I like the focus on free expression and the loli/shota/cub policy! The admins seem pretty chill too!
Sorry that someone crashed your thread.
Burggit is the only instance that I have a feeling that I’m not swapping the repressive admin set from reddit for another repressive set from lemmy. I think the people of reddit are too used to being repressed. Being told what they can and can’t post. Your title needs to look like this, you need to have these tags in your post, you most post every source in an image. No photoshop. No AI. There’s certain body types you cannot post as determined by anyone who wants to use the report button. I see it on every instance where they preportally make a “safe space” by censoring and restricting the ever loving shit out of their community.
Every other instance I’ve seen has started where reddit left off: repressed enough to be advertisement friendly. I feel they do this because it’s all they’ve known recently.
In this instance, I see the seed of it not trying to be a no holds barreled 4chan knockoff like some instance are, but a site trying to be what reddit was - separate groups coming together to make a small community. Rules in place to carefully guide it from being taken down or becoming shit. Rules about behavior rather than content.
Thank you very much for those kind words. This made my night despite previously feeling admittedly defeated after getting defederated from yet another big community.
Which said big community was threatened with a defederation from other big instances if they don’t get rid of their r/the_donald knockoff sub that has only one person making milquetoast newsy posts.
I only found out because I wanted to chime in to defend them from the Reddit hivemind that was being completely unreasonable towards the instance operator. I wish them lots of luck and good will since they want to maintain their tolerant stance towards communities they disagree with, what with the said reddit janny hivemind taking hold across this part of the hilariously fractured fediverse.
Anyways, again, thank you. I needed this.
Look, I liked it when there was /l/ in imageboards and /r/lolicon in reddit could pass off without fuzz. Nice images, funny commentaries, 3DPD, etc. It also coincided with the 2000s when internet, or at least the places I frequented, still kept this chill party vibe of high school or college aged young adults cracking jokes without nosy parents.
We all know what happened gradually. Facebook became a thing, Linkedin became a thing, Serious Business™ was all over the place. As more people went online and also the amount of moralfaggots taking online banters at face value increased, “I’m against actual child abuse, but this is just a drawing” didn’t convince the growing crowd of Lawyers and Human Resources looking for reasons to fire you and make your life impossible.
So I pretended to grow up. I had bills to pay. Put on a suit and played the ‘pivoting synergy’ bullshit game to keep my ‘professional’ profile squeaky clean. But we have our own limits. Some actually drink the kool aid but I wasn’t born for that. I need my alone time. I need my shitposting faggotry intakes.
I searched for that place. The chans had changed a lot. Newfags didn’t know about Moot anymore. The reddit alternatives at the time like Voat and other “freedom loving” places were infested with either far right or far left, some even actual pedos. No thanks, I said.
So this is how I came to be. Will this be the place? No idea. I’ll stick around and see. We all knew it was ‘the internets’. We all knew it was a joke. None of this nazi bullshit pretending to be freedom fighters. Just plain childish fun.
Personally, I’m a fan of its paranormal nature:
Anyways, aside from virtually pantsing that absolute loser for shitting up a thread on our instance,
I like this instance the most because it’s nice meeting new people on here and seeing how nice well mannered free expression takes place here without the typical unwarranted namecalling you’d expect from the likes of 4chan, Kiwifarms, Gab, etc. As well as the lack of poison that is the neverending culture war that gets peddled on the typical alt-tech platform.
I just needed a new place to lurk and read stuff while procrastinating at work.
I find that both admins look level-headed which is a big plus for this instance. Fostering a nice community starts from the top imo.
I’m not a fan of lolis but I don’t think it should ever be banned either. I also agree with Burger’s comment that it “acts as a forcefield around us”. I think it’s one of those topics where people lose their mind entirely and never think twice about it.
Disagreeing on certain topics while being respectful and knowing that it harms no one is not really popular nowadays.