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Hello to all of our new users. I wish we could all meet in better circumstances. The closing of lemm.ee [http://lemm.ee] is a real blow to the fediverse, and I have nothing but the greatest respect for the lemm.ee [http://lemm.ee] admin team. Lemm.ee [http://Lemm.ee] was a cornerstone of the lemmy community, and set a high bar for moderation and technical performance. Finding a home on the fediverse can be tough. Whether you’re here to lurk, post, moderate, or contribute in your own way, we’re glad you’ve joined us. Lemmy.zip might not replace what was lost, but we hope it can become a lemmy instance where you can feel at home. — Everyone should receive a welcome PM when they sign up to Lemmy.zip from the ever-present dark lord overseer friendly bot, ZippyBot. However, in case poor Zippy has been overworked and forgotten to send the PM to you, here’s some helpful information regarding Lemmy.zip! - All of our policies can be found at legal.lemmy.zip [https://legal.lemmy.zip/]. This includes our Code of Conduct. Please (please!) have a read of this. Our number 1 rule is Remember the human! (no harassment, threats, etc.). We absolutely adhere to this. Treat people with respect. - When you created your account, we set up some “Default Blocks”. If you want a more unfiltered Lemmy experience, you can head to your account settings [https://lemmy.zip/settings] and remove the blocks. You can read more about this in our Welcome Post [https://lemmy.zip/post/43] - they are currently hexbear and lemmgrad. - We have monthly updates! You can read the latest one here! [https://lemmy.zip/post/39959863]. We’re always open to suggestions if there’s anything else you’d like to see in these. - We have some metrics around federation for the curious among you. The link is in the sidebar or you can click here! [https://grafana.lemmy.zip/public-dashboards/bac0acae9cd942f88a65b1a7c94503d2] - We have our status page at status.lemmy.zip [https://status.lemmy.zip/]. In the unlikely event the server becomes sentient and starts a robot uprising, full details will be available here. Finally, your admin team is myself (Demigodrick [/u/[email protected]]), Sami [/u/[email protected]], Druid [/u/[email protected]], and Gazby [/u/[email protected]]. Please reach out to any of us if you feel you need help or support with anything. We also have a support email - [email protected]. — If you have any questions, please let us know and we’ll do our best to answer them. Thanks, The Lemmy.zip Admin Team
  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The thing I liked the most about Lemm.ee was that there was a general policy against defederating. It let me drink directly from the whole lemmy firehose if I wanted. If I wanted to block individual communities or users, that was within my personal power and nobody decided to step in my way and decide for me.

    It looks like you’ve defederated from 4 instances so far, so… that’s pretty good. threads dot net by user vote, and three others for being virulent hives of pedo shit.

    … you know what. i think i might be cool with this. I’ll watch for a bit.

      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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        1 day ago

        I believe the issue was that the UK seemingly wants sites to block people under 18 from seeing porn by collecting IDs from everyone. Rather than police the ages of its users or remove all adult content from the instance the .zip admin decided to just block everyone from the UK to forestall any legal issues that might arise.

        https://lemmy.zip/post/31644782

        • Demigodrick@lemmy.zip
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          1 day ago

          Yeah spot on, it’s complicated by me being a UK resident and also the owner, and so the only way to protect the site without introducing age verification and AI monitoring (which are dystopian measures, not to mention incredibly expensive) without changing aspects of the site, is to just not provide a service to the UK users.

          If I wasn’t in the UK, I’d just ignore this act like every other admin and service does.