Shoutout for PieFed

I mainly use(d) Reddit for Piracy content (Piracy, PiratedGames, Steam Deck Pirates etc). When the migrate happened, saw they made a Piracy Lemmy instance and just joined that.

I was originally on programming.dev, but they had a database issue that lasted for weeks where lots of content would never appear. Someone suggested .zip and it’s been great. There is monthly communication/state-of-the-server posts, and otherwise it just works.

.dev was fixed long ago and I still maintain an account there, but I am invested in .zip at this point.

The SDF started back in the late 80’s as a anime dial up BBS. SDF is a reference to the anime Robotech, A show released in the 80’s but that I grew up watching as a kid in the 90’s.

In the early 2000’s, I was trying to figure out this thing called Linux, I found a site that would give me access to a unix machine for free and it had a name and logo that reminded me of the anime I loved as a kid. While poking around I found that they had a fairly active message board, were willing to give me an email address, usenet access (albeit, limited), and would host small personal web site for me if I wanted. They were my primary email address through most of the 00’s before I, regrettably now, switched to gmail like everyone else.

Fast forward to 2022, and I find out that there is this thing called Lemmy and it’s supposed to be like Reddit but better. So I put up my own server… and it crashed and burned. Mainly due to my own stupidity. I failed to make backups and borked an update.

While I was playing with my own server, I found something interesting. Not only was the SDF still kicking, but they had decided to host Lemmy and Mastodon servers as well. So I signed up for both and started donating to the SDF again. Been here ever since. Good place, decent folks. I don’t see myself going anywhere else for a while.

Furry. Some choices make themselves.

In all honesty, I’ve been in the fandom for years. External opinions fluctuate with the times, but if there’s one thing furries know how to do it’s build community with tech, adamantly support human rights, and be vehemently anti-establishment (EDIT: and apparently not count, I got distracted mid-sentence). A++, love being a stupid animal.

i had an .ml account since much before the 2023 reddit exodus, but later realized some controversies related to the .ml operators and decided to move. i had heard of sdf.org before and noticed they created a fresh lemmy instance so i signed up. these days there doesn’t seem to be much maintenance done though… (at least communication wise)

Only one that let me in (besides Lemmy NSFW)

The internet is a series of tubes, but unfortunately, I don’t understand plumbing

I’d seen a lot of posts from blahaj’s admin, @[email protected], and I really liked her admin/moderating philosophy (particularly this post, which I have bookmarked it’s so good), and it was also where the big /c/196 community was. I don’t like having to deal with a whole subset of online people, and Ada does a really bangup job of banning those kind of troublesome people before I ever even see them or have to interact with them. My personal blocklist is almost empty, because Ada does such a good job of preventing me from having to interact with those people. Anyway, thanks for all the hard great work, Ada! You make my Lemmy experience so much more pleasant!

I joined .ml because the devs are there.

Then I interacted with people, and realized that was a big mistake.

Spent some time on LBZ, but the admin is making a few too many choices for the users (I’ll block my own assholes, thanks)

So now I’m on sh.itjust.works

I started out on .world; then i found dbzer0.com, which aligns a lot more with my values (i personally am a socialist who also likes the idea of communism, but in the end i am simply against concentration of power and exploitation), and then i switched over to anarchist.nexus so i could use piefed instead of lemmy itself; the last move was a consequence of the lemmy devs being shitheads, even if they create good software. I still use the dbzer0 account while on my phone, tho.

SDF Lemmy doesn’t block anyone, so I alone get to choose who and what I get to see. Plus, SDF.org is older than I am, so I can rely on it being around for a while.

Biggest local one, I think. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Mine is self hosted. I like having control.

I can also experiment with bots this way.