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[–] [email protected] 94 points 3 hours ago (8 children)

Having them pointed towards lemmy.ml is a little concerning.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I made an alternative linking to lemm.ee

because in general this is a good flyer

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

We should do a bunch of them with varying non-Tankie instances

Like programming.dev or lemmy.blahaj.zone

Or maybe even better, have a small table at the bottom with their focuses

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah. join-lemmy.org unfortunately isn’t great because it often points to random semi dead instances.

Something like,

The instance you join doesn’t matter much — because you can access all content no matter what instance you are on — but it can be nice to be on an instance that shares you interests and values, because you will have to conform to the rules of that instance. Think of it like your clan — it’s like your email being yourname@yourworkplace — you can still email everyone else and see their emails, but it signals something about you, and it has different rules.

Here are a couple options:

General Purpose:

  • discuss.online (hosted US)
  • lemm.ee
  • lemmy.cafe
  • sh.itjust.works (hosted Canada)

Interests:

  • mander.xyz (Science)
  • programming.dev (Programming)
  • infosec.pub (Cybersecurity)
  • lemmynsfw.com (Porn)

Diversity:

  • lemmy.blahaj.zone (LGBTQ+)

Regions/Langauges:

  • jlai.lu (French)
  • feddit.org (German)
  • lemmy.ca (Canada)
  • aussie.zone (Australia)

Ideology:

  • lemmy.dbzer0.com (Anarchism and Piracy)
  • slrpnk.net (Environmentalist Leftists)
  • lemmy.ml (Authoritarian Leftists)

Please copypaste my comment and add instances / improve it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

I like the idea, but people have said several times that choosing an instance is a barrier for them.

I usually go with

"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users

Feel free if you have any questions"

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago

More than a little concerning, it's happened plenty of times before. People see that BS on the Tankie Triad and then leave thinking Lemmy is just a bunch of tankies

Sometimes they try another non-Tankie instance and realize that we're not all like that, but I'm sure a majority never return always thinking that all of Lemmy is "that Tankie hangout" or worse, a Voat 2.0

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago (8 children)

I'm not very into Lemmy, what's so bad about lemmy.ml?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 hours ago

They're part of the Tankie Triad who deny the human rights violations of the CCP and hold them up as the gold standard.

Basically Authoritarian bootlickers pretending to not be authoritarians

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

It's a tankie instance. "ML" as in Marxism-Leninism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

And here I was thinking it was just a cheap ccTLD to use.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

and in practice they are more MLM (maoism) or MLS (stalinism).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

Yeah if they were run of the mill Marxists it'd be one thing, but it's an authoritarian mess

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago (9 children)

It's controversial. It was created by the creators of Lemmy and has some techbro feelings about a lot of stuff. I'm not trying to start an .ml fight, I'm against pushing for any particular instance.

I would recommend new users to stay away from the biggest ones and steer towards one level down. You want enough communities and instances to line your front page, but the big ones are big enough. Let's spread the load.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That's some grade A fine vintage gourmet cringe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 55 minutes ago

It's quite bombastic. I just wanted a place that wasn't run by a corporation.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 hours ago (14 children)

i left yesterday after 12 years. joined lemmy. the internet was a lot cooler before it was run by billionaires and ass kissers who are intimidated by billionaires.

fuck em all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

Welcome!

The web UI is accessible on any device and there are plenty of apps as well such as Sync and Voyager.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 hours ago

i left yesterday after 12 years. joined lemmy.

Welcome!

Here's your welcome-possum:

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 52 minutes ago

Lemmy mods delete posts and threads too. Interesting choice to use the Lemmy.ml instance in this message. Coincidentally they just deleted one of my threads in asklemmy recently.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

You lost me at the tankie instance link.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

They should really include the no ads thing. I think it's a great selling point, and it would be useful to leverage.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

While I agree with the message, that the people should leave all centralized Social Media services, the big mistake here is concentrating a massive user-base on one instance (.ml) of one specific service (Lemmy) instead of spreading the influx towards many smaller, but still solid instances and federated services (PieFed, Mastodon, MBin).

Even disregarding .ml's reputation, if this post does reach a substantial user-base, the only thing happening then is .ml receiving a HoD and people losing faith in the Fediverse as a whole (e: spelling) due to this, sadly. :c

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago

I saw it being denounced as a psyop which I thought was funny, since I think it pretty clearly isn't one. But directing people to lemmy.ml is bad advice as most of us know.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

where every user is a revolutionary

Ahem. Cosplays as a revolutionary.

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