While I have not blocked the instance (yet), I purposely try not to post anything on any community hosted there and rather look for alternatives. Sometimes it's easier to comment and or post on an ml instance due to it being larger in user size such as the !privacy@lemmy.ml vs !privacy@lemmy.world - but in these cases I will crosspost too.
Personally, I don't. I get from your story that you seem to have been abusively banned, and from the comments that it doesn't seem like an isolate case. But while that might deter me from making an account there, or at most from having a community hosted there, it's not like anything bad comes to me from merely interacting with .ml content. The only servers worth blocking in my opinion are those full of spammers, or of content I'd personally hate to see in any situation.
Interestingly enough, I don't really have issues with lemmy.ml myself
I never brought up political topics on any of their communities, so I am fine until now
I wish that political ideology wasn't such a thing to worry about on Lemmy. It's sadly easy to find extremist content, even on the homepage, when you're not logged in.
I'm more of an anarchist and I've not had issues with hexbear or .ml, though I don't block lemmygrad I'm not subbed to most of their communities mostly because sectarianism bothers me.
I feel like I always have to check if I'm posting on something that's on .world because even relatively mild off-color humor can get removed as "incivility" if it rubs a mod the wrong way.
Whichever instance you choose, someone will have complaints about it. Personally I don't have issues with .ml, but there are quite a few "tech"-oriented instances over which my trigger finger is itching on the site ban trigger.
It's all a question of which subset of human stupidity you're willing to deal with. Because all humans are stupid, we're just different in how and where we express it.
but there are quite a few “tech”-oriented instances over which my trigger finger is itching on the site ban trigger.
Which ones? Lemmy.zip, lemdro.id, programming.dev?
I'm not going to name them. The point of this isn't to expose which instances I dislike, but rather to show that every instance has its fans and its antifans.
I guess there's a difference between not liking an instance, and the mods or admins power tripping and not following their own rules.
Sh.itjust.works for instance seems appreciated by almost everyone, except maybe for their name
I think it's generally best to host communities on politically neutral instances
Lemmy.ml is the only instance block I have, after seeing too many illiberal shit takes, bad faith arguments and socialist astroturf posts.
My instance quickly defederated from HexBear and LemmyGrad which is just fine by me, it's helpful most of the bad eggs are concentrated in just a few places.
If you move sim racing, would you mind replying to me to let me know? I follow the current one just cause I think sim racing is neat. If it gets moved I'd love to follow the new one
(Totally fine if that's too much work :)
We'll probably post there so you should see it :)
Thanks!
Have a good one man! 😊
Yes, except a few selected communities I completely avoid interacting with lemmy.ml
So that should be a "no" really :)
For me it's a no, but looking at my subscribed communities, i don't have all that many ml communities in there tbh.
The ones that i like best and that don't have a better alternative elsewhere are !crows@lemmy.ml and !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml and i guess the ones about lemmy itself and jerboa.
The way they seem to be banning people is worrying to me, the ml users i generally don't have a problem with, but i'm avoiding politics.
For me it's FOSS og communities like !PeerTube@lemmy.ml or !librewolf@lemmy.ml that don't have alternatives on other instances neither
And that's completely understandable
I don’t refrain from participating in Lemmy.ml community unless the mods of that community act like the admins do. The majority of users aren’t my issue with Lemmy.ml at least on the non political communities, it’s the admin’s suppression of opposition
This succinctly covers my view on it as well. I think it'll be more of a problem a few years down the road as statist admin culture begins to influence the mods of more instances, but for now I treat it on an instance-by-instance, user-by-user basis. I wouldn't be surprised if majority of community leaders and users in general went to lemmy.ml simply because it was one of the larger instances last year and didn't think much more of it than that.
If I have a choice, though, I'll still try to grow a community on one of the smaller instances simply because it's still one of the largest ones, and that's better for the health of the network.
Also blocked it.
Depends. I've reccomened this before too, but I keep both world and ml "World News" communities because even though they're defederated, having both seems to encompass a better range of sources and topics.
No. I think .ml is becoming some kind of bogey man. At the end of the day I think any instance is gonna have its own slant and bias; which isn’t a problem for me, personally.
Blocked the whole thing on my instance.
A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
The rules may be more established as time goes on, but it's important to have a foundation to work on.
1. Follow the rules of Lemmy.world - These rules are the same as Mastodon.world's rules, which can be found here.
2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.
Please include this following format in your post:
[link text](/c/community@instance.com)
This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't
You should also include either:
or instance.com/c/community
Q: Why do I get a 404?
A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.
Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?
A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.
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