Back catalogue: counter.social, pridelands.io

Migrated more existing instances to this new list.

list/instances/counter_social/counter_social.md

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+# counter.social
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+***last updated 2018.06.13***
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+![](1.jpg)
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+The main premise of counter.social is a jingoist statement in response to investigations related to social media advertising being used by foreign states to attempt to influence the 2016 US General Election. 
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+This instance blocks entire countries' populations (ie. Russia, Iran, China, Ukraine etc.) based solely on their governments' (or part of their government, as is the case with Ukraine) relationships with the United States government. They block VPN exits too out of fear that those governments may use them for social media campaigns.
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+The basis for this instance is very generalising and applies an ugly (and ironically divisionary) worldview. It completely ignores the fact that people in a country can often have differing political opinions to that of the ruling political party, the idea of political dissidents and the idea that anyone can basically... influence anyone, like friends, neighbours, corporations, social media networks, political parties in your country, and basically anyone with the same passport (or not) as you.
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+This also doesn't tackle the supposed problem like they think it does at all (a government can just set up base in another country or pay people in other countries to do the work for them), and it hurts people in the west (like myself) who use VPNs to evade government and corporate surveillance in their own countries, which they seem to be just fine with.
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+All-round, it should be a joke because of how poorly thought out it is, but it isn't, and it's pretty shitty to begin with.
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+![](2.png)
+(https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/865263475819507712)
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+It also turns out that the admin has some anti-trans sentiment and insists on misgendering trans people (one example (screencapped above) I have been told by multiple sources there are other examples).
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list/instances/pridelands_io/pridelands_io.md

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+# pridelands.io
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+***last updated 2018.06.13***
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+![](1.png)
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+(https://pridelands.io/about/more)
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+I'm sure this kind of rhetoric is familiar to many people.
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+Other than the above instance description, this instance's admin was found engaging negatively in a conversation by making a lot of bad-faith assertions about religion and also making some insults. Really weird. ([Some of the thread can be found here](https://pridelands.io/@simba/99679140751322663), the rest of this was submitted to me by someone.)
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list/list.md

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 * [**social.guizzyordi.info**](instances/social_guizzyordi_info/social_guizzyordi_info.md)
 * [**social.lucci.xyz**](instances/social_lucci_xyz/social_lucci_xyz.md)
 * [**pleroma.rareome.ga**](instances/pleroma_rareome_ga/pleroma_rareome_ga.md)
+* [**pridelands.io**](instances/pridelands_io/pridelands_io.md)
 
 
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@@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ Conspiracy theories can be a complicated subject, and certain kinds are pretty h
 
 Instances that aren't overtly safe spaces for violent speech, but they do say that they want to moderate as little as possible, often with the only thing they're really willing to moderate is what's illegal for them (and also normally harrassment).
 
-The problem with that is that leaves out fascism, sexism, racism, homophobia, and other forms of bigotry. So while they aren't necessarily engaging in it themselves, they are enabling it by letting other people do it on their servers.
+The problem with that is that leaves out fascism, sexism, racism, homophobia, and other forms of bigotry. So while they aren't necessarily engaging in it themselves, they are enabling it by letting other people do it on their servers. This means that by federating with them, you're putting you and your users at risk too.
 
 
 
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 This is a miscellaneous group, and each instance is here for their own very specific reasons. I recommend you check out each instance's file.
 
-- **pridelands.io**
-- **counter.social**
+- [**pridelands.io**](instances/pridelands_io/pridelands_io.md)
+- [**counter.social**](instances/counter_social/counter_social.md)
 
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