Like most fermented foods, alcohol is absolutely an acquired taste and if you haven’t acquired it yet then I’d say you’re not missing out on much of anything. I’m still not at the point where IPAs and hard liquor taste like anything except poison to me.

Take my word for it Brits, don’t let this toxic tipping culture sneak in. Once it’s in place it will be impossible for it to go away.

Cloudflare is where they are hosting, correct?

Maybe I’m misunderstanding the issue here, but wouldn’t any Lemmy instance with any amount of scale necessarily be centralized to some degree? If not Cloudflare, than some other provider would be the point of contention.

I don’t want to let perfect be the enemy of good, so I’m willing to accept some negatives. I think the more important factor is if the instance aligns with my values and the administration team are reasonable, and so far both seem to be true for me.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I’ve been meaning to make a switch to a more niche instance for a while and I couldn’t be bothered to motivate myself to do it, so I guess this is as good of an excuse as any. Hello pawb.social.

To be honest, I find the instance tribalism to be a bit cringe and painting entire swathes of users with the same broad brush is just not something I’m interested in taking part in. That being said, I also don’t want to be associated with the armpits of the internet either, and when you start catching strays just because you have .world at the end of your username swapping to a more low-key instance is more an act of self-preservation than it is protesting anything about how lemmy.world was run for average users like myself (I posted lots of anti-Israel sentiments on /c/politics and never once got a ban or a warning for that specifically), but I see the benefit in diversifying the fediverse a little bit more.