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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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[–] graphito@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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?

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago

Lemmygrad is far left, communist instance, expressing pro US, against Russia and pro Ukraine position will swiftly get you banned

Post proof. Here's our modlog: https://lemmygrad.ml/modlog

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] graphito@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.