The easiest way to explain it is that the instances have no native ability to crawl other instances for communities or content. For all intents and purposes, a fresh Lemmy server is on an island and all other instances are their own island until someone builds a bridge to them.
The ability of an instance to receive content is dependent on the subscriptions users add to the database. Once the instance is aware of these other places it will begin checking them for updates and you'll see them regularly whether you interact with them or not.
This goes completely against what the average person is expecting and causes a lot of confusion.
Can you point us to some disagreements the people in your instance have had with moderators? Do you have any specific links for us to view? If censorship is happening I'd like to know more about it.
No because there aren't any. There are very few active users on WG and I have no desire for it to ever become very big. I originally created it for myself to experiment with and I don't really promote or advertise the instance itself even though people are welcome to join.
The people who have joined tend to share common interests so things have mostly remained the same as when it was just me. The "walled" part of WG is more or less the application process itself, since it removes easy access for troll and bot accounts.
I'm an instance owner (it's very small) and the only thing I don't tolerate is hate messages and subversive spam ("www,BuyGoldHere123,Spam,me"). I haven't yet needed to delete anything my users created.
I've seen some of these spam posts in our communities before but always from outside instances. They are very easy to keep under control and I wouldn't consider that censorship, just garbage removal.
Crazy that we just came from a season that saw no changes over the winter, then a flurry of crazy situations through the season leads to all but 2 teams changing their lineup this winter.
To a certain degree I think when he backed Lewis into Max in 2021 he had a bit of leverage over them and that never transitioned into consistent individual performances.
Not shit stirring the 2021 championship drama, only citing what I feel was a big event in Checo's career path.
It's not exactly smiled on when drivers or teams intentionally manipulate a race. Just for comparison people hate on KMag for defending and stalling cars behind him when his teammate is fighting for a single point. Checo did something that played a major role in a controversial championship decider.
Checo was used as a pawn (willingly or not I can't say) in Red Bull's quest to deliver Max a WDC. I think a lot of his time at Red Bull was an attempted payback for that with hopes that he would perform more consistently with time. I don't think other drivers would've been given so many opportunities for so long with such an obvious gap to the other car. If we think back to Valtteri's time at Mercedes the performance gap was never so severe as he consistently qualified well but then floundered in the race or was the victim of the "second car" strategy. There were A LOT of Mercedes 1-2 finishes, and we never saw that consistently with Red Bull and Checo. Under any other circumstances I think he loses this drive much earlier than he did.
FWIW none of this is meant to hate on Checo. I've enjoyed watching his career until the recent slump and finger pointing when his driving hasn't been where it needed to be. I hope he's able to find success wherever he lands in the future.
Obviously I have no way of knowing every trigger for that message but VPN usage can trigger it for sure so I figured I'd bring it up since I didn't see it mentioned.
Anyone who thinks they stand a chance against drones with a gun hasn't been paying attention to what's happening in Ukraine.
Gonna pew pew a CEO in the back? Sure, guns work for that.
Trying to save your own life against a fast and agile target that needs way less precision than you to be effective and probably never even presents a target? Nah mate, you're fucked.
Lemmyverse will let you search every community hosted by Lemmy instances that share data with it, which is most. If you set your home instance before you start clicking links they'll open on your home instance so they are easier to subscribe to.
Here's a recent post I put together with some more resources:
Correct.