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.
Basically:
https://sh.itjust.works/c/meanwhileongrad
There’s a whole community of authoritarian-ish ‘tankies’ with quite a presence on Lemmy.ml: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
…Personally I wouldn’t want Lemmy.ml blocked. I like some folks/communities there. 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.
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.
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. Eventually that will create a critical mass that the corporate silos simply cannot compete with.
The slowness feels frustrating, though.
Honestly I like the slowness and the small size. Even on lemmy, posting in bigger communities just gets you attacked or argued with by bitter people and it’s just kinda sucks. I call it reddit dissease, but its pretty prominant in most other places too.
Small lemmy communities are a breath of fresh air because most people are there to commune rather than argue or judge. Prime example was Lemmy circa 2023
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.