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Really wish that wasn't on .ml
Edit: Hi tankies! Stalin was a bad dude, stay mad.
Hey i just like him for the poetry. I'm not even an ideological communist.
So am I looked differently because I happened to join .ml instead some other instance? I was at first at different one, but lost my login and hadn’t used an email when signing up so I had to create another one. I just chose one instance randomly and it happened to be ml. I’m I fucked?
Yes. There is just as much prejudice and drama here as on Reddit. Just just different flavored
not really, but .ml kinda has a bad recognition due to numerous issues with some people on it
Sort of a guilt by association thing. The .ml instance is also defederated from some other instances because of this. I wouldn't say you're fucked but it was enough to get me to first switch instances and then switch platforms to Mbin entirely because I found out the main devs for Lemmy are also admins for the .ml.
I think most people would probably be understanding but some people will definitely make assumptions due to the instance names. I would be more worried about the admins messing with my posts or banning me because they didn't like something I said. Hexbear is another would I would recommend avoiding, not sure if their domain got banned or what but they were very unpopular amongst most of the instances because of extremist shit.
Edit: lol, tankies mad! Donwvote away but the instance earned its rep and clicking the down arrow on my post makes no difference, especially when they're going to keep censoring posts they don't like.
So now I need to find out how to switch instances and what I’ll loose by doing so.
Great. Just what I wanted after leaving big tech social media.
Everything's got problems. Ours are just smaller and more fiddly.
It's not that hard to pick a new instance. .ml has pretty limited reach, other servers have much wider federation, maybe contains-the-whole-circle wider.
You just sign up on another, it's not too bad, but it's not like you HAVE to move either.
You're fine man. Think someone assuming you're old because you use yahoo for email, not getting jumped for wearing the wrong gang colours
It's also really easy to make a new account if somewhere seems cool enough that you want to
I was actually going to jump them re: colors.
Lots of random unaffiliated people end up on .ml and it's not as serious as you're worrying.
If you want to switch, "switching" is mostly a matter of creating an account on that one and just using that, as far as I understand it.
But I'm pretty sure Lemmy has an account settings feature that lets you export and re-import things like community subscriptions, etc.
Try not to get frustrated, it only feels this way at first. Congrats on leaving the corporate hellscape.
I have plenty of posts saved for later reading, just like I had in Reddit. Just recently I managed to open all of those, gather links and delete my account. It feels really frustrating possibly having to do that again and knowing I might have to do it yet again in the future if my next chosen instance turns into a something scummy. Really puts a rather sour note on the whole federated thing.
I understand the fatigue but would encourage you to see federation differently. Thanks to federation, if that happens, you can pick up and move (again using the export tool...) and still use basically the same familiar service, interact with many of the same communities and user bases, etc.
Change and enshittification are inevitable. Without federation you get poor tools for exporting and end up having to cast off in search of new platforms entirely.
If you stick around, you won't be hopping instances as often as you might think. And having the freedom to do so without completely turning your back on a whole platform and its communities user bases, etc. - it's just super valuable.
Maybe, but how would I even know what instances are here to stay, populated and moderated by good people and so on?
Uhh. By spending a little time here...
Not sure what to tell ya, kinda feels like you've made it more complicated in your head than it is. The brief little comment that pointed out things about .ml is one of the ways ya find out about things around here.
It's not some weird sea of forever evolving chaos. Just relax and hang out for a while.
Or don't. It's really that simple, idk
How can I possibly determine a good instance just by spending time here? I usually don’t even check usernames when reading posts or comments.
What's wrong with .ml?
It's a tankie instance that censors and bans people who don't align with their politics (which are pretty extreme, Stalin is looked upon kindly and his body count A-OK as far as they're concerned, criticism and free speech are very much not though).
I used to have an account there and this wasn't my experience, and I used to be a capitalist back then. I mainly quit because there was nothing to do there, this was before lemmy gained an actual userbase following the reddit api situation when the most popular post on the whole network had one hundred upvotes and eight comments or something.
You'll be fine if you don't involve yourself with the political communities, I don't see why you would considering there still doesn't seem to be much activity there.
Ya, fuck free speech I love mass killing
There was no Holodomor comrade, it was like, you know, they just made it up or something idk
I really wish they'd not use slop for the header, so it's a no, I guess.
So do I =) To be fair, I first tried registering on db0 instance and start this community here. But my account was rejected for some reason (probebly me not able to pass registration process LOL).
Might be worth considering going to Mbin or Piefed instead? I've been enjoying kbin.earth a lot more than my old Lemmy instance. Piefed looks pretty good too but I haven't really tried it yet.
Yeah not going to bother with anything else besides lemmy. Which instance I do this in dosnt really matter to me as long as community and posts allowed and not deleted. First sign of deletion from that instance I'm gone.
I'd add to the suggestions Friendica too. Unfamiliar with Piefed (maybe I'll create an account on the flagship instance to try out), but the other two also allow following microblogging stuff (e.g. Mastodon), as well as having microblogging functions to thread posts (e.g. boosting and tags).
Is Friendica federated too?
Piefied is very similar to Lemmy and Mbin/Kbin.
Federated, ye:
https://ani.social/post/27255390
Design-wise, Friendica resembles Facebook.
Ah ok. I've always been more partial to forum style websites but I'd much rather see people use that over anything META owns!
Not interested if it's on .ml.