The mods of all the major communities there remove comments criticism Hexbear and usually follow it up with a ban. It's absolutely clear what is happening and it shouldn't be allowed to continue.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (60 children)

Lemmy.ml is not only a massive instance, it is also the original and core lemmy instance. Widespread defederation would be like a nuclear bomb to the lemmy platform.

Some people have developed alternatives in the threadiverse like kbin or piefed. If lemmy.ml is truly too far aflight for users to tolerate, it seems likely that alternative platforms will fill in the gaps. For now, lemmy is still a thriving and growing platform.

[–] qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.ee 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's not thriving. The devs are prickly arseholes, which is anathema to building a cooperative, volunteer-driven dev community and the tone of many mainstream communities is obnoxiously set by tankies amd their alts.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Probably one of if not the biggest reasons people had poor experiences on Lemmy before was because they signed up on Lemmy.ml

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

LOL this was me. I thought it would be cool to be on the DEV instance and didn't know that it had a whole lot of other baggage on it.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It would've been me too, but when I started looking at Lemmy the dev's instance was closed along with many others, so the first one was Lemmy.world for me. While Lemmy.world has its flaws it's still way better than ml, really dodged a bullet there.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

You were lucky. I got in right before the Reddit exodus, so I guess I got in before they closed things down.

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 7 points 8 months ago

What have they done to prevent a cooperative, volunteer driven dev community?

My experience contributing to lemmy was not bad, albeit it was pretty small thing.

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