Fediverse

You'd think niche communities... niche servers... what a match, right? My communities were deleted or removed from all three Lemmy servers, even after being approved.

This was confusing to me. I've literally never heard of this happening. New communities are formed every day. Surely there much be some way to explain the unknown-to-me world this man experienced, where the admins started up their server just rubbing their hands together waiting for someone to try to start a community so they can DELETE IT! And then run off into the night, howling with laughter.

We were migrating two weeks worth of content (25-30 posts) just like we said we would do in our application. They suggested a third server (can't find the name/application now) which we applied to, got approved on, and let us post for two days before deleting us.

A haaaaa. The critical issue.

I've formed a few different communities on Lemmy. Only one was going to post-spam like this, and I talked with people on the server to make sure it wouldn't be an issue, and when it was, I found another place for my thing and moved it there instead. Everyone's happy. No one had to delete anything, and no one took any kind of attitude like their response was "unwelcoming." We just worked it out. Honestly all this would have taken would have been just not migrating the previous posts over, and creating a fresh community instead. Boom. Everyone's happy.

This attitude "YO YOU BETTER FIGURE IT OUT FOR ME OTHERWISE I WON'T BLESS YOUR NETWORK WITH MY PRESENCE." Dude Lemmy admins are not your parents. It's a culture of people who work together. Just talk to them, work something out, don't come in with what you want to do as your list of demands, and then if it doesn't make sense storm off in a huff demanding better service in the future.

So someone scripted post spam in the name of migration and got salty that they were treated like spam. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was through an automated processes during all the intentional spam instances we’re getting.

Very much agree with others here, dude should’ve tried to have a conversation with admins and stop spamming old content.

we also cant possibly know which of these are astroturfing reddit admins.

how many comms Ever get deleted outright, but this guy had 3 on separate instances?! bullshit.

I agree. This cant happen, especially not without explanation/discussion.

But I didnt catch what the communities were either, did you? Be a shame if it was something like white_supremacist_tech_support or something.

Especially ml where you have your account isnt keen on views from the other end of the political spectrum afaik. Nothing wrong with that but just saying. World is very mainstream and maybe they just triggered something.

Not saying thats what happened, just trying to think of reasons and possible solutions.

The reports get wild when a single user posts multiple content in a row. It floods your All feed and can be quite annoying. What is the point of old content we’ve probably seen already? Instead of them wrapping their head around the users point of view, they’re just throwing a fit.

I could see people not wanting someone to post 30 times in a short time. It’s not hard to keep up with the Lemmy new feed so it gets a bit annoying when a bot starts blasting.

As a side note, it’s pretty funny to see people responding to posts like they’re being specifically targeted. I remember some dude posted a question in “foo” and another dude was like “idk I’ve never used foo”

I found that funny af

I call bullshit.

It's not that easy being free Having to wonder if you picked the right instance When I think it could be nicer being Zucked or Musked or Spez'd - or something much more profitable like that.

It's not easy being free. It seems you vibe with so many other federated things. And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're not standing out like influencers in the feeds - or big brands in the web.

But free's the color of fedi. And free can be cool and friendly-like. And free can be big like an ocean, or dank like a meme, or round like a blobcat.

When free is all there is to be It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why? Wonder, I am federated and it'll do fine, it's pretty good most of the time!

And I think it's what I want to be.