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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

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

[email protected] (blocked by lemmy.world instance)

Sail free on the High Seas! 🏴‍☠️

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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