No Stupid Questions
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Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
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Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
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Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
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Admin abuse: yea, but unlike reddit you can just move to another instance.
Reposting: you don’t have to subscribe to all communities. And you can block communities if you don’t want to see them in your local or all tab.
Privacy: depends on which instance you choose. Do your research.
Server: I am not sure about this, but I think the server strain is placed on the subs who generate the most content / have the most users. More users means more potential for donations, which means the devs can buy better servers.
Case in point on the admin thing: When the blackout thing started, two instances were the most recommended: Lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org.
Then Beehaw.org defederated from Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works using some extremely flimsy reasoning ("they have open applications, they're gonna fill with bad peeps uwu")
Instantaneously EVERYONE stopped recommending Beehaw as a home instance. It left everyone's consciousness entirely and you see little amount of communities hosted on it on community recommendation threads as well.
.ml also has potential problems, but people have abstracted themselves from it since, you know, so far the admins didn't allow themselves to get in the way of the usability of their site. Specially not at a critical moment of the Fediverse's growth.
I understand why people keep piling on Beehaw, but it feels to me like the people who make comments like this really don’t understand why they did it. I’m not speaking about the current lack of mod tools, but creating a space like Beehaw invites trolling.
I’m not a member of that server, but completely agree with what they’re out to do.