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They went to nostr or other parts of the fediverse because the lemmyverse is toxic and they were constantly facing attacks of various types. Same thing that happened to wolfballs before it.
Some of the users might lurk on other servers, but I have my doubts. The point was to have a place they could be free to talk about things the establishment were censoring. Most of the colonizers from Reddit don't realize those servers existed long before most of what are considered the big Lemmy servers today even existed.
If the goal was just to troll redditors, there's always reddit.
Beind told you're wrong and to stop spreading harmful misinformation isn't censorship.
Being disagreed with isn't being attacked.
A privately owned and operated forum banning you and deleting your posts for breaking their rules isn't "the establishment" censoring you.
Censorship is the institution, system, or practice of censoring. To censor is to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable.
The Establishment is the part of a particular group that has power or control.
If the most powerful government on earth contacts the largest and most powerful companies on earth in order to categorically suppress or delete certain viewpoints or certain speakers, then by definition that is "'the establishment' censoring you". The fact that you agree with the censorship doesn't make it not censorship, and framing it in a moralistic way doesn't make it not censorship. Being moralistic didn't make it not censorship when the right was doing it.
Exploding-heads as I understand it was facing DDOS attacks near the end (or at least they thought it was), that's one of the things that prompted the admin to shut it down, it wasn't worth the effort to try to keep the site up and running under such an onslaught.
Anyway, I don't know why I'd even try. You know what? You win. Everything is fine and censorship doesn't exist and the only truth is that which the government and major corporations tell you, and the government and major corporations are actually the anti-establishment fighting against the big bad individuals who believe things they're not supposed to.
And yet it's the "liberals" who are the whiny snowflakes.๐