I’ve been trying to make people aware of Lemmy on discord and Mastodon, but it’s always met with resistance citing “the devs are pro authoritarianism tankies.” Kbin seems to be picking up steam because of the developer baggage.

Do you feel like this negative perception will hamstring Lemmy’s growth?

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    Great effort post, but i think they can’t see it, lemmy.ca blocks lemmygrad I believe. Could a lemmy.ml or lemmy.world comrade repost this for them?

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      lemmy.ca blocks lemmygrad

      Insane that you can reply to someone but they can’t read it because of the instance they’re on.

      I can’t wait till this is abused.

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      1 year ago

      Oh really? That sucks. But if we’re blocked, how did @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca write in here through lemmy.ca? Did they just block us?

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        So the way it works, is that we’re on a post from lemmy.world. Since it federates with both lemmy.ca and lemmygrad.ml, users from both instances can make comments on these posts.

        Lemmygrad doesn’t block lemmy.ca, so we can see their comments. Lemmy.ca, however, blocks us, so they can’t see our comments

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          Ah thank you for the explanation. Just got here 5 days ago, so some of the fediverse things still are a bit confusing to me. But no matter, nice to have it written up anyway, I think some of the sources are pretty good to confuse liberals about their beliefs, so hope people here can use them.

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            1 year ago

            Well welcome! Hope you’re enjoying your time here :)

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              Well it is nice to write about politics without having 20 libs in my replies saying that I am supporting the death of the 86 billion people killed by Communism hahaha. I like it, it’s definitely better for my mood, and my eyes finally get to relax after having to roll them every time I scroll through the comments on Reddit.