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I already made a massive !forumverse@piefed.social for this. You will have to be on a piefed instance to access it.

Piefed has hashtags, which is close to what OP wants.

Yeah, but one usually dominates because it often has the most intuitive url. And also Reddit has a much larger audience, so many very similar communities can exist for one topic.

This aren’t even the OPs original thoughts, they have either looked up other grievances or just copy and pasted this from some other old post. Most of the comments are old news too.

They don’t really seem interested in discussing this

Sorry, but no private profiles please. This isn’t Facebook. Its a public forum. Allowing users to hide their history just encourages trolling, astroturfing and erodes the high trust culture of the fediverse.

This is also why I suppose public voting, and public modlogs.

Reddit is notably degraded due to them allowing users to hide their post history now.

Duplicate communities existing is both good and bad. It means that badly run communities can be redesigned and overtaken on other instances if enough users are angry with how its run. Although, yes, duplication is an issue. Piefed feeds and crossposting mitigates this somewhat.

The search on fediverse isn’t perfect, but its far better than Reddits useless search tools. I will hear no lectures here.

I usually use subscribed and local, but I have notifications enabled for a bunch of feeds so I get new threads from those communities.

Note: I am on Piefed which has more options here.

I.m.o., instances should never be allowed to ban anyone sitewide, even temporarily(, except for spamming/bot accounts), or only a minority of them, explicitly stating that they want to represent a group of users, and reserving themselves the right to say that a given user makes them a bad publicity.

And how would you ensure this type of policy is enforced, exactly? Lemmy is open-source software that can be modified by instance owners. Lemmy isn’t even the only Reddit-like software in the Fediverse.

Communities should also never be allowed to permaban, and a one-year ban should be the maximum, but only after, e.g., at least 3 one-month bans, themselves preceded with a demand to simply edit the comment/post.

See above.

Yeah, people tend to consider CSAM “problematic” and look down on the idea that it should be permitted.

And can you show me where someone accused you of being a pedophile?

Is this “Oh, we can’t have a CSAM themed instance :(((((” how bad how ebil the authorities much sad

There’s only the themes accepted by the authorities, due to broken federation.

What themes are “rejected” by the “authorities” that they cannot choose for their instance?

I don’t report much, but that guy was (is) something else dude. I’m not a free speech absolutist.

Here is where you denied that instances can have their own themes.

He kept hurling abuse.

Not the first time I’ve dealt with someone like you, obviously.

And what did other people “like me” that you’ve dealt with do to harass you, exactly?

You seem to be blaming me for “wasting your time” when it’s your unwillingness to stop replying to me.

And the type of targeting that makes it so I can’t safely have a home server is more like how I keep facing serious accusations of crimes I haven’t committed, false arrests, accusations of pedophilia, etc.

You have not been accused of being a pedophile. You have been “accused” of saying that CSAM should be allowed to be hosted online (because you said it).

Provide evidence that ICANN and/or the President meddle and intervene in the management and running of the Fediverse.

Incorrect. I keep saying that when you waste time typing random shit. You’ve wasted like 12 hours today.

Imagine having no self-control that I’m to blame for your inability to stop replying.

POTUS, ICANN, etc.

They have zero involvement in the Fediverse.

Right. I’m also prepared for the possibility you will start harassing me in the very near future. Why do you need me to explain your own behavior to you?

How would I do that? Why would you assume I would do that? All I’ve done is reply to you in a thread.

Incorrect. Repeating yourself doesn’t make it true. Try deleting or editing comments, if that will be enough to hide them from mods/admins. Or just keep lying if this place is actually corrupt enough for that to yield worthwhile results on its own.

It wouldn’t be enough to hide them because instance admins can see deleted posts. But in any case, I haven’t insulted you. You have insulted me repeatedly.