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I learned just recently that dbzer0 has a great piracy community that is blocked by lemmy.world . I'm not saying I'm looking to switch instances or anything, but it did get me wondering what else might be blocked by my instance that I wasn't previously aware of.

While we're at it, I'm curious what communities might notably be blocked on other instances as well. So we might as well just make this a question about what might be blocked by any particular instance, not just my instance.

So, what's blocked on some instances that folks might not have realized is blocked?

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[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

EDIT: Lol I didnt even read the post. I got so excited and jumped into comments. 😅

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (blocked by lemmy.world instance)

Sail free on the High Seas! 🏴‍☠️

[-] guaraguaito 10 points 2 weeks ago

!comicstrips@lemmy.world

is blocked on my instance (lemmy.blahaj.zone). Because the lead mod was banned from blahaj for posting a (non-political) comic strip made by a nazi sympathiser and not apologising.

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[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 31 points 2 weeks ago

Make accounts on 2-3 instances. It's worth it.

[-] Chromebby@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah for example I started on lemmy.world and then there was some defederation drama. So I made an account on lemmy.today because they don't block any instances. Just to give me the entirety of the fediverse. Plus it's good to have a backup in case a server goes down.

[-] guaraguaito 6 points 2 weeks ago

I think a lot of people start on Lemmy.world and lemmy.ml but then overtime switch to other instances they made alts on. I think it’s a cool way that things work and centralisation gets avoided.

[-] MangoPenguin 2 points 1 week ago

That sounds exhausting switching between them.

[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I haven't checked out Beehaw in a while, but I used to enjoy spending time there. Some people didn't like it because of how heavily they curated their instance, but I really enjoyed how polite it was. It ultimately discouraged a lot of people from going there, which they saw as good, but most outsiders saw as bad.

As .world ramped up in volume, I had more and more to interact with here, and I ran out of time to be instance hopping so I haven't checked what they're up to lately.

Overall, blahaj seems to have done a better job doing something similar while not alienating people. But if you want to see a Lemmy instance that decided to take the route less taken, maybe give them a look.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Overall, blahaj seems to have done a better job doing something similar while not alienating people.

No. They're quite good at alienating people, too. Especially when the admin self-admits to banning anyone she personally disagrees with.

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Blahaj not alienating people? Did we miss the whole "ban everyone who doesn't support drag, the anti-trans troll" saga?

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[-] murmelade@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago

Instance drama is becoming real fucking tiresome on Lemmy.

[-] CBYX@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago

But here we have alternatives.

Switch servers and avoid power tripping mods.

The main thing is needing to know what's going on

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[-] hightrix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It’s unfortunate. A lot of the first movers that set up early instances during the Reddit blackout are not the type of people that should be running these things.

Think Reddit powermods but more unhinged and extreme.

[-] Aurix@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The dbzer0 thing is not because of simple drama, but because lemmy mirrors contents onto the server itself. To not become liable for piracy, they blocked the instance, because it was linking pirate content. Even on reddit you were never allowed to post that.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

In LW you can't see Beehaw. Haven't been on beehaw in a while, but it has some really great people. I think Hexabear or whatever it's called is blocked too. They are more negative, like reddit was when I left.

You can look at the federated instances in the stats tab on the LW main page. There are also some radical extreme Right instances like Brighton on that list. Most of the rest are some of the paraphilia instances and trolls.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 12 points 2 weeks ago

If you're talking about blocking specific communities, I'm not aware of any other major ones. Lemmy.world is the largest instance, so most likely to be targeted by legal threats, and run by volunteers, so not worth going to jail over.

Entire instance blocks are pretty common though. Ignoring spam instances, the commonly blocked ones would be Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and Hilarious Chaos (previously called Exploding Heads).

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[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

You might consider making accounts on different instances because over my time here I've had to hop back and forth multiple times over update issues and server issues.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Arnl@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

I created new account yesterday just because of this

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Enjoy lemm.ee, it's great!

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[-] MangoPenguin 3 points 1 week ago

I've been debating setting up my own instance for just me, but it's not the easiest to set up, and I feel like storage will become an issue.

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