Can't speak for others, but my decision to stick with lemm.ee stemmed from seeing how active the owner is, the minimal defederation and the bot & moderation policies meaning there are minimal bots, and I've yet to currently see much spam issues, which is nice.

Also helps that the owner Sunaurus is an active contributor to the Lemmy project as a whole, so we get patches and fixes relatively quickly.

[–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

Because it is more open and lenient in not defedereting and as a user i can choose which subs and instances to block.

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its admin @sunaurus@lemm.ee wrote all about it here: https://lemm.ee/post/26

[–] cloudless@feddit.uk 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Thanks. Looking at the admin's profile, he seems to be very reasonable. I especially like this comment he made:

"Not sure if I actually have to justify removing soviet and/or nazi symbolism, but I have lived my whole life in a country on the border of Russia. My country been ravaged by both Nazis and Soviets in very recent history. I want to be clear that while I think criticising capitalism is totally normal and necessary, I am also extremely aware of constant Kremlin propaganda. Propaganda which is spread both in their media, but also crucially in online channels. Propaganda which includes things like downplaying horrifying actions of the soviet union, portraying their “enemies” (the west) in the worst possible light, and mixing in soviet symbolism wherever possible. I have no intention of allowing anything which resembles this propaganda to be spread through lemm.ee. If banning offending users does not work, then further steps will definitely be taken."

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yep ... seems refreshingly and perfectly reasonable to me.

[–] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My country been ravaged by both Nazis and Soviets in very recent history.

Poland?

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

History fits the majority of Eastern European countries but yes as said they are Estonian. Actually, now that I think about it can't really think of any Eastern European countries that it doesn't fit at all.

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eastern Europe had finally just stabilized a little bit it looked like. They’ve consistently gotten the short end of the stick from the superpowers in the region using their territory for war.

Hopefully after Ukraine is over (with Ukraine keeping all their land) there will be some stability in the region again

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Living next to Russia has never been easy. Living between Russia and Western powers has been worse. I'm Finnish and while we have not really seen ourselves as Eastern Europeans for a long time, we are. Just got lucky past century.

[–] beltsin@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Estonia I believe

[–] SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It says a significant chunk of their funding comes from users. Where does the other funding come from?

[–] jameseb@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The admin made a post reporting on the finances.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Good to see donations are keeping the place afloat!

[–] ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is github sponsorship? Are they advertising on that note instance?

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 10 points 1 year ago

GitHub sponsorships are a way of donating to programmers. In addition to hosting lemm.ee, sunaurus has made significant contributions to Lemmy's codebase. (In my opinion, he is by far the most skilled programmer working on Lemmy.)