Deruem

Sweet Life, Vending Machine, Am I The Strongest, Heretical Last Boss… If you couldn’t tell, I like isekai.

Helck seems like it’ll be pretty fun too.

I definitely think that sticking with our policies is far more important than worrying about federation, since what matters most is what our users think of us, not what other users think of us. I saw someone compare this to countries in the past, where you’re going to put the needs of your country over the needs of others. I think that’s fairly accurate for this.

While I would love to see this instance grow, that does make sense. If one wants to see the other stuff that badly, they can join the other instances. There wouldn’t be much of a reason, in my mind, to sacrifice the ‘identity’ of the instance just for that.

Though I may be a bit biased in that regard. Not a lot of forums are labelled as ‘loli friendly’.

As for the other point you mentioned… I could see that. That happened even on reddit, with whole subreddits sometimes banning users who participated in one subreddit or another.

That leads me to ask, why do so many instances defederate this community in particular? For instance, lemmy.one as of now lists this as the only blocked community! Why??!! I’m guessing maybe people see that it’s loli friendly and assume it’s a place full of actual pedos without actually looking at the content of the site to see that it’s not.

That would be my impression…

In general whenever the topic of ‘loli’ comes up it’s filled with vitriol and hate by those against it. Honestly, I don’t even hold them being against it against them; It’s something that a lot of people find reprehensible, and is illegal in a lot of places. I can understand not wanting to accidentally come across it.

I just wish these people didn’t assume the worst in those of us into that. The sheer level of vitriol and contempt gets to me, sometimes.

…Well, in any case, it’s most likely the loli thing. That seems to be the justification I’ve seen in most threads talking about defederating burggit, anyway.

I was trying to move on from Reddit anyway, so I tried to see if there were any Lemmy instances more accepting of my interests. A quick google search later, and here I am.

Silver-lining, at least it helps to grow this instance?

Still a bit of a shit circumstance for those affected, though. I would assume they’d like to feel welcomed and accepted on the larger instance.