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Hexbear is something. [email protected] can be useful if you want to have a look at what is happening there
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something directly on the sign up page is warranted.
The sign up page literally asks people to write "I agree to the TOS” in the form, with a link to the ToS
People don’t often “look” for instances specific to their locale when joining Lemmy.
Not so sure, lemmy.ca, feddit.org, sopuli.xyz, aussie.zone and midwest.social are in the top 20 of most active instances. If you go top 30, you find feddit.nl, feddit.uk and jlai.lu
It’s obviously lemmynsfw.com
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Not necessarily when the topic is anti-western sentiment, since much of the West is pretty ignorant about why much of the rest of the world feels that way.
We’re on Lemmy, I really hope people here are aware of all the issues with the West, but you never know.
Glad you found that example useful!
They are only instances, you would still visit your usual communities. Their might be a change should anyone want to create a “AskUS” community there, but that’s not the case yet
I don’t know anything about Dutch or Finnish laws, but I’ve seen many recent articles about people arrested in Germany for their social media posts that were considered hateful or violent (which is frankly a culture shock to me as an American), so I can see why some of the posts on Lemmy in the past week would be concerning.
https://lemmy.world/comment/13870047
If you are a US citizen and would prefer a US-based instance, there is
The only thing I’ve seen so far that seems like a legitimate complaint is the posting of the pig poop balls emoji and perhaps excessive emojis in general. Neither of those seem like grounds for blocking a whole instance instead of just banning individuals for posting pig poop balls.
If any other instance were to have such behaviour collectively, they would probably get defederated as well. That LW, SJW, lemmy.ca, feddit.org (https://feddit.org/post/41472) and smaller instances like startrek.website (https://startrek.website/post/15928569) all defederate them shows something.
Another example I saw a few weeks ago, with things like “the French deserve a thousand charlie hebdos” (terrorist attack) https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/24552489.
Ironically, in the end it was HB who defederated Jlai.lu.
Nice for 0.19.5, let’s see how it goes!
Alright, let’s see if those help
For the 0.19.3, 0.19.5 has been around for a while, and is very stable. 0.19.7 and 0.19.8 do indeed have a few bugs, but 0.19.5 was solid. SDF is among the last to not have updated
I just noted lemmy.sdf.org is still on 0.19.3, any reason not to update to at least 0.19.5?
For hexbear:
That’s a negative for me. I don’t want anyone blocking instances on my behalf unless those instances are doing blatantly illegal stuff.
In that case, there’s https://lemmy.today/ . Their blocklist is empty, and they’re from Oregon.
We prefer to recommend https://discuss.online/ for new joiners, so that they don’t have to stumble upon hexbear from their very first minutes on the platform. For more advanced users, it’s a different story.
How is this not clear?
From https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
Our Governing Laws
The website and the agreement will be governed by and construed per the laws of the following countries and/or states:
The Netherlands
Republic of Finland
Federal Republic of Germany
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FYI, your instance is hosted in the Netherlands
Welcome, you are now visiting the Mbin instance of Melroy van den Berg. This server is hosted in The Netherlands.
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Ouch
Enjoy dbzer0!
It’s not me
primary instance recommendation
I just did: https://feddit.org/post/5497724/3543560
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