I found that the members of r/luckystar were saying very sexual things about characters that, while 18, had very child like designs. And even if, they were saying shit like, “Cunny!” and, “Correction!” so, yeah.
I constantly reported all posts and comments like that I came across and eventually made a post asking why they were saying things like that. I wasn’t hostile, and was in fact, rather calm about the situation. Meanwhile, they were all extremely rude and hostile towards my post, calling me names and such, and about 20 minutes later, my account was shadowbanned.
So, not only did Reddit moderation side with the pedos, they didn’t even have the decency to tell me what I did wrong. Assuming how it all happened so suddenly, I’m just gonna assume the pedos all mass-reported my account for God knows what. Any and all appeals I’ve mad since then received no response.
I still stuck around for a few months after that, [that whole deal happened back in May of 2025.] but the extreme leftist political dooming invading every corner of the website I used made it absolutely miserable to use.
Tonight, I finally put my foot down and said, “I quit!” I discovered this website and made an account here. I guess you can use this post to welcome me to the Fediverse.
Welcome! We don’t have pedos, but we do have our fair share of extremist leftists. I’d advice against visiting communities on the hexbear and lemmygrad instances if you are not pro-communism/russia/china.
Furthermore you might want to read up on the idea of “instances” and what makes the fediverse different from lemmy. It helps explain how communities work here, but you can also just figure it out on the go.
The lemmy.ml instance, for example, is the OG instance. It has a few far-left communities and users, but plenty of a-political communities and user as well.
My isntance, sh.itjust.works, is a general-purpose instance based in Canada.
You’re on PieFed, which is different from Lemmy for some reason haha.
So long as you block all the loli anime.
I’m glad nobody on this instance subscribes to that kind of content.
It’s all that Moe guy.
Moe Lester?
You’d think with a name like that they’d have caught him by now
Gods, yeah. There’s a lot of creepy shit floating around if you don’t have the NSFW filter on.
I don’t think it’s fair to say that we’re better than Reddit because the user base is better (we definitely have some amazing people though). Lemmy is better than Reddit because it’s decentralised and not under the thumb of a big corporation.
As far as I can tell, Piefed exists because some people didn’t like that the lemmy devs are communists.
I haven’t looked into piefed, I’m exclusively going off what pro-piefed/anti-lemmy users have said.
They’re not commies, they’re tankies.
Tankies are far removed from communism, they don’t care for communist ideals or communist values, they only care for authoritarianism.
Ok, guess I’ll go tell everyone part of an Actually Existing Socialist project to give up and shut it all down because some guy on the internet told me they’re actually authoritarian.
Open source doesn’t equal socialist lol
Otherwise, you’d have to argue that OpenAI is part-socialist since they have open source releases.
Actual Existing Socialism refers to countries that are working towards communism; socialist projects. Today that’s China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, DPRK, some may argue Venezuela, Bolivia, and others.
Ah, okay.
Now, I’m curious. What is socialism to you?
When the working class holds state power, a transitionary period as they build the conditions for communism.
If that’s the case, then why do workers have more rights and power in Western nations than those in Russia and China and in these other “Actual Existing Socialist” countries?
Why do you think most products are made in China? Because it’s cheap, including the labour.
I also figured that one of socialism’s core values is the eradication of private ownership, such as private property, which China still has.
I left lemmy because of the nutomic, yogthos, and dessalines. horrible people who have too much influence/control on all things lemmy and will ban/silence you for anything. check out !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
But then they could have used Mbin, which is older than Piefed?
Iirc wasn’t it because python is easier for beginners to learn than rust and php, so it’s easier to get more contributors and thus deliver features faster?
Piefed is way nicer to use than mbin, feature rich.
I’ve used all three mentioned. While I don’t like the lead Lemmy dev, I actually just like Piefed more it’s not just out of principal.
Piefed’s UI blows ass is the main problem I have.
Does piefed even have working apps yet?
I think there is one, maybe. Blorp?
Blorp dev here. Linking the GitHub page if you wanna see all the ways you can download Blorp https://github.com/Blorp-Labs/blorp
Voyager can feed on pie.
Isn’t the UI very similar or am I missing something? I didn’t see any major differences when initially comparing them except PieFed having some more features like reactions and cross post comment loading (which I don’t think is a thing in Lemmy?). I have mostly used PieFed since then though.
I, personally, think it’s very different. You may like it, and that’s totally cool. But like you said, I have used mostly Lemmy and I’m probably being pedantic.
That’s not right. If anything, the problem would be that they support aggressive authoritarian regimes or that they’re more anti-west than communist.
You confuse not supporting America’s hostile actions against foreign countries with supporting the actions by those governments.
The alternative stance, supporting hostile action against, China, Cuba, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, etc because they’re “authoritarian” is not materially different from the most blood thirsty ghoul who supports hostility because they believe they are inferior people whose labor and resources should be subjugated by the west.
Presumably you’re a liberal who understands Iraq and Libya are not a better places today because we “liberated” them from their authoritarian regime, and maybe you see through zionists who argue in bad faith that we can’t support Palestine because the struggle for LGBT+ rights hasn’t advanced as much, but maybe you’ve noticed a pattern that 1. being subjected to western media and education, you get a wildly distorted perspective of places America intends hostile action, and 2. Supporting hostile action against “the regime” from the west just means hostile action against those people. An Iranian might protest and organize to advance their struggle, the US starving and/or bombing them does not help them.
Still waiting on that answer…
Not doing this, go justify imperialism somewhere else.
Just so we’re clear, you’re outright lying.
I can show you Desellines explicitly supporting Russia against Ukraine.
So the real question is why are you lying?
Yes, opposing the US puppet, or more likely, opposing the US prolonging the war and human suffering, because like every other case of the last 75, the US is the greater evil.
The real question is why I bother responding to this bad faith horseshit.
Why are you just inventing versions of what Dessalines said?
Tankies gonna tankie, I guess.
All aggressive authoritarian regimes are bad and we should support none of them. The only reasonable side is against all of them.
You can’t stay still on a moving train. Your opposition to the west’s enemies, from within the west, is literally just supporting imperialism.
Are you saying the Lemmy devs don’t openly support aggressive, authoritarian regimes, like Russia?
other than the main one , are the other ones “far left”
You could just peruse their history.
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This really is the beauty of the fediverse: every instance has it’s own character, and even if we don’t agree on specific stances, we are still connected and it reduces the bubble effect massively. I believe this open discourse and the not-politial-motivated algorithm are the best way to reduce extremism, and if you don’t want to engage with a group you can filter it. @soggysandwich@piefed.social - if you find an instance which fits your believes better, don’t hesitate to switch, you can export and import your subscribed communities easily. Welcome!
oh my god i actually thought lemmy.ml stood for lemmy marxist-leninist this whole time.
it is now, it was general for tech people. but its mostly ultra-left propaganda vomit. if you look at how they comment is extremely uncanny if not similar to how right wingers comment. i also notice they are trying to takeover political memes community too.
It does, but it is also a general-purpose isntance. It was long the default landing page on join-lemmy.org, but that is no longer the case. That’s why there are a lot of people on there who aren’t lenninist-marxist. It is still one of the biggest instances.
It doesn’t, the Mali TLD was free/cheap for a while (no longer)