Director’s cut WAS a good movie, Alien Cubed is a masterpiece and MUCH better than Aliens

“hide of a wild beast” is unfortunately as specific the histories go.

I was always uncomfortable with the name, for multiple reasons. I took over the HistoryPorn comm when it was abandoned by the original mods, and so didn’t have the choice to change the name.

For one, I run several history comms, and having people think HistoryPorn was just ‘interesting things about history’ instead of ‘photos, specifically’ was annoying.

Two, sometimes gruesome or somber events are discussed and depicted in the comm, and “HistoryPorn” seems a bit weird when talking about the Holocaust.

Third, I am a joyless, humorless robot.

Just a reminder to everyone that the comm is making the move to !historymemes@piefed.social !

Fuck. I’m tech illiterate, what can I say?

Hey, just letting you know that the comm is moving to !historymemes@piefed.social

Don’t worry, you don’t need to move your Lemmy.world account! The comm is moving, but you can participate as normal with a Lemmy.world account.

Unfortunately, I’m entirely new to creating feeds, so I’m pretty limited in my ability to troubleshoot problems there.

I considered it when I was looking around for Lemmy alternatives, but Piefed felt more intuitive to me.

Hey! Just wanted to let you know that we’re making the move to !historymemes@piefed.social !

Hm. Very curious. I’ll edit it, thanks!

Damn. It works from lemmy.world. Any suggestions for a fix or alternative?

I appreciate the concern, but honestly, I don’t think that there’s going to be any concerted .ml campaign to troll the new or old comm. I mean, I’m not exactly subtle about anti-tankie posting, including anti-tankie history memes here. They dislike me, I dislike them, mostly we stay out of each other’s spaces.

In any case, the door’s always been open for new moderators.

As outlined in the text body, it’s not an issue of .ml’s influence. It’s an issue that continuing to use Lemmy as a platform places users in a position of either hampering the health of the platform (by opposing contributions to the devs) or enabling genocide denial and imperialism apologia (by contributing to the devs).

Ultimately, whether you make the move with us is your choice.

Thank you! Honestly, hearing that people enjoy the memes I post makes my day.

No, you can also donate money to independent servers like Lemmy.world and support them and the ecosystem without the awful devs.

Supporting the Lemmy.world server doesn’t address the issue of the sustainment and development of the Lemmy codebase, though. Sustaining an individual server and Lemmy development are two different concepts - Lemmy.world is not, to my knowledge, working on an independent fork of Lemmy.

Independently to that, why do you use Piefed and not Kbin?

Kbin went down. It was my initial platform of choice.

I considered Mbin, but I found Piefed to be more intuitive and responsive - at least to my perception as a user after a year of operating on Lemmy.

lol look a history memes mod spouting historically inaccurate fascist and empire propaganda. Now I’ve seen everything!

What?

Okay, I think I got 'em all here!

https://piefed.social/f/pugmigration

Sure thing! Just give me one sec!

I am confused, maybe you can help me out. As a layperson about the technical details behind the fediverse, how are piefed and lemmy different from one another (from a user perspective, or is it just admin and mod tools?)

From a user perspective there are a few differences - Piefed supports flairs, for example. Mostly it’s the same concept, though, just a slightly different layout. I’m a layman and not code-oriented myself, so I couldn’t give you the details, but I’m given to understand that the basis of the code of the two systems are different, though I have to admit to being unable to follow the arguments or judge their relative merits. Some arguments about the coding language of Piefed being better suited to big projects, something like that?

There are some differences with admin and mod tools as well, including managing bans without having to use third-party tools. As a mod, the mod tools for Lemmy are incredibly sparse.

and how are the lemmy devs leveraging their position over independent instances (outside of maybe blocking users from .ml or defederating or using their general influence to pressure people, and can’t they do the same to piefed instances)?

As outlined in the body text, the core of my issue is the position it puts users like me in. Either we’re effectively freeloading with regards to Lemmy’s sustainment and development, even if we have the resources to contribute, or else we’re donating money to literal genocide deniers who use that money to cultivate an instance that suppresses acknowledgement of genocide and imperialism.