• @btaf45OPEnglish
    10•1 month ago

    We need large “sibling” instances rather than monoliths like .world, which is to say nothing of the politics of the instance.

    Absolutely 1000%

    This also highlights the destructiveness of toxic moderation. There is plenty of it here too

    I can’t believe that lemmy mods/admins still think they have the luxury of making bone headed moves in a decentralized network. I am determined to get around this and it is the entire reason I am on a decentralized system. We vote with our feet and in the long term it will all work out. I am looking for suggestions for a politics group that is not lemmy.world and not lemmy.ml.

      • kfchan
        5•1 month ago

        I’m not a LW fan. In my opinion, they are doing any % speedrun on how to become as bad as Reddit and succeeding admirably.

        With that said, I don’t hate on LW users. Most of them are probably unaware of the moderator issues from their own instance and are just looking for content.

        • bacon_saber
          13•1 month ago

          I don’t think it was meant to be an insult to lemmy.world or its users. The post you’re replying to is just pointing out some contradiction between a user agreeing with the need to spread out on the fediverse, while doing so by posting from one of the most stacked instances.

      • @btaf45OPEnglish
        2•1 month ago

        Curious, coming from a LW account

        Why are you curious. On a decentralized platform, It matters where you post TO, not where you post FROM. Anybody can easily switch to posting from another platform.

        • Blaze (he/him)English
          3•1 month ago

          I see where you come from, but using one instance still makes it active, encouraging new joiners looking for an instance to join it too.

          LW got so popular because it had most of the users at some point, and that only went further over time.