Submitted 4 months ago by jaz@infosec.pub to infosecpub@infosec.pub
I’m new to the Lemmiverse so I’m just starting to learn the history among instances, but I don’t understand blocking Lemmy.ml as it’s the developer’s instance, which also hosts several other significant communities. Just curious why that instance is blocked because I didn’t find anything by searching. Thanks.
They’re either really stupid bootlickers or a literal troll farm operation.
There are lots of them, it’s a little of column A and a little of column B
Pick a random community on there and look at their modlog…
Excuses will be thrown around but in reality its little more than fediverse drama. The same mods that scream about ml censorship will ban you if you critique neoliberalism.
The same mods that scream about ml censorship will ban you if you critique neoliberalism.
I’m a mod who whines constantly about ml censorship. Can you point to a single time when I have ever banned anybody for critiquing neoliberalism?
This weird strawman where .ml pretends that everyone else on Lemmy is just a mirror image of them but tryannically enforcing neoliberalism instead of Stalinism is so fucking bizarre. Nobody here likes either of those things, it is on par with “the libs will have your kids peeing in litter boxes” MAGA fantasy.
I have literally had comments deleted and banned on several .world comms for critiquing the Democrats, also I wasnt specifically talking about you nor do I belive I mentioned you.
Authoritarians love to project their behavior on everyone else to excuse their own abuses.
This is just nonsense. Lemmy.ml is an admin-enforced echo chamber. The only other server that behaves like they do is hexbear.
Saying things that are not true, and swearing to them and getting super-passionate about it and all assuring each other that that’s how it happened, is like the bread and butter of some communities. Some people respond a lot more positively to simple confidence than they do to calm evidence and argument.
Ive watched during the 2024 election when saying Kamala was anything less than perfect would get you banned, any critique was simply not allowed, and any negative information about her campaign was treated as sabotage. Im not gonna just forget about that, freedom was traded on the chance that a couple of people might be swayed.
I started in the Fediverse in Lemmy.ml and hooooooo boy did the move to Beehaw do my mental health so much good
Yep. Or really any ideology, take your pick.
Basically:
sh.itjust.works/c/meanwhileongrad
There’s a whole community of authoritarian-ish ‘tankies’ with quite a presence on Lemmy.ml.
…Personally I wouldn’t want Lemmy.ml blocked. Lemmy.world doesn’t block it. But I can see why instances would.
Thanks! I knew about Lemmygrad and a tiny bit about a Lemmy dev, but didn’t know Lemmy.ml’s community had a bad rep too. Guess I’ll have to use another account elsewhere. I’ve been trying to group interests to specific accounts on different servers, but it’s been difficult and sometimes impossible to do because of the complicated and blocked lines of federation. It’s not quite universally interlinked, especially when the comparison to email is made.
I’m a rather determined believer and adopter of Lemmy, but I wonder what the future of Lemmy growth will be like among average folks. I hope continued development of the Fediverse pulls users away from corporate platforms, but there’s still a lot of work to do to smooth out the wrinkles.
I wonder what the future of Lemmy growth will be like among average folks.
I feel like average folks greatly dislike managing multiple accounts, despite there being many tools out there to mitigate that. The average person just doesn’t explore across the Internet like we do, so our crowd will always be more technical.
I’ve been trying to group interests to specific accounts on different servers.
Just look at the defederated instances for each server! Including piefed ones. One reason I haven’t switched from .world (even though I’m ideologically closer to like db0), is that it doesn’t defederate from much, and I like the access.
I’m a rather determined believer and adopter of Lemmy, but I wonder what the future of Lemmy growth will be like among average folks. I hope continued development of the Fediverse pulls users away from corporate platforms, but there’s still a lot of work to do to smooth out the wrinkles.
It’s fine. Mods will power trip, the old internet functioned fine like that.
But the Fediverse’s goal is ‘slow and steady,’ not hyper-growth like a corporate startup. And I think thats good: we’ll go through a few more enshittification cycles as the Fediverse takes its time to carefully develop…
Also, the cooperative aspect is huge. Different projects add to each other, instead of compete like they do in any other ecosystem. Look at piefed: its basically built as a fork to spite Lemmy’s tankie devs, yet its fully cooperative with it.
The slowness feels frustrating, though.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Because it’s a dumpster fire.