As someone who got started with Linux using Mint too years ago I think you got a great selection there and I wouldn’tup listen too much to the comments, big oarts of the Linux crowd on Lemmy came from Lemmy and it’s toxic and shitty so they will tell you you are wrong no matter what you do or say and recommend terribble things to newcomers! Just flash Mint Cinnamon or Elementary on a USB stick, boot them up and play around with both before you decide which you want to install. I am a Fedora Gnome user myself and as someone who probably values simplicity (mac user) Gnome could be interesting to check out too but it’s very different to anything else out there and you already got two great options to try there! :)

Am I glad that I barely interact with lemmy world anymore…

If they write a thread with questionable reasoning I would expect them to include the actual reason as well or skip the thread but you guys are right, I don’t own a instance so I don’t have a clue about those actions…

The original removal thread cited the report of a user who got banned from dbzer0 for transphobic messages and made a fresh account on lemmy.world just to report them and talked about potentially copyrighted material they don’t want to store. None of that matched with the responses from dbzer0 or my own experience on that instance. The Piracy and Arnachy instance has been one of the best examples of good moderation and civil behaviour on Lemmy since they moved here.

You announced a clear reasoning publically that included a lot of questionable stuff, I am sorry if you got actual takedown requests too but I can’t know those if you don’t announce them. Again I won’t claim that this can’t cause you any trouble, just that the thread you published about blocking them wasn’t great…

I am fairly sure that good parts of that post are lies, I looked quite close at the situation when it happened and from all I could find those “takedown requests” was a single troll who got banned dbzer0 for their right extreme garbage. You also made claims about unmoderated illegal material in those communities which was simply wrong but I would have understood the move if you explained it like you do here right from the start and it’s great to see a mistake reversed! I am not going to pretend that this Federation while not actually illegal can’t cause annoyances and it’s great to see you reverse it despite that, keep it up! :)

You are on Lemmy.world pal, I left that instance because it’s too neo liberal and right leaning for my taste… Are you by any chance a american because unless you post in Lemmy.ml all the time I can’t really imagine that from a european perspective! If you count the facists from Hexbear and Lemmingrad that you instance defederated from as left (which they really aren’t by the original definition of the left/right devide) it might be but I think unless you try to spill neo liberal garbage the backlash will probably be limited tbh!

Reddit is driven by search traffic and the results got a lot worse since a lot of good posters quit. They lost the content but not the users yet, I think it’s just going to take a long time before they truly see the damage in their traffic statistics!

Well, Tiktok demotes china critical accounts and promotes china friendly ones, people who tried it came to the conclusion that’s it’s roughly by the factor 10 so they aren’t even hiding it!

Everything fucked up western social media dose but time two and with a grain of chinese propaganda!

Reddit sucks but xitter and tiktok easily rub the floor with it!

I mean, hot naked people seem to be one of their best selling point so it’s a very fitting bug for sure!

My humor is fucking dark so I had to laugh but that one dose go a little far, it’s a good joke but with that timing I certainly wouldn’t make it!

They are certainly cooler than you and I can tell that from three really stupid messages, you aren’t on Reddit anymore pal!

It’s actually not that expensive but moderating that shit is horrible!

We all know the BIGGEST promoter of the Fediverse but he’s certainly the biggest for Lemmy!

The feature is actually older than any cookie banner (do not track request) but idk if the EU will overwork the law that way, it’s a miracle that it passed at all and I would be surprised if the loopholes aren’t made for some lobbyists in the first place!

I couldn’t agree more, a single look at our newspapers in Austira reveals a sad trueth, even the good ones use illegal “consent or pay” cookie banners!

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The method of “enforcment” for that part of the GDPR is awful but for a big and fairly hated player like Reddit it will probably actually work, some organization or competitor just has to file a formal complaint. There was some NGO a few years ago that filed cimplaints against various big players and got platforms like Twitch to fix their banners that way but idk what happened to them!