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Just find a better instance. We're having a crab rave over on .ml about this war criminal's death.
ml is hardly innocent of policing opinions
Better than jordanlunds morality policing.
ML is full thought police. You get banned for saying that democrats are a better option than republicans because it's liberal apologism or some other dumb fuckin shit, and all the heavy hitters just spam gpt slop twisting communist theory to explain why the total breakdown of society is actually a good thing, it's fuckin crazy over there. If dessalines sees this comment he'd instance ban me. World is shit but ML is a fuckin joke.
LOL
It's morality policing. Just a different angle.
I've had a much better experience on there than .world, but I'm a non-American socialist.
Help a boomer out... How do I change instances?
You just make an account on a different instance. Lemmy instances are kind of like email providers. You can have a
slickgoat@lemmy.world,slickgoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com,slickgoat@lemmy.ml, etc… Different instances will tend to have very different admin styles. You also still need to follow the rules for whatever local community you’re on as well. So using this thread as an example, I’m onlemmy.dbzer0.combut I still need to follow the local mod’s “no celebrating death” rule. As long as they’re federated with the same instances, you’ll be able to see all the same content.lemmy.worldtends to be many users’ first instance, simply because .world was one of the few instances that kept open registrations during the biggest Reddit migration. So it’s the largest, simply because it’s where most of the new users landed. But it is also frequently looked down on by other instances, because the .world mods tend to skew farther right than lots of Lemmy users prefer.Mate, that was so generous of you to go to so much trouble to explain all that. I've been on this thing for a while now, and yours is the first explanation to make sense.
Very much appreciated.
Cheers,
Mic check covered it nicely, you just make an account through that instances site.
Thanks Mate