I’ve slowly become familiar with lemmy and learned the things like blahajj is an ally of trans but hides downvotes and kbin shows how you vote to others etcetc. i don’t even know what hexbear is but hear it’s ideologically wonky.

Lots of Lemmy instances basically have some decent aspects, but then something about them is a total dealbreaker.

I’ve started looking at moderation histories when coming across content removed by moderators and am now able to distinguish instances where ideologies not aligned with their admins get censored. I first noticed it when checking why certain posts were removed on Lemmy.ml and had to research lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don’t want. I had a run in with a drama on Lemmy.world and curiously checked their mod log to realize that they actually quite often remove comments that don’t match their ideology (along with finding controversial historical actions of .world).

So after all this getting to know instances involved in lemmy, you know which one has no weird dealbreaker attributes that I know of? I just realized tonight which one it is…

sh.itjust.works

So cheers everyone.

Admins and Mods here you are doing great. Community, you are doing great too. grats on being the best instance

  • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I think some guy on reddit told me this was the best Canadian instance. Glad I’m here, they were right.

  • Draconic NEO@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    I agree, as it stands sh.itjust.works has one of the best instances in my opinion. At least for users who are new to Lemmy since it has the easiest signup and is also very stable.

  • ElPsyKongroo@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    I came here since Reddit killed third party apps, so I don’t even remember how I chose my instance anymore. I guess someone recommended sh.itjust.works somewhere? Tbh I don’t know a lot of the differences between instances (except some well known ones like tankie .ml), but I have no complaints about this instance I’m on. Although I’m not really super active, in all fairness.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Db0 is pretty fucking dope ngl. Their piracy megathread alone brings them over the top. The lack of censorship is just icing on the cake.

  • bund@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    lol exactly why i came here but juste used the vibe -o-meter to know it was here that the internet should just be a stupid forum for stupid posts for stupid people stupid is interchangeable with funny

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Lol I got banned from their NCD instance for saying the US wouldn’t allow Ukraine to join NATO.

    Bunch of reddit migrant cowards

  • med@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Here is where I started, here my I be hurried. Love the ethos, love the mods, love the stability! (Great job @TheDude@sh.itjust.works).

    Also, SJWBot still makes me laugh every time I see it.

  • stringere@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    I chose it for the clever URL not knowing much when I first came to lemmy. Happy circumstance that it ended up being a solid choice. :)

    Cheers to the mods and admins for making this a great place.

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      Love it too, but I don’t understand why they didn’t go with shit.just.works, unless of course just.works was already taken (wouldn’t be surprised). Or maybe it’s actually supposed to be “sh, it just works”?

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 days ago

        It is my understanding of history that The_Dude had the domain itjust.works, and when choosing a subdomain for the Lemmy instance, some absolute genius suggested “sh”.

      • angrystego@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        I think it does have several ways of being read, deliberately so. I saw someone explaining it as some kind of programmer in-joke as well.

        • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Maybe. Sh is an unpopular uncommonly used shell, though many scripts are made sh compatible for wide compatibility

            • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
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              1 day ago

              Yes. Bash is descended from sh, and will run sh scripts, but it isn’t sh

                • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
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                  1 day ago

                  Linux uses “magic numbers” to determine file types, extensions are just for people who like them and MS Windows

                  For shell scripts the magic number is ‘#!’ and is always followed by the path to the shell that interprets the script type (eg the first line might be ‘#!/bin/bash’)