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Why aren't there that many people using Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by TimothyMcFuck@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I got banned from reddit (honestly feel a lot better without it)

But I miss being able to answer stupid questions and relationship questions.

Lemmy is great, but why aren't there that many people on here? I don't get it.

An I using my filters wrong or something?

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[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

we had to remove the Bitwarden instance for the time being, to review the flood of responses coming in to us from the community regarding information about the purpose behind Lemmy via the creators

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.

[–] coldhotman@nrsk.no 9 points 2 years ago

it may be used for any purpose regardless of the authors ideas.

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.

That’s some serious fucked up witch hunt.

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.

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@Catradora_Stalinism@lemmy.ml Sorry, can't reply directly. Check out these two links:

https://lemmy.ml/post/78808

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Its all right! Thank you for getting this for me!

god some of them read like bots on that mastodon thread.

[–] SrEstegosaurio@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://lemmy.ml/post/78808

I remember that post and ooof the cringe was hardcore. I don't understand how people belived that shit.

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

what happened to them? I never heard about this.