I don’t recall asking you for help. Thanks, though. :)

If I go with an instance that is militant about not defederating, I have to put up with the right wing nut jobs. But if I choose an instance that does defederate, I can’t talk about the topics I come here to discuss. There’s no winning move here, for me. :(

I was sucked in by the promise of an open platform, but it’s just more of the same under different masters. And at least there I’m not banned from discussing the topics I wish to discuss. Got a better option? I’d love to hear it. Tildes wants nothing to do with drugs.

Brutal. sh.it and lemmy.ca both pre-emptively ban porn. .world bans everything fun. Rolling my own instance means I need to become an expert in securing a public facing server. Guess Lemmy is gonna fail, what possible use is it like this? Back to Reddit, at least there I can talk about things that matter to me, even if I’m being abused by a corporation while I do it. Who’d have thought corporations would be the last holdouts for free speech?

What are your thoughts on communities about drugs? Pretty big topic for me, although the drug subs mostly haven’t moved here yet, is that because you ban them? If so, I’m wasting my time waiting for them here.

Is that why I got cloudflare banned last night? All I did was click my Local Top Day bookmark.

Would not be opposed to a new community that focuses on the business side of tech companies!

Like it or not, it’s tech news. When Intel does something interesting, or Google wets the bed again, we’ll talk about that a lot, then. Right now it’s Elon doing dumb stuff. Last month it was spez. If we ban every hot news topic, what’s left to discuss?

Report issue. You’re not running an adblocker! wink What’s an adblocker??

Google already has trouble with support, if they have a million lightly befuddled users who are getting blocked and “don’t know why”, that will be a problem for Google.