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Competition, reputation and federation. In essence, retention.
There's a ton of social news aggregators out there and most of them are much better at advertising their site than the entire lemmyverse together.
Lemmy has a reputation among many as a far left, for some - extremist platform. A large mastodon user that boosts accounts actively warned about Lemmy in a pretty bad way a while back. The other day a public representative for a company withdrew their community the same day they created it due to the public backlash.
It's difficult to grasp how federation, and particularly lemmy federation works for people unfamiliar with the concept. They might get a wrong impression of the lemmyverse after visiting just one instance, not realizing it's only a part of it. Or they could be stuck on an instance with few posts that interests them.
This was probably Bitwarden on the Sopuli instance right? Could you perhaps share a link discussing this in detail?
https://sopuli.xyz/post/256669
What the heck? It's free software and a specific detail about free software is that it may be used for any purpose regardless of the authors ideas. That's some serious fucked up witch hunt.
To be honest, I haven't seen the developers put any demands or anything on what people use it for. Just look at Wolfballs and how it's on https://join-lemmy.org/instances despite their home server blocking them. I think that's very respectable.
I don't think so. It's just that a bad reputation lasts a long time, and the lemmy platform have had some rowdy representation for a while. Again, the developers have taken sensible steps when they started promoting Sopuli and Beehaw on the join-lemmy page, two seemingly wholesome instances that welcomes anyone.
@Catradora_Stalinism@lemmy.ml Sorry, can't reply directly. Check out these two links:
https://lemmy.ml/post/78808
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
Its all right! Thank you for getting this for me!
god some of them read like bots on that mastodon thread.
I remember that post and ooof the cringe was hardcore. I don't understand how people belived that shit.
what happened to them? I never heard about this.
Such a shame...
I was even excited to see them join a community as small as ours.
I know, it really saddened me. We need to discuss these things, work together to change the federated culture and become attractive to new users. But it feels like everywhere I look, people either want to compete directly or they can't see the big picture.
wait What happened?
If youre looking for a more general purpose instance, try out beehaw.org
About a week ago Bitwarden created an official community on the instance sopuli. But now it seems the community has been removed by Bitwarden due to public backlash.
Why
Wait, so lemmy is far left? Please tell me it's not
Lemmy is a software our instances are running on. Here are some instances:
Lemmygrad is far left, communist instance, expressing pro US, against Russia and pro Ukraine position will swiftly get you banned
Lenny.ml (where you are registered) is under strong influence of lemmygrad. Happens mostly with a little help of an admin who supports lemmygrad. Although it has fair share of non communists who are slowly realising my previous sentence.
Wolfballs is right wing instance.
Almost any other instance is much less directed towards politics, but ideologically either centrist, leftist or apolitical at all.
Hello, lemmy.ml is explicitly leftist on it's own terms.
Is your inaccuracy intentional?
Is your insistence on spreading anti-communism outside of your instance not at odds with your own rules on polite interaction?
Building an instance solely on being pissed at another instance for existing. They need to have us in their blocklist because they could not handle the backlash if they federated. That's all there is to it.
lmao yeah communists correcting the history of their movement is the exact same as a "free speech" instance that has to be trans-exclusionary to function right in their sidebar. Fuck off.
Post proof. Here's our modlog: https://lemmygrad.ml/modlog
What makes you suggest that an admin is the cause of the cross-influence? They're, by far, the two biggest federated instances, and both explicitly "leftist" (which, in their context, means socialist). Of course there will be many users coming across and influencing the posts.
Clearly pointing to this information will get me banned as it was the last time. So I'll just invite you to take note of this possibility and keep your eyes open.
Thank you for the correction, I respect that
Lmao you stand for nothing.
It is, most innovation is made by people who want progression in the world.