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.

Please do not emoji spam on other instances, consider linking to the Polite Politics Button instead.

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

    • 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