• Navarian@lemm.eeEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      Can’t speak for others, but my decision to stick with lemm.ee stemmed from seeing how active the owner is, the minimal defederation and the bot & moderation policies meaning there are minimal bots, and I’ve yet to currently see much spam issues, which is nice.

      Also helps that the owner Sunaurus is an active contributor to the Lemmy project as a whole, so we get patches and fixes relatively quickly.

    • Lucia@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      513·
      1 year ago

      why do people choose it over other instances?

      Non-techy people want a big instance, but .world goes offline too often and .ml doesn’t allow new sign ups.

      • boredtortoise@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        When I tested different instances lemm.ee was quite small compared to the big ones. The main pros are technically fast and stable. It also federates comprehensively.

        Edit: also remembered that it hasn’t had any insane admin/rule situations that I’ve noticed

      • DurotarEnglish
        274·
        1 year ago

        deleted by creator

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          lemm.ee itself also doesn’t allow porn but that’s a “don’t post it with your lemm.ee account” type of rule. I think it also gets filtered out of the all feed, but you can definitely subscribe to stuff over on lemmynsfw.com. Long story short porn is a bugger to mod and the legal situation when hosting (and uploading an image with a lemm.ee account would imply that) is never trivial, either.

          Somewhat relatedly, image upload limits are also rather strict, 100kb, to avoid that becoming a resource hog.

        • Lucia@eviltoast.orgEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          That’s reasonable! Although AFAIK lemmynsfw is one of the most defederated instances ever, so there’s a lot of options.

        • SubArcticTundraEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          It actually censors curse words too. I’ve actually come to like it though

      • MetriximorEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        You sure about that? I just made this account a few days ago.

        • Lucia@eviltoast.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          They closed sign ups during the early days of the migration up until recently. I just missed the moment they’re open again since I’m not interested in large instances.

      • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        Also lemme.ee is not defederated from one or two instances that I want to access consistently which is why I made a new account there for my new main

    • SchizoDenji@lemm.eeEnglish
      27·
      1 year ago

      Because it is more open and lenient in not defedereting and as a user i can choose which subs and instances to block.

      • Cloudless ☼@feddit.ukEnglish
        447·
        1 year ago

        Thanks. Looking at the admin’s profile, he seems to be very reasonable. I especially like this comment he made:

        “Not sure if I actually have to justify removing soviet and/or nazi symbolism, but I have lived my whole life in a country on the border of Russia. My country been ravaged by both Nazis and Soviets in very recent history. I want to be clear that while I think criticising capitalism is totally normal and necessary, I am also extremely aware of constant Kremlin propaganda. Propaganda which is spread both in their media, but also crucially in online channels. Propaganda which includes things like downplaying horrifying actions of the soviet union, portraying their “enemies” (the west) in the worst possible light, and mixing in soviet symbolism wherever possible. I have no intention of allowing anything which resembles this propaganda to be spread through lemm.ee. If banning offending users does not work, then further steps will definitely be taken.”

          • Nowyn@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            9·
            1 year ago

            History fits the majority of Eastern European countries but yes as said they are Estonian. Actually, now that I think about it can’t really think of any Eastern European countries that it doesn’t fit at all.

            • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Eastern Europe had finally just stabilized a little bit it looked like. They’ve consistently gotten the short end of the stick from the superpowers in the region using their territory for war.

              Hopefully after Ukraine is over (with Ukraine keeping all their land) there will be some stability in the region again

              • Nowyn@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                4·
                1 year ago

                Living next to Russia has never been easy. Living between Russia and Western powers has been worse. I’m Finnish and while we have not really seen ourselves as Eastern Europeans for a long time, we are. Just got lucky past century.