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I've seen around 3 occasions of that this week, altho I have never seen anything like it before.

if I remember correctly they were:

  • smack talking a mod (FlyingSquid) for saying not to report the same comment twice, when they were different comments, and the report was spam
  • someone comparing .world with .ml in politics (as in there was a comment saying "this post will be overrun with .ml people, and then a comment going "but you are from .world") (Maybe Im part of the problem? I have been called out for being a fascist because I questioned the "puching nazis" theme)
  • one more which I can't remember.

Anyways, what is all that about? Are people really starting to hate on 50% of the lemmy population because of their instance?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Reddit pereon here. After over a year (I think, didn't check) on Lemmy I still don't understand the details about how works. I'm pretty busy, and it works to get me my news and such, so it wasn't important to understand how it does so.

But now I'm inspired, thanks for that. I will look into changing servers, finding something that better fits my interests and such. I may even perhaps learn something in the process. Keeping the network decentralized is important, and I can do my part.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can just create another account in another instance and run them side by side in a singular app. Switching back and forth is simple. I have a couple, reasons can vary, one would be that .world decided to take pirating communities off, to protect themselves. Whether they needed to or not, doesn't matter, it's their choice. I just hop to another instance to see those, but most of the content will be the same for me across instances because I haven't hunted to much for new subs. Probably should eventually.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Haha nah, when I first got to Lemmy I created an account on .ml, then .ca, made one on hexbear to understand who they were, one in world, and finally one on dbzero. Figured it couldn't hurt to find a community of people that was nice. Oh wait, forgot fedia.io when I wanted to figure out what they meant by seeing upvotes/downvotes and who was making them so I could understand more about the interworking of the instances.

Mostly I use world and dbzero now in Jerboa, fedia.io opens in the mbin app, so I haven't used it much. I kind of forgot about it till now.

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

You can easily export and import your subscriptions from the settings menu, so that makes changing instances quite easy

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

It's a shame that there isn't functionality for a full account port, including comments and posts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That can easily be abused to overload instances with a lot of content. It's also technically challenging due to the way comments are posts are linked

Mastodon does not offer it either:

Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

You can link to your former profile from your bio

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Their for the tip.