Preston Maness ☭

“It kinda feels like my filter bubble is being pierced. Can we fix that?”

I get what you’re saying, but as of now a lot of people new to the concept of the Fediverse just don’t care. They’re going to join the instances with the most people. Like the Mastodon migration, this will inevitibly result in a “default” instance regardless of how people feel. Not sure if that’ll change, unless something forces people to realize maintaining the decentralized aspect of these servives is very important.

The masses need not understand the importance of decentralization. Only the admins of the instances do. And when admins seek to compulsively accumulate users en masse, rather than close off registration and route to other instances, it’s a pretty obvious tell as to what they’re doing.

I feel like you’re ascribing way to much to leftists when far right and libertarians were fleeing reddit too. Like, it’s not just the left that interest in a non-corporate environment.

Liberals are not “leftists,” and they are not of “the left.” Liberalism is a right-wing ideology (just not as right-wing) and as such, is devoted to capitalism.

I don’t think tinwhiskers has problems with communists. If they had problem with communists, they would surely have said “communists”.

They said “tankies”. I am more inclined to suggest their issue is with tankies, not communists.

“Tankie” is a pejorative for Marxist-Leninist, the most successful approach to building communism in all of history, responsible for improving the material conditions of hundreds of millions of people on a scale never before seen in history. Anyone who unironically uses “tankie” as a pejorative in the 21st century is thoroughly anti-communist, be it intentionally or otherwise.

Don’t sign up to lemmy.ml or you’ll need to sign up again on a new instance when they get defederated. Tankies. I guess a blind eye is being turned right now because numbers are important for survival atm, but I wouldn’t consider it a future-proof instance.

It never ceases to amuse me that throngs of liberals, fleeing from yet another capitalist centralized service doing what capitalist centralized services do, are so quick to denigrate the work of the communists that made their flight to an alternative possible in the first place. We wouldn’t have Lemmy – and the numerous improvements to Groups in the ActivityPub standard – if it weren’t for communists like them.

Also, LemmyGrad.ml has most of the “tankies.” Lemmy.ml is more generically socialist.

I fully expect .world to become the default at some point, it statistically has more active users and is outgrowing .ml at a rapid pace.

The whole point of federation is that there is no such thing as “the default.” As soon as that happens, it becomes Just Another Reddit Clone.

Last I heard they had plans to integrate into it, but nothing active yet.

I’ll be interested to see if they try to keep the money happy by trying to kill porn on reddit. If they try that reddit would be in worse shape than Trump.

Worked out so great for Tumblr. But apparently the plan is to take all the worst ideas from the past couple years and speedrun 'em, so I wouldn’t be surprised.

It definitely feels like they’re going for a world record in the “kill your golden goose as fast as possible” category.

I approve.