Exploding Heads is moving to Nostr - Exploding Heads
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Two years ago when I launched Exploding-Heads, Lemmy offered a way to let me play a small role in fighting back against: - censorship - deplatforming - propaganda - Big Tech tyranny, and - to help spread suppressed stories. I knew Lemmy had its challenges, but I hoped it would evolve for the better. Sadly after 2 years, the culture of censorship through defederation has only grown stronger. Meanwhile a better alternative has sprung up in the form of Nostr: - it lets you own your own profile - if you move to another Nostr app or site, you still keep your content and followers - it makes censorship very difficult - it is not perfect, but is evolving for the better very quickly. As a user you should not be at the mercy of instance operators who are - petty tyrants, or - benevolent dictators (who may turn tyrannical at any moment) I do not feel I can alter the tyrannical direction Lemmy is heading in and I want to dedicate my time and resources to a better alternative. So Exploding Heads is moving to Nostr. Exploding-Heads.com [http://Exploding-Heads.com] will go offline August 31st 2023. Please join us on Nostr. Exploding Heads address on Nostr is npub1qprptnnuwnqc6h6wxc2q07rfwcmj7cfc6g4r5dgnlkxaysmpr0mqc5365p Sounds complicated, but it is pretty easy. Here is what I recommend to get started Amethyst App - Lets you follow people - Lets you follow #hastags (I have been using communities as a substitute for #hashtags on Lemmy - Has evolving support for communities Habla.news - a Nostr alternative for Medium for long form content If you have any questions about getting up and running on Nostr, please ask them here https://exploding-heads.com/c/nostrblog [https://exploding-heads.com/c/nostrblog] In closing, I sincerely apologize to all of you who are going to lose their profiles and content (please get anything you want off by August 31st), but it proves my warning about the problem with relying on benevolent dictators. Please make sure to say hi to us on Nostr. I hope the majority of our wonderful Exploding Heads community will make the move to Nostr with us.

And nothing of value was lost!

    • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      441·
      11 months ago

      This is exactly the reason why I myself am suspicious of anyone who tries to start shit when some instance defederates (or even implies they’re thinking about defederating) from another.

      Now, can “bad” defederations happen? Maybe. But the thing to realize is that each instance is it’s own community, and they all differ on what they accept and what they refuse. Some will be stricter, and some will do the bare minimum to not end up being Voat 2. And that’s why federation works, because you have the choice to pick where you stand in that spectrum.

      The trolls need people to troll in order to not implode, and they will pull every trick in the book in an attempt to keep as wide a reach as possible. That’s why anything without moderation capabilities of sort (and isn’t, like, DMs or otherwise small groups only) do not work in the long term.

      Good fucking riddance. Happy fizzling out in no-user-str.