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Update: Instead of shutting down I am stepping down and defederating instances. We're moving to whitelisting. (vegantheoryclub.org)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by hamid@vegantheoryclub.org to c/announcements@vegantheoryclub.org
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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.

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[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

As someone from the outside VTC is one of my favorite places on the fediverse. I've only talked to a couple people from your instance but they are amazing and wonderful to chat with! I think the atmosphere here is awesome even though I don't interact much. The meals and gardens and articles from here are great to see!

It sucks that people have to interfere with others. I'm sorry having your space open to everyone isn't going how you wanted. Maybe it will be more enjoyable for you as a user within a walled community instead of dealing with other stuff and the community will continue to grow.

Sincerely I hope you feel better about things and find your own peace and happiness, whatever form that takes. Good luck friends!

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Props for providing infrastructure.

Your complaints are valid. Lemmy feels like a circle jerk, but I'm still compelled to post here.

I hope you have a better time on your next platform. o7

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Curious which communities on lemmy.ca are of issue? I'd like to know what my instance is doing if there are issues.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.org 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

I hear you and it feels like it's gotten worse recently. Thanks for trying and thanks for taking care of yourself.

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Best of luck to you.

[–] vtctechadmin@vegantheoryclub.org 5 points 2 months ago

This account will function as a technical admin account for if it is needed

[–] josie@vegantheoryclub.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I haven't been a user here for long, but I lurked the veganhomecooks subreddit and then this community for a couple of years. I'm sorry you've been getting harassed by the losers on here. For what it's worth I agree with your anti-US sentiment and think the drive-by downvotes are fucking annoying. I find a lot of Lemmitors are simply morons who treat Lemmy as another Reddit and as such it has a lot of similar problems to Reddit.

Either way, thank you for setting this place up. I have enjoyed my time here even if it might not be for long.

[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 3 points 2 months ago

Thank you. I think I have a plan. Arcane Potato is going to become the admin and I'm going to defederate lemmy.ca and possibly other generalist instances. I will also purge all liberal communities from being federated including any communities repeating any state propaganda.

[–] YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is my instance defederated as well?

[–] Alliegaytor@vegantheoryclub.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

dbzer0 is still federated. I have accounts on both and haven't seen any indication that either instance will defederate from one another

[–] Arcanepotato@vegantheoryclub.org 4 points 2 months ago

You can see the whitelist here: https://vegantheoryclub.org/post/355084

it's still federated.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

What is the issue with lemmy.ca? Unlike .ml or hexbear I have not heard of them.

[–] MsSprouts@vegantheoryclub.org 4 points 2 months ago

The Lemmy.ca moderation team took the side of a dubvee.org admin who was cursing, being ableist, banning random leftist users who have never posted on their instance while labeling them as extremists in the modlogs and causing drama.

The lemmy.ca has the flaws of carnism and americentrism. They will gladly side with anyone who supports American imperialism and animal abuse because its what they agree with.

[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 3 points 2 months ago

Hosting drama communities with the intent to target users for harassment.