Lemmy is bullshit and the people awful. At least Reddit is free, I was donating to the Lemmy developers and paying to host my own social media. I have cancelled both.

A little bit about myself: I am a real person with issues. I was lucky to be able to figure out enough masking skills to hold down a job and have a family but yeah, I’m not normal.

I’m not interested in paying to be harassed by people like “ptz” who are pretending to take a high ground or instances that host communities designed to torment people like lemmy.ca, I’m not interested in random people downvoting my posts on my server for my friends. I’m not interested in people constantly repeating US politics and propaganda. Lemmy fucking sucks, I tried my best to make it better but to be honest, I don’t think it is me, it is you.

I appointed a friend as admin for the time being. If she likes it I will consider paying for the hosting.

Good bye, thanks for not fishing.

    • Luci@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      I see. I respectfully disagree with OPs take on this for the following reasons:

      1. Don’t donate to the idiot devs of lemmy. They are transphobic idiots who don’t actually understand socialism.
      2. This is a function of the software that is lemmy. There are options for this issue (disable downvotes, block instances that don’t mesh with you, better moderation and pr)
      3. This is very reactionary and just stirs the pot.
      4. Drama communities exist on most major instances, fedilore is a popular one. You should work with instance admins when you have problems with other communities.

      Anyways, that’s just my take/opinion. To each their own.

      OP: reconsider shutting down the instance and consider making changes. There are loads if like minded people on lemmy (even lemmy.ca) who enjoy this instance and would volunteer to assist with moderation.

      • hamid 🏴@vegantheoryclub.orgOPM
        4·
        1 month ago

        This is social media for real people and hosting drama communities is an express intent to harass people. I’m considering defederating lemmy.ca and almost all the generalist instances.