hilariouschaos instance. One of the reasons I signed up here was to see the alt community there. That instance definitely gives me certain vibes though and it’s a pity that there’s a few communities on there of interest to me. But yeah, I’d like to find an instance that gets rid of illegal content and doesn’t allow straight bigotry under the guise of ‘free speech’ but I’d also like to be able to decide for myself sometimes. And block users or communities myself if they disagree with my politics or lifestyle.

Thanks very much for the help here. The links you shared are definitely going to be useful in helping me find what I’m looking for. This instance that I’m on right now is almost perfect for me so far, apart from the image hosting limitations.

Thanks, I guess I’ll just try doing homework this time to find exactly what I’m looking for. An instance that just doesn’t do any de-federating whatsoever is also kinda scary because I don’t want CSAM and shit ending up in my feed. I also don’t want to end up cut off from places like Blåhaj because of admins not taking action over certain things.

So I need something more like world or ee. But without any limits on image uploading either because I’d rather find an instance that can be both message board and image host than look for some third party image host platform to use that may or may not work nicely with various apps.

My problem is not reading properly. Because I was taken by surprise by the no downvotes thing when I signed up on Blåhaj and I was taken by surprise here on lemm.ee with the 4 week wait and 500kb limit on file uploads. So basically I just need to do my homework and read properly.

Thought I’d just ask you here in this comment chain seeing as you’re pretty extensively well traveled in the Fediverse lol. What other good options are there for instances that don’t do a lot of de-federating (and give you the general ‘Reddit’ experience) but also aren’t completely unmoderated? I don’t want to end up somewhere that half of the Fediverse de-federates from for whatever reason. Is it just lemmy.world and lemm.ee?