Comment on Community health check-in | November 2023
rglullis@communick.news 11 months agoA counterpoint would be: now that alien.top is not mirroring content anymore, LW now has no actual reason to keep it defederated, and the more “organic” users there, the more legitimate it becomes.
I was saying from the beginning that the accounts would eventually be taken over by their owners, now that this is starting to happen, do you think that is fair to penalize the instance because it was successful?
I think it’s hard to regain trust, but it’s possible. I think your intentions are good and communication is the best way to improve on an unfortunate situation.
That said, it’s a very poor introduction to a new environment to be unknowingly thrown into a conflict on the side with little leverage and no understanding why the experience is so inconsistent with likely expectations, which is that one would be able to interact with the posts and comments they see.
unknowingly thrown into a conflict on the side with little leverage
It will be hilarious if the LW mods start to believe that they have any “leverage” because they have 12k MAU and that they can start to arbitrarily federate or block instances. Hilarious, I say…
It seems like you’re taking this statement very personally. It was meant to describe the circumstances from a detached perspective (mine). The value of an account on alien.top is much more heavily influenced by lemmy.world than the other way around currently.
You really should try to talk to them, it would help both instances and the experience of users on lemmy instances in general if you could bridge the rift that currently exists.
antik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nothing is happening on that instance. Set if to ‘local’ and ‘comments’ and there is a handful of comments from the last hour and before that it was 13 days ago
‘successful’