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?

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    Instance drama is becoming real fucking tiresome on Lemmy.

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      Yeah for example I started on lemmy.world and then there was some defederation drama. So I made an account on lemmy.today because they don’t block any instances. Just to give me the entirety of the fediverse. Plus it’s good to have a backup in case a server goes down.

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        I think a lot of people start on Lemmy.world and lemmy.ml but then overtime switch to other instances they made alts on. I think it’s a cool way that things work and centralisation gets avoided.

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    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.

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      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.

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

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        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.

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          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.

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            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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      Beehaw is the best run instance on the fediverse no question. I generally like blahaj as well but it can get a bit rowdy lol

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    In LW you can’t see Beehaw. Haven’t been on beehaw in a while, but it has some really great people. I think Hexabear or whatever it’s called is blocked too. They are more negative, like reddit was when I left.

    You can look at the federated instances in the stats tab on the LW main page. There are also some radical extreme Right instances like Brighton on that list. Most of the rest are some of the paraphilia instances and trolls.

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    You might consider making accounts on different instances because over my time here I’ve had to hop back and forth multiple times over update issues and server issues.

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    If you’re talking about blocking specific communities, I’m not aware of any other major ones. Lemmy.world is the largest instance, so most likely to be targeted by legal threats, and run by volunteers, so not worth going to jail over.

    Entire instance blocks are pretty common though. Ignoring spam instances, the commonly blocked ones would be Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and Hilarious Chaos (previously called Exploding Heads).

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      Wow! That’s incredible!

      How long did it take you to talk to every liberal?

      Are you a journalist? Did you go door to door? Did you organize meetings in cities of varying liberal population percentages?

      & the planning, networking, coordination, long-term communication, & all the other work must have taken ages before you released your research papers.

      Please send me some links to those papers. Do you have a repository?

      That would make things much easier for independents like me who must be dumbfucks for choosing candidates who have concrete evidence of a clear understanding as to how government has worked successfully & unsuccessfully to benefit communities of various sizes, ethnicity percentages, religions, genders & the gender-questioning or who have made the uncomplicated & trouble-free decision to live as the gender they believe they are & often have have medical evidence (by those ultra-rich doctors probably), farmers, law enforcement, & so many other groups in this country which seems (I’m sure it’s all a ruse), through data, to have benefited from our melting pot citizenry, refugees, & illegal immigrants doing the jobs so few natural citizens, like the Ohlone, Paiute, Navajo, Chippewa, Iroquois, & other Native Americans, prefer to do.

      Through which journals did you publish your papers & how did you factor biases to ensure objectivity?

      Thank you so much for all that work. It must have taken a lifetime. Would you mind sharing your age? I respectfully expect you must be a centurion.

      Where can I find a bibliography? I’m sure each entry includes your peer-reviewed sources.

      I know that, given I’m nearly 50, which may make me one of those fandangled boomers I used to hear about, the likelihood of actually living long enough to read your well-written works is currently low.

      Hopefully the work all those idiots who have been using their fancy-pants, high-falutin’ college degrees to extend the lives of democrats, republicans, third-party members, independents, or otherwise will pan out since those wealthy tech bros like Altman & Musk have been using cutting edge tech (blech!) to solve these aging problems humans have had to deal with since, well, forever I guess.

      I mean you must have accumulated mountains & mountains of data to be able to confidently determine “shitlib” is the appropriate term, despite the obvious division of the 99% of people who make less than the billionaires who have helped & continue to help our 47th President become our supreme leader despite the

      • sexual assault conviction

      • 34 felony convictions of falsifying business records in order to keep hidden his infidelity or infidelities (thank the Gods you’ve done this research!)

      &

      • civil fraud conviction for inflating & deflating assets.

      Its honorable citizens like you who do your own extensive & objective research to wake us shitlibs, shitcons, & shitdependts up with tangible quantitative data from peer-reviewed sources by those shit-for-brains white tower elites with their excessive 5 or 6 digit salaries that your work has confirmed to be bullshit.

      I also look forward to the day you are able to piece together those concepts of ideas you mull over that will save us from the wealthy elite like Zuckerberg (more like Fuckerberg, right?), Bezos, & Musk who so not arrogantly stood behind our newish President at his inauguration.

      Thank you, you most distinguished, respected, & qualified independent researcher.

      Thank you for your noticeably considerable, in both magnitude & cogency, lifetime of peer-scrutinized, authoritative work.

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        Liberals include democrats and republicans and depending on the views of each independent, them too. In north america, “liberals” usually refers to followers of social liberalism as opposed to conservative liberalism. In other places, it can mean a commitment to limited government and laissez-faire economic policies. It’s much more complicated than that but that is a little info.

        There’s so much hostile sarcasm here I’m not sure what you believe in but hopefully that helps.

        Edit: I can sorta understand since they said shitlib, but not only conservatives use it, it can be used by leftists (actual left wing, not US left wing). So I took out the hostile part.

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          Awww, the poor widdle baby can’t handle actual arguments because their entire ideology is based on how they feel when they vote instead of actual outcomes or lives

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          You somehow missed that I must be an unhinged shitdependent.

          Please help me, in all my dumbfuckery, how I am unhinged.

          Is it because I use words you find challenging?

          Is it because I use many words?

          I’m obviously not as hinged as you since you appear to be an authority in these matters.

          Help me understand just what exactly you find less than hinged.

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            You wrote 20 paragraphs of nonsense in response to one small innocuous comment. I could actually feel the spittle coming out of your unhinged mouth. I couldn’t quite make sense of what you were saying but the funniest part that I even could understand was you pointing to Trump’s crimes as if I’m somehow pro-Trump! Did you know that there are people that are anti-Democrat that are ALSO anti-Trump? The programming that you unknowingly demonstrate is alarming: You can’t even imagine that someone could be both anti-DNC and anti-GOP.

            Thanks for the laugh. I can’t stop re-reading your hilariously accurate caricature of the average unhinged American shitlib lemmy.world user that enthusiastically supported the genocide without the unbearable stench of their hypocrisy reaching their blocked nose.