Why lemmy.ml?
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happybadger@hexbear.net 6 months ago
I finally offboarded r/modernart to lemmy.ml/c/modernism today in anticipation of the IPO launch. Already reddit heavily censors and recuperates anything radical. That’s only going to get much worse along with advertising and bots. I can’t see the website lasting in its current form and that’s already pathetic. Lemmy is poised to really take off as reddit ratfucks itself.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
themachine@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Totally ignorant question from me - why not?
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 6 months ago
They’re tankies. As in, supports the CCP kind of tankies.
Alto@kbin.social 6 months ago
More specifically, "Tiananmen Square didn't happen and if it did it's good" kind of tankies.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
They are pretty controversial for a lot of reasons, but I think the main thing in your case is that they are very heavy handed in their moderation, an odd place to go when trying to avoid censors
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Exactly the reason i switched from lemmy.ml to feddit.uk
Stache_@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Yeah when I first made my account back in June, i was under the impression that it didnt matter what community you made an account on. They all are linked together. Over time it seems like some groups dont like other groups and defederate from them. Lemmy.ml was one if the biggest groups at the time, so I joined it
TheVillageGuy@kbin.melroy.org 6 months ago
Create your own instance now you still can
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
lemmy.ml, one of the larger instances and the original? Seems good enough reason to me.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Ignoring lemmy.ml specific reasons, using a federated platform just to join the largest host is very very silly.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
I mean, sure. But I certainly wouldn’t be confused why someone did.
TheVillageGuy@kbin.melroy.org 6 months ago
@happybadger Create your own instance while you still can. If you're interested in hosting large images pick mbin instead of Lemmy and I can help you bypass filesize restrictions
laranis@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
“while you still can”
That is ominous. Creating my own instance has been a “someday” project for me. Is there something to be worried about?
TheVillageGuy@kbin.melroy.org 6 months ago
If you start your own instance, you're likely also going to want to be the homebase of your community. The longer you wait, the more users will then have to move to your community. That's not a deal breaker, of course.
TheVillageGuy@kbin.melroy.org 6 months ago
If you want to be your own community's host, you'll also want to start your own community on your instance. The longer you wait, the more users will have to move from the current to the new community. We started ours on an existing server (and it still exists) but we realized early that it would not give us enough control over the posted content (specifically filesize limitations) So we quickly started our own instance.
TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 6 months ago
!moderism@lemmy.ml for the lazy.