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I'm new and missed the lore (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by Vegeta@lemmy.ca to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 month ago (85 children)

As someone brand new to Lemmy I'm now learning a lot of horrible new info on myself based on arbitrarily signing up for a random instance.

I didn't realize I was supposed to psychically know about lemmy lore before ever using it.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (59 children)

Most of us don’t judge users but we are internally vocal about our own social challenges.

.ml is a big instances and people coming from the old web find such attractive, it feels like “the official one” we are well aware.

The have been attempts to advertise avoiding those but were not exactly a well coordinated organization.

Regardless the ideology of .ml and others big instances pose a problem in centralized power. Lemmy works best as many tiny servers organically building a network of content and ideas.

All of Lemmy is accessible as long as your instance is federated (almost all) however some may defederate from those problematic big ones, limiting the posts you can see.

You wont lose much by changing instance right now. There is no karma or rewards associated with your account. You can also make multiple on different instances with the same user name so you have a backup if your main instance goes down.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (55 children)

the ideology of .ml and others big instances pose a problem in centralized power.

it's not centralized, .world is considerably bigger and way more conservative, like it even has a splinter /c/196 populated with everyone who thought neo pronouns and basic levels of respect were too hard

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I include .world in the category “other”

For the record i am also starting to feel like sopuli is getting a bit crowded. Don’t get me wrong everyone is welcome i just think we can benefit from more independent niches and corners.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I strongly prefer having niches and area with different cultures rather than single large instances too. I just don't think people shitflinging based on peoples instance and broad stereotypes about the instance culture is a helpful behavior for any community. Yet it's extremely common for these type of two minutes hate threads because they're just baiting a response.