oh cool, I’ll definitely check it out !

they should do it without vulgar insults or baseless slander.

Fair enough.

Look, that’s how Lemmy works, because “Lemmy” doesn’t realy exist, it’s just software. There’s no need for a ban appeal or anything, because if you got banned, they don’t want you, ever. Some instances do make their admin’s contacts public, such as Lemmygrad’s, so you could try messaging them on Matrix or something… Though I would not keep my hopes up. You could always make a new account, I think. To check details, by the way, you just go to the bottom of the page and click Modlog and then input the username you want to check. Here is a direct link to checking @[email protected]’s modlog.

You can do this for any user on any instance, but certain instances don’t federate modlogs well with each other, so it’s best to check each instance’s modlog for instance-specific information.

Each instance has its culture and expectations. There’s instances out there for you, I’m sure! Best of luck! And sorry you had such… Negative… first experiences.

I checked, and you weren’t really banned from Lemm.ee, the mod comment says you can come back in 2 weeks. Still, getting rocked by Lemm.ee means you did something wrong for sure… I can’t see what you said, but “Russian propaganda” shows up more than once.

Complaining about right-wing attitude while getting banned from Lemmygrad and Hexbear… HEXBEAR?! How did you even do that… For denouncing age-ism, you say… I wonder what you said.

What Mastodon instance did you get banned from, just out of curiosity?

What I can say is that you really need to tone it down or find an instance that has a no-ban policy. Of course, that sort of instance gets de-federated FAST… You seem to be going around causing mayhem. No offense.

Culture and userbase behaviour are just or even more important than the list of features or the UI style when it comes to choose the best place for you on the Fediverse.

Well, I guess that’s a factor. I haven’t really experienced this, as someone that uses mostly Lemmy and Mastodon. I don’t know, I’m speaking from a place of profound ignorance on that front.

You say that some are “gonna get culled” but, with exception of projects that were dropped due to personal issues with the devs, but that all somehow live in the form of forks, the Fediverse is expanding and the diversity of platform types is getting greater each day. In fact, there are categories where more diversity of software is needed.

Yeah I mean, if culture is the breaker then that’s that, right? I was thinking pretty exclusively thru the lens of software, and I don’t believe that there’s enough granularity in use-cases to justify all these options, especially considering they are very much evolving, adding features, improving on several fronts… Intuitively, I think they’d be converging towards a feature niche. The Fediverse is growing, so it grows in every direction and in every way, but, as it matures, I’d expect it to grow narrower. Or… Spikier, since there are several niches… I don’t know if spikier gets across what I mean, sorry about that.

If, as you say, there’s a cultural aspect to using a certain software-base as opposed to another, then that’s a whole other thing. Very interesting… I just hadn’t thought of that.

I see, I see… Thanks for the explanation, that’s exactly what I wanted to know!

Well… Is that true, I wonder. Is that what decentralization means?

Software wise, these are open-source projects with strong community contribution. Just a few major players doesn’t imply just a few major servers, so no one company or project can ever truly dominate.

Additionally, just the threat of forking could be enough of a deterrent for more authoritarian services not to implement anti-user features. Say Lemmy sells out or something; Lemmy.ml might turn bad, but that means nothing to .world or .ee or any other server. They can just… Not update. Not implement the bad features. Lemmy can just be forked. That’s not like Twitter or Facebook.

Right?

I’m not a tech wizz or anything, but that’s my understanding of the spiel of the thing of the stuff.

Maybe… I do see your point.

I’m really excited for the future of the Fediverse, with all these apps, but it’s just too much…

I’m not advocating for anything, but some of these are definitely gonna get culled.

The whole fediverse is pretty cluttered to be honest.

Truer things have been said, but not many.

There’s so many different services with similar features… The amount of Mastodon-like things is just overwhelming. The threadiverse is also a little hard to wrap one’s head around.

Thanks, I’ll check it out :D

I guess it really is one of those things… If what you post is cool, people would want to know about it, so you’d actually be doing them a favor by sharing!

You have some pretty cool posts actually :D

I’ve learned about so many different federated services with this post, it’s crazy…

What do you like about Wafrn?

Quite frankly, I feel like Misskey/Sharkey/Mastodon/Pleroma are basically the same. I mean, sure, they do have some differences, but it really doesn’t matter. Maybe I’m missing something, but I’m very meh on all of those. I keep Mastodon, but that’s it.

Also, thoughts on Piefed vs Lemmy? I’ve been getting a lot of feedback on that and I’m starting to get the impression Piefed has a lot of potential, maybe more than Lemmy. What do you think?

Hmm, I see, makes sense. Whatever works for you!

I’ve gotten a surprising amount of Friendica replies on these posts… I thought there would be way less.

Oh… That’s interesting. I think I’ve heard of it, but I don’t know anything about it. A quick look-through makes it sound very interesting… I’ll definitely check it out.

Do you have any suggestions on how to get started using hubzilla?

…Mastodon to replace Facebook? Why not Friendica? Usually, Mastodon is framed more as a sort of Twitter.

Evidently!

Why Mbin, though?

What do you think of Pixelfed? I hear it’s kinda like Instagram, but how is the interop with the rest of the Fediverse?

I’m terribly sorry, but moist cat sweat is so funny I can’t even begin to understand why you wouldn’t want to join that.