Very sad about this.

  • enkers
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    23 hours ago

    While other people have answered your direct question, I think it’s important to think about it from a slightly more abstract POV as well.

    A lot of people left reddit because they were unhappy with being forced off of 3rd party apps. Lemmy provides a fundamentally different (from reddit) mechanism to protect against that sort of centralised overreach: federation. It’s also one of the unique qualities which differentiates us from reddit.

    If any instance becomes the de facto standard, as lemmy.world is dangerously close to being, it compromises the strength of having federated communities.

    It’s in all users best interest to avoid centralisation tendencies, and most people would be better suited spending a little time to consider which instance they are best aligned with, and moving to that instance instead of just staying with the most popular instance.

    • @Triasha
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      37 hours ago

      I signed up with Blahaj. Zone when I came with the reddit exodus, but some time later I couldn’t log in, couldn’t reset my password, and couldn’t make another because I already had an account.

      .world let me sign up. And hasn’t broken like blahaj. My heart is there, but I’m not willing to spend hours figuring how to make it work.