I learned just recently that dbzer0 has a great piracy community that is blocked by lemmy.world . I’m not saying I’m looking to switch instances or anything, but it did get me wondering what else might be blocked by my instance that I wasn’t previously aware of.

While we’re at it, I’m curious what communities might notably be blocked on other instances as well. So we might as well just make this a question about what might be blocked by any particular instance, not just my instance.

So, what’s blocked on some instances that folks might not have realized is blocked?

  • anon6789
    30•1 month ago

    I haven’t checked out Beehaw in a while, but I used to enjoy spending time there. Some people didn’t like it because of how heavily they curated their instance, but I really enjoyed how polite it was. It ultimately discouraged a lot of people from going there, which they saw as good, but most outsiders saw as bad.

    As .world ramped up in volume, I had more and more to interact with here, and I ran out of time to be instance hopping so I haven’t checked what they’re up to lately.

    Overall, blahaj seems to have done a better job doing something similar while not alienating people. But if you want to see a Lemmy instance that decided to take the route less taken, maybe give them a look.

      • anon6789
        4•1 month ago

        I took a moment to scroll Beehaw a bit after bringing it up. It’s largely how I remember it, but the place feels much more tense than before, but I can’t really fault them for that with the massive uptick in hate around much of the world.

        If one wants a place like Beehaw, I agree there probably isn’t a much better one out there.

      • @JubilantJaguar
        2•1 month ago

        So much talk of Beehaw but still no sign of a link!

        PS: or Blahaj, assuming it’s not the same thing

    • @Ledivin
      7•1 month ago

      Blahaj not alienating people? Did we miss the whole “ban everyone who doesn’t support drag, the anti-trans troll” saga?

      • anon6789
        1•30 days ago

        No instance is going to be perfect, but instance admins are always going to set the house rules. I’m not going to say any more on the matter than I have only had good interactions with drag. I’m not trans, so I can’t speak to his effect on other trans people, but I believe the blahaj admins are. Even trans people aren’t going to always agree on everything, and that’s when it’s up to the admin to define what that line is with an issue.

        While their decision doubtlessly pushed many away, I’m also sure they put a lot of thought into their decision on what they felt was good for their instance as a whole, and right or wrong, it’s their decision to make. Some people I’m sure love them more for the choice they made.

        I listened to both sides and I think I see where both groups are coming from. I think blahaj did right based on what I understand their goals to be. Drag is one individual and anyone who didn’t like them could have simply blocked them and moved in with their lives, but so many had to confront them every time they popped up, which seemed like it violated their rules of respecting everyone.

        • @Ledivin
          1•30 days ago

          I’m not arguing for or against blahaj, just your description of “not alienating people,” which is objectively false and you clearly agree.

          And yeah; I don’t respect people who make a joke of other people’s existence. I don’t care what their motivation is, drag makes the rest of the community seem lesser for their trolling.

          • anon6789
            3•30 days ago

            Ah, I understand now. My original intent was to say blahaj as a whole has been less alienating when compared to Beehaw. They have a pretty similar mission, but Beehaw has gotten itself pretty walled off from a good portion of the Fediverse to the point where they were talking about taking it somewhere else entirely.

            Blahaj has done some things that people haven’t liked, but its actions have been more in line with its existence in a federated environment.

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      7•30 days ago

      Overall, blahaj seems to have done a better job doing something similar while not alienating people.

      No. They’re quite good at alienating people, too. Especially when the admin self-admits to banning anyone she personally disagrees with.