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I did it because it is cheaper, lets me learn a bit about self hosting and causes me to have less captchas and less websites blocking me, and its also more resistant to any potential VPN bans (my country’s already made social media have age verification, I’m sure they’ll come for vpns eventually). You’re right that I don’t have the benefit of blending in but there’s still a lot of other ways you can be fingerprinted so that really isn’t a huge benefit.

Definitely Codeberg if you don’t want to self host anything

Mine’s on 24/7, I feel like it’s better to use than not use it. I self host one on a vps over using s commercial one

How about the people that voted for people that weren’t Trump?

Yes, Lemming is the term. Now the next question is what to call us piefed users and mbin users

It’s nice for you that the instances being blocked just so happen to be ones you don’t like, but did you not consider that there’s probably alot of people who don’t have issues with those instances and don’t find them toxic. Your personal blocklist is there so you can curate your own feed, and that is not what the instance blocklist is for and they aren’t and shouldn’t be treated like the same thing. Tldr, just block an instance in your personal blocklist and move on, no need to make it everyone else’s problem.