jumping into the github issues or matrix channels mainly, or donating your time or money to LW

lemmon.zerobytes.monster/index

it’s not just you, the stats bear it out. LW has the worst uptime of any major instance. 92% so far this month according to their own monitoring and worse on bad days. They see a lot of load and have not scaled up enough to resolve it, nor have they restricted user signups at all to spread out new users across the lemmyverse. Seems like a very growth oriented mindset, which I don’t love to see spreading to the fediverse.

Physically smaller cars will not make a meaningful dent in traffic, as they still need following distance, still mostly only carry 1 person, and can only shrink so much before you run into limits of human anatomy. They barely even save parking space. They could reverse some of the worst excesses of traffic deaths maybe because you can actually see over the hood and such though.

Public transit, concepts like 15 minute cities, and more biking/micromobility/walking friendly infrastructure are what will actually work. If government won’t do it then they’ve got to go.

what’s the line between brigading and just getting into political arguments though? cause hexbear is plenty good at the latter, they used to fight among themselves a lot, but doesn’t really have a huge history of the former, they mostly keep to themselves since the reddit ban. Most I’ve seen is a handful of accounts posting in the defed announcement thread here, which like, fair enough, it was clearly a politically motivated decision. It’s hard to believe they’d be any worse than lemmygrad for example, if anything they fit the culture of the wider lemmyverse a lot better (not to say lemmygrad should be defed’ed either by a general purpose instance such as this, but there is more culture shock there than hexbear)

then go to an instance that doesn’t have downvotes… Admittedly those instances are also almost exclusively liberal or leftist tho lol

Oh I’m not saying the overall opinions there are ironic and will stay that way, they are very much communists (and a notable minority of anarchists), and that isn’t likely to change, just that there’s also a lot of shitposting, and the general jokey tone seems to be what convinced admins not to take the “hey guys you have to follow the rules of federated instances when you post there” seriously

Wasn’t trying to stir shit, its just interesting (though entirely understandable) how that site gets left out of these kinds of posts. It has a lot of inertia to still have 1500 monthly active users, and a huge amount of content, after >3 years of being split off from reddit and receiving little outside attention

it does basically boil down to what other people have said but I’ll elaborate.

Political disagreements from the admins of lemmy.world, and them taking the site’s zealous left-wing opinions and shitposting culture as prima-facie evidence that hexbear users can’t be trusted not to break lemmy.world rules (unstated which rules) by pushing “their beliefs and ideology”. It almost sounds good until you think about it like, at all. It’s an explicitly political instance (though honestly >50% of the posting is just news of the day and banter), so of course the users will by and large have those political opinions and post them. As long as they do so within the rules of lemmy.world I don’t see the issue personally.

It’s fairly big relative to other lemmy instances because it’s been around for over 3 years, and it was a lifeboat site for people that frequented r/chapotraphouse before it was banned from reddit (which was a relatively huge sub).

Over the past year or so they worked to switch from a heavily modified fork of lemmy back to a more modern upstream version of lemmy, mostly by redeveloping and contributing features that were missing, like custom emojis, to upstream lemmy. So now there’s more attention being paid since it is now using a federation-compatible version of lemmy and intends to actually federate with a limited subset of the lemmyverse

an import from reddit perhaps? probably someone migrating an entire sub so it’s browsable from lemmy