I’ve slowly become familiar with lemmy and learned the things like blahajj is an ally of trans but hides downvotes and kbin shows how you vote to others etcetc. i don’t even know what hexbear is but hear it’s ideologically wonky.

Lots of Lemmy instances basically have some decent aspects, but then something about them is a total dealbreaker.

I’ve started looking at moderation histories when coming across content removed by moderators and am now able to distinguish instances where ideologies not aligned with their admins get censored. I first noticed it when checking why certain posts were removed on Lemmy.ml and had to research lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don’t want. I had a run in with a drama on Lemmy.world and curiously checked their mod log to realize that they actually quite often remove comments that don’t match their ideology (along with finding controversial historical actions of .world).

So after all this getting to know instances involved in lemmy, you know which one has no weird dealbreaker attributes that I know of? I just realized tonight which one it is…

sh.itjust.works

So cheers everyone.

Admins and Mods here you are doing great. Community, you are doing great too. grats on being the best instance

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 English
    104·
    11 hours ago

    My only requirements for an instance are:

    1. It works

    2. It’s not run by or full of fascists

    3. It’s furry

    There were two choices. Now there is one. Thankfully the other one only fails item 1.

    But this instance is cool, too. And db0.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      6 hours ago

      Db0 is pretty fucking dope ngl. Their piracy megathread alone brings them over the top. The lack of censorship is just icing on the cake.

  • bund@sh.itjust.works
    101·
    15 hours ago

    lol exactly why i came here but juste used the vibe -o-meter to know it was here that the internet should just be a stupid forum for stupid posts for stupid people stupid is interchangeable with funny

  • stringere@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    20 hours ago

    I chose it for the clever URL not knowing much when I first came to lemmy. Happy circumstance that it ended up being a solid choice. :)

    Cheers to the mods and admins for making this a great place.

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Love it too, but I don’t understand why they didn’t go with shit.just.works, unless of course just.works was already taken (wouldn’t be surprised). Or maybe it’s actually supposed to be “sh, it just works”?

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        It is my understanding of history that The_Dude had the domain itjust.works, and when choosing a subdomain for the Lemmy instance, some absolute genius suggested “sh”.

      • angrystego@lemmy.world
        3·
        16 hours ago

        I think it does have several ways of being read, deliberately so. I saw someone explaining it as some kind of programmer in-joke as well.

        • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          10 hours ago

          Maybe. Sh is an unpopular uncommonly used shell, though many scripts are made sh compatible for wide compatibility

  • med@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    19 hours ago

    Here is where I started, here my I be hurried. Love the ethos, love the mods, love the stability! (Great job @TheDude@sh.itjust.works).

    Also, SJWBot still makes me laugh every time I see it.

  • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    20 hours ago

    I don’t think it would be fair to credit sh.it just.works as the only instance with no dealbreaker, but it has served me very well ever since the reddit api changes.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    21 hours ago

    The instance admin commented on rules a while back: “Number one rule is to not make us ban you”. And I think that tends to curate a userbase that are able to behave themselves without needing a defined set of rules to live by. Rules are one thing, but if you need common sense spelled out for you, you’re probably not the kind of user I need/want around anyway.

  • cm0002@lemmy.world
    661·
    1 day ago

    hexbear is but hear it’s ideologically wonky.

    Understatement of the year LMAO

    lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don’t want.

    Uh nah, they’re tankies, they’re authoritarian communists essentially

    • uuldika@lemmy.mlEnglish
      71·
      16 hours ago

      uh I just picked lemmy.ml pretty randomly when I moved from Reddit, though I specifically picked it over lemmygrad because I’d heard lemmygrad was full of tankies. personally, I’m a left libertarian. I’m not auth at all.

      I think you might be overestimating how much a user’s home lemmy indicates their ideology.

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        9 hours ago

        There’s heavy handed moderation in .ml communities that people hold big grudges about, and that’s mostly about it.

      • cm0002@lemmy.world
        5·
        15 hours ago

        .ml is a tankie instance not because of the bulk of the users, I do not judge any user, .ml or otherwise, until I have seen them or seen evidence of them commenting Tankie ideology or defending it.

        .ml is deemed a tankie instance because the admins and many of the mods not only are hardcore tankies themselves but also enforce the ideology throughout their instance via admin/mod action

        .ml is the most subtle of the Tankie Triad and because they host some official Lemmy support comms often get treated with “kid gloves” by the other instances and don’t get defed’d from like the rest of the tankie triad does (Hexbear and Lemmygrad)

        Checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works if you want to see more

        Actually, because the .ml admins block that comm so you can’t see it, you’ll need to use this link through another instance: https://lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

    • med@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      71·
      19 hours ago

      State socialists, if you like. It’s an oxymoron, but some still seem to choose it.