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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tbh, I kinda like that we have these growing pains. Helps folks leave out older expectations of monolithic profit-oriented social platforms. And actually put some money down to help host the specific niche community they really want to exist.

I'll probably eat these words later but, as of this moment, I stand by it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is the fediverse's way of telling us to break our old habit of piling on a single site and to spread out.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except...it's being DDOS'd, so no, it isn't.

If anything this is basically establishing to everyone out there that if you want to kill an instance or encourage people to move to a different one (with different admins who might have different..."styles"), just DDOS it and promote your alternative instance as a refuge.

I'm sticking with .world because the admins there are chill. Don't feel like rolling the dice on a new instance where some power mods probably set up shop.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You do you, but I wouldn't say that lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, sopuli.xyz or reddthat.col are power mods

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Particularly sh.itjust.works. They're letting the community vote on instance rules and the Admin is really chill

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A gaming instance would take a lot of load.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you can't tell from the name it's not going to work well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blahaj is queer focused, but there is no way you can get that from the name

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a tumblr meme and IKEA reacted to the association by using the shark as a prop in their pro-gay marriage ads in Switzerland. F1nnster has like twenty in a pile in the background as people keep buying them for him.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I didn't know blahaj was LGBTQ-related. That's so fucking cool!

I love IKEA.