For all your boycotting needs. I’m sure there’s some mods caught in lemmy.ml’s top 10 that are perfectly upstanding and reasonable people, my condolences for the cross-fire.

  1. [email protected] and [email protected]. Or of course communities that rule.
  2. [email protected]
  3. [email protected]. Quite small, plenty of more specific ones available. Also linux is inescapable on lemmy anyway :)
  4. [email protected]
  5. [email protected]
  6. [email protected] and maybe [email protected], lemmy.one itself seems to be up in the air. [email protected] says [email protected]. They really seem to be hiding even from another, those tinfoil hats :)
  7. [email protected]
  8. Seems like [email protected] and [email protected], various smaller comic-specifc communities as well as [email protected]
  9. [email protected]
  10. [email protected]

(Out of the loop? Here’s a thread on lemmy.ml mods and their questionable behaviour)

      • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        Clearly the American point of view is neutral, the default, and the truth, so it doesn’t count as propaganda.

          • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            I had to do a double take because this sentiment is prevalent throughout lemmy.world and other instances.

        • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
          0·
          4 months ago

          It’s not even about which view is right or neutral. On .world posts and comments critical of the US aren’t mass censored like .ml does with posts critical of China, Russia or the former USSR.

          • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            4 months ago

            That’s true to some extent. I don’t agree with hard censorship like that, but there is also the risk of getting astroturfed and brigaded like reddit, which had a clear example as far back as 2013 where Eglin Air Force Base, FL showed up as “most addicted city”. The goal of censorship is to give your own opinions more space, so I’m not exactly upset if other instances are moderated in a different way when there are plenty of other instances moderated in a different way. The fediverse offers plenty of space.

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Please dont use lemmy.world alternatives. World is a much bigger problem in terms of centralization.

    • archchan@lemmy.mlEnglish
      01·
      5 months ago

      I don’t care how big .world gets because it’s the same thing with mastodon.social or pixelfed.social. Coming from primarily centralized services, people will always be looking for a “main” instance because that’s what their brains are used to and that’s what will help adoption. The ones who care will use another instance. As long as fedi has the users and not the proprietary alternatives, it’s fine. We can manage.

      • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        You’re partially right, but it would be better if users were evenly spread on many instances.

        Imagine if one instance becomes so big and then they de-federate. For normal users, nothing would change, but then we would have created the new R*ddit

  • corymbia@reddthat.comEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    “Asklemmy.ml” just asked about if anyone had been at any important event televised events.

    Mmmm. Guess what.

    I mentioned Tiananmen Square 1989: INSTA-BAN!!!

    It would be funny if it wasn’t such a horrible thing.

  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    OpenMW’s official Lemmy community has been on lemmy.ml since 2021, way before lemmy.world existed (and most other instances, too), and way before there was any inter-instance drama. It’s becoming increasingly likely that it’s not going to be a suitable long-term home, but we’d be much happier if we could migrate the existing community rather than start from scratch with a new one. Is there any way to do that yet?

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      IMO organizations should self-host their official communities. If you’re going to move, it ought to be to something like [email protected].

      In addition to the obvious benefits of having admin control/being able to avoid moderation drama imposed by others, it also means you could have more than one community: maybe !openmw for general discussion, plus !modding, !development, etc.

    • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
      0·
      5 months ago

      I had a look at your community, do you want to save post and comments?

      If not, the easiest way is to announce on the current community where you are going to move, then lock it, so that people indeed move to the new one.

      I did it from [email protected] to [email protected], it worked quite well.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    We getting one of these a day now?

    If you don’t like it, petition your admins (via posts on your own instance) to defed.

    If they don’t want to, find a new instance that does, or stay and block their instance so you don’t see their subs.

    If you want to build up alternatives, post and comment so they’re more active.

    I just don’t see the point of these posts when most Lemmy users have been around for a while and know what lemmy.ml is like by now.

    Be the change you want to see, post in those communities yourself instead of these daily announcements threads on an instance that’s already defederating apparently

    • barsoap@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Lemm.ee will not defederate over tankie mods, there’s a specific policy. As to the change I want to see: Guess what I did just before I posted the list, go through all my subscription and clean it of lemmy.ml.

      I very much doubt there’s going to be one a day, these kinds of things tend to ebb and flow. Also it would’ve been much faster to ignore this thread than to reply.

    • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      I think it’s good to have regular outreach. I just subscribed to the linux community from this one.

      The other post also has me considering moving my account to a different instance. There were some compelling arguments against centralizing on lemmy.world. (I don’t strongly disagree with the moderation here but I do somewhat disagree with centralizing admin power like on reddit.)

      I wouldn’t mind seeing these regularly. But maybe it would be nice to have someone make specific accounts for that purpose so you can easily block them out of your feed.

    • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      You can migrate your subscriptions in the settings (import / export as a JSON file, easier to do on a computer).

      You would lose your comments and posts history, but you can refer to the old account on your new account so that people curious would know it’s you. Also, if you keep the same name and avatar, most of the people wouldn’t notice.

      • shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lolEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        Criticizing China on lemmy.ml goes about as well as evangelizing crypto on awful.systems. Join an instance that shares your values or roll your own. Know your audience or get the hammer.

        It’s like a huge chunk of the population out here has never experienced a forum before.

        • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          It is far more than just that. Removing comments is one thing, mass-banning from many communities at once despite never even having commented in them at all is another, but the real issue is using database manipulation to delete the log entries as to why the comments were removed after the fact.

          Even if unintentional, which strains credulity, this is some spez-level stuff going on, edit: where we have the option to either take what a single person (who does not seem inclined to follow their own stated rules) offers, or else we can leave. Many are choosing the latter, and like the Rexodus, making the situation known to others as well in the process.

          “Criticizing China” was merely the spark that lit the match, with the situation offering proof of what apparently people have been suspecting for some time now.

  • PolydoreSmith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    So, I’ve been on lemmy.world since I joined last year and everyone’s saying it’s too big. Lemmy.ml is the next-largest so I’m conflicted. What do?

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Join literally any other server.

      That’s the point of distributed networks they’re supposed to be distributed if 80% of the content is on two servers that’s not distributed. People should move off ml and world regardless of their politics simply because it’s not a good idea to have everything all in one place.