Not a fan of it by any means, but it shit down ~11 days ago and no one mentioned it.
Every link to something on the instance redirects to this: https://imgur.com/XpxDJTg
Since lemmy posts are links, every image post is now that image.
The admin (local account on lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/u/hamid@vegantheoryclub.org ) said it was because of the harassment culture on lemmy (https://lemm.ee/post/64686772 ), and blamed sunshine and beaver for doing something? (https://lemm.ee/post/63664605/20610349 – the post this is in reply to is gone, but the comment is in the local copy of the person’s profile.)
Anyone know what happened?
Got shut down after this post on MOG was made:
Which he (Hamid) responded to with this:
This was the last comment he made:
tl;dr: he was sick of getting into lemmy drama
I don’t blame them, lemmy drama is shockingly toxic as hell. I don’t blame them removing the instance and retiring as admin.
Lemmy as a whole feels very toxic, i don’t blame him at all and wish him the best.
It can be tiring at times, but it’s unavoidable with a federated model.
Its unavoidable on centralised platforms too.
1 is fine. 2 is fine. That’s how things work. I have no idea, though, how someone who reacts with 3 expects to be able to manage ordinary day-to-day life. Let alone weigh in on a situation of death and destruction and geopolitical crime against humanity. Like, if this is your bar for what makes you quit, your movement is going to be pretty fucking easy for the establishment to destroy.
I’m not saying that everyone needs to toughen up and put up with whatever treatment they receive. I’m just saying that, in particular since it looks like the #2 response was actually quite a bit milder than the #1 inflammatory original post, the DARVO reaction featured in #3 seems kind of needlessly extra.
One fine example of such: