Yeah, I’m housing and food insecure and stuck living in an environment which decimates my ability to work due to sensory issues. It is fucking brutal.

Nice!

I have been considering making some less-niche communities than the ones I’ve already made, but I have health issues which cause me to disappear occasionally for a day or three, which gives me pause. And I don’t really know anybody well enough to be a Number One to my Picard or whatever when it comes to running a community.

Actually, if I had this question settled, I’d almost certainly be running an entire small threadiverse instance by now, and a microblogging one too. And maybe a Pixelfed for good measure.

To anybody concerned: don’t engage with .world communities. Instead, bring your traffic to similar communities on other instances. The ability to do this is one of the main points of federation, and .world with its shitty moderation holds way too much sway in the (let’s be honest) still-tiny threadiverse.

It’s easiest to do this, on Lemmy at least, by blocking .world as an instance. Doing so won’t block .world users commenting elsewhere, although when Lemmy 1.0 ships you’ll have that option too. But blocking .world forces you to build a vibrant thriving threadiverse elsewhere without a too-large and too-problematic instance siphoning away any of your traffic and growing even larger as a result. I do this, and I don’t feel I’m missing out by doing so.

can you imagine what this dude was like in primary skool

instance block and move on 👍

Also! We still can’t block communities we’ve been banned from? Wtf?

The more I use this software the more problems I see, not surprising given the developers. Hopefully Piefed can keep up with quality control over time.