ShittyKopper [they/them]

i’ve been filtering hexbear’s communities from my all feed with uBO^[1] because of the tankie vibes, but outside their own communities hexbear people seem to behave themselves reasonably well. considering lemmygrad is defederated i can expect them being defederated as well just because of the politics, but they don’t seem too brigade-y to the communities here.

to be fair i’ve been blocking all the politics and politic-adjacent communities left right and center so perhaps i’m just not seeing the bad parts of hexbear, but shitposting wise they seem alright.

the only real gripe i have with hexbear is that lemmy’s handling of emoji in general suck and man do they like their emojis. but that’s a software issue more than anything

i manually put it myself. the instance here is considerably closer to upstream lemmy than what hexbear seems to be running

there were some talk of modifications here but one of the admins got into an accident and is afaik still recovering and dealing with more important stuff (moving to cheaper hosting for one)

honestly it’s a miracle this instance is as stable as it is given all the circumstances

image uploads on blahaj were a bit buggy lately. i think they’re working fine right now so you may want to try again.

why not both?

business idea: smokable ink

let me know when you find it and i might let you :3

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Fresh install of just 2 days. 3rd party frames, JS, and remote fonts disabled by default, alongside a fairly strict anti-annoyances config (https://blahaj.zone/@ShittyKopper/pages/usable-web)

and if it were to be de-federated, then lemmy.world would have been ages before that.

.world gets the “untouchably large instance” pass that mastodon.social and it’s ilk always gets, especially amplified by the community oriented structure of Lemmy.

This is in no way a dig to the admins here btw. Defederating from .world would cut off a LOT of otherwise alright communities. That said with their recent statement of “we’re not big compared to Mastodon so we’re not doing anything bad by keeping registrations open!! We want more 🚀 users 🚀” seemed so disingenuous that I myself am considering just outright filtering them out on my own end. And if the Beehaw defederation didn’t bring any sense into them then Blahaj defederating won’t do much either.

Honestly we’re lucky the admin doesn’t seem to be namesearching and replyguying like some others (ahem universeodon ahem)

On my own end I’ve elected to hide all comments from kbin.social users (via uBlock, see https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1633853) and I’ve been avoiding subscribing to communities hosted there. Not because any bigotry or whatever (I try my best to report anything I find suspicious) but just because any time I’ve seen comments with “meh vibes” (even if it isn’t anywhere near bigotry) it seems to come from there (or lemmy.world, which I’ve also been trying my best to limit my own participation to, but I haven’t yet filtered them out completely)

Granted that’s probably because of it’s flagship status. kbin is way more centralized than Lemmy ended up being. (Even with .world’s frankly unmanageable size)

I am not explicitly advocating for defederation (if it isn’t causing a large burden behind the scenes, that is), but if you did defederate I personally wouldn’t complain :p

there’s like a 25 character limit (i think. it’s 20 by default but it’s changeable per instance by the admins) so if your name is short enough you can put it there.