The community was active, by the look of it, before the mods shut it down for… idk why.
I’d be happy to start one elsewhere if the federated content actually showed up well between instances. It seems pretty spotty in my experience though, so I’d rather run the instance on one of the larger instances, even understanding your point about centralization. I am more of a Pixelfed user generally though, so maybe the federated content sharing works better here?
I’m pretty sure I can avoid the subreddits being censored by maintaining good moderation, particularly being strict on sourcing and placing a strong emphasis on harm reduction. Unless the admins of this website are simply opposed to the subject being discussed in general, which
- I doubt is an opinion they hold, seeing as it was the mod of !drugs which shut it down, not the admins of lemmy.world.
- Would be pretty lame when people are being killed by the fascists in office under the guise of drug-war stigma and rhetoric.
I did start [email protected] though because I can’t even tell what’s happening with [email protected] , it’s like it got ultra-banned or something lol. And thanks for the recommendations on some other communities!
And (in the experience of hypothetical pirate goblins I’ve hypothetically spoken to) won’t result in your ISP shutting your internet off until you agree to be nice and never do that again.