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.
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