this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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So I know there's some drama with lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. I'm passingly familiar with the .ml stuff (that they have a large and vocal population of tankies and red-fash types), but what's the deal with lemmy.world?
It is in my opinion too big to join now as a new user, I think there are some issues with moderation also.
Fediverse needs to scale horizontally so it is bad idea to join the largest server.
Afaik they're basically banning whoever and whenever they please
That is probably true for all instances
In a sense, yes. But many people disagree specifically with what and why .world is banning.
LW's user base accounts for about 36.4% (as of writing this) of all Lemmy users (spread across approximately 570 instances according to FediDB), which is too large.
Iirc the biggest complaint has been that community mods inside .world had some affinities or apologia towards Israel's war crimes
Some people were worried they wouldn't allow users to advocate violence, which is bad. The rationale was that Dutch law supposedly prohibited it. Experiments were done and it was determined the admins allow advocating violence, which is good. But the site is full of power mods who remove calls for violence anyway, so it doesn't really matter what the admins allow.