You don’t seem to be getting an actual answer to your question, so I’ll try. IMO it’s the idea of being the master of your own domain and being in control; basically being an admin. If you want to be on an instance designed to your own preferences, like which instances it federates with and what communities you want to host, then the ultimate way to do it is to create and host your own instance.
The popular Mastodon instances seem to be more stable than the Lemmy ones though. I don’t think I’ve experienced any extended downtime on the Mastodon instances I’ve been on yet. Also, because of the race between the tons of lemmy apps being developed, they tend to have more bugs (on beta). I use Tusker beta for Mastodon and it’s been very stable compared to the Memmy and Mlem betas.
Yup, I can be late for hours to comment on a post and can still get replies. If you’re late by an hour on a popular sub on reddit, you might as well not comment at all.
I discovered this a couple of days ago: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim. It just transfers your subscriptions to your new account in another instance. I don’t really mind not being able to transfer comments for now, but this has been very very helpful when I moved my subscriptions from one of my lemmy.world accounts to another instance because of the recent downtimes.
I use Tusker and it’s been great so far. More features than the official app, and it’s pretty stable too.
I did. I added a note but didn’t want to edit what I originally said so readers have context on what I quoted wrong.
I was typing from memory. Now that you pasted the actual quote, I realize the word “adult” was there; so not intentional and I stand corrected. In any case, my point still stands that I think the conversation between the admins could’ve gone better. Maybe the lemmynsfw admin could’ve explained it another way; on the other hand, the blahaj admin seemed to just be looking for a reason to finally defederate and seemed like they already decided before the conversation even started.
I saw the drama unfold when I was browsing All. My 2 cents:
In terms of the content in question, the lemmynsfw admin was right. I believe the community they were talking about was c/adorableporn, which AFAIK is just naked women acting cute, not acting or implying they are underage. The blahaj admin seemed to have misunderstood the premise of the community.
On the other hand, the lemmynsfw admin didn’t really explain it properly and some of the words they used didn’t exactly help their justification. At one point the admin said they do not discriminate against a poster’s gender, looks, age, etc. and used words akin to saying they do not discriminate against people who are “too young”. Obviously that didn’t come across well in the conversation with the blahaj admin. The community’s rules also had some questionable wording (“child-like” is the term I believe they used), which the mods changed when it was pointed out. So all these things didn’t really help their defense.
At the end of the day, it’s the blahaj admin’s lemmy instance, so they can do whatever they want and defederate if they wish. It’s up to the users on the instance to decide if it was justifiable and if they are ok with losing access to the entire lemmynsfw instance because of a misunderstanding.
EDIT for transparency purposes: As someone mentioned in the replies, I missed the word “adult” in recalling the statement that mentioned “too young”, so the admin did word it correctly. I stand corrected.
Ah yeah I think I remember that. They forced apps to only allow logged in users to see any nsfw content.
You used to be able to see nsfw on r/all. They only removed it recently when they started their plan of going public.
Top from the past 6 or 12 hours works better than Hot IMO. It feels more like the traditional reddit front page.
I was aware of mlmym but not alexandrite. This is cool, thanks! I’ll try it out today.
Oh wow that grinds my gears too. Hopefully those takes are out of pure ignorance and lack of information rather than actually believing FOSS is not secure.