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sh.itjust.works

A reminder that users can nominate or discuss the addition or blocking of instances on the linked posts.

The mod team was pretty evenly split on adding this instance to our allow-list or leaving it off.

The instance has a very active games community, however it also has the MeanwhileOnGrad community.

https://sh.itjust.works/communities has a full list of their communities.

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We will wait for now and look at this again at the start of next month.

      • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        Just to be clear, I was saying it doesn't speak well of the admins of sh.itjust.works. I think it's fine for our admins to put it up for discussion

        • TheCaconym [any]
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          1 year ago

          That's how I understood your comment and I'm pretty sure the person you responded to did as well; talking about how it could get past a mod vote over there

          • silent_water [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            isn't the comm run by a single person? if they're the sole mod, it's not hard to see how.

        • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          tbf many other instances are more redditlike in that anyone can create a comm and make the banner image whatever they like. the admins haven't taken it down, yes, they are probably libs, but it doesn't mean they are any worse than lemm.ee, etc.

          • TheCaconym [any]
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            1 year ago

            This is a very good point and something I hadn't thought about

            The admins haven't deleted it mind you so it changes little but it does nuance things a bit, thanks

      • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        I was in favor of it basically because we are far more powerful posters and I'm not concerned about one shitty community. I'm glad it was brought to the users though because the hordes clearly disagree.

        • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          I don't think that's really fair to say, mods and admins haven't shown any tendencies like that. If we spread commie posting onto a new Reddit alternative platform with more posters than ever before, is that a bad thing? Just use local if you don't like the posts.

                • TheCaconym [any]
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                  1 year ago

                  I think there's always been a part of the community here that wants to do outreach and convince more people, and part that has always preferred to keep the tight community we have here between each other, with a steady trickle of new members; I've oscillated myself between both in the past

                  If there was an aim here, it was towards that outreach (that and hopes of revitalizing the discourse/community I imagine), not "inflicting hexbear upon lemmy" IMO; the few dunk threads (all in all there weren't that many) have just been a side-effect.

            • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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              1 year ago

              #1 can be rectified with a userscript (or mobile app that supports blocking whole instances)

              but otherwise fair enough. there's always been mixed feelings on what this site should be for