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jointhefediverse.net seems to be a commonly linked resource for directing people to join the Fediverse.

Curiously, it does not list Lemmy under the list of Reddit alternatives. Their GitHub README explains why.

Previous relevant discussion: https://lemmy.ml/post/78808

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes, that's quite old, not sure why OP is bringing this up now.

Most of the people here know about the Lemmy devs political stances. Quite a few people are waiting for Piefed and Mbin to catch up. Nothing new to see here.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I don't know. I just came across it yesterday, and I thought it'd be something interesting to share.

It was explained in the post's body actually:

Curiously, it does not list Lemmy under the list of Reddit alternatives.

Most of the people here know about the Lemmy devs political stances.

Seeing as I've only started using Lemmy less than a month ago, I've only just very recently started realizing that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

It's okay, I see your account is quite new, so no worries.

As I said, those issues are known, you can have a look at [email protected] for posts complaining about power tripping mods, be it lemmy.ml or elsewhere.

The key takeaway is that even with its flaws, Lemmy is the biggest Reddit alternative by far (Discuit has less than 200 weekly active posters, Lemmy has 42000). If there would have been a better alternative people would probably have moved there, but there wasn't (and still isn't) any, so here we are

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

I appreciate you posting it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This was like me months ago. A lot of people here take the mentality of "Well I know about it, so it MUST be common knowledge that everybody knows!"

Completely forgetting that there are 8 billion people on the planet, and something like 65k people on lemmy. Statistically speaking, this means basically nobody in the entire planet knows about lemmy, or the issues with lemmy.ml.

So for every NEW user, this is ALWAYS new info. It's not like facebook where I don't have an account, but already know zuck's a massive piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The question is more "how many people on Lemmy know about the ml political stance"

Posts like this (https://feddit.org/post/3912054) with 205 comments show that most of the people are usually aware.

For new joiners, there is a post on [email protected] about this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

FWIW: I used join-lemmy.org and found lemmy.ml, submitted my registration, but then checked on Wikipedia and it says lemmy.world is the largest instance, so I wanted to cancel my registration for lemmy.ml (there's no such feature according to the admin). Anyway, that's how I ended up here on lemmy.world 😆

Did not notice any of the political leanings until just a few days ago, so it's definitely not obvious unless you look deeper into things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You can have multiple accounts on multiple instances. In fact, I recommend it. No need to delete your ml account, just keep it as a backup or curate a different feed on it.

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

I'm way too lazy for that. I don't even have more than 1 email account. I use the same username everywhere lol...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

As I said, you're new here.

I bring up the topic regularly on /r/Redditalternatives: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1fmuk7o/post_to_address_the_usual_criticism_about_lemmy/

Every time I mention Lemmy there, I point to discuss.online and sopuli.xyz: https://reddit.com/comments/1hxduw2/comment/m68fhsc

It is also part of a dedicated post on [email protected] : https://lemmy.world/post/21568033

We could probably improve its visibility.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Block .ml

Block me

Who cares how others use Lemmy? I don't. Feel free to make another feud post this week. Stick it to us champ!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Who cares how others use Lemmy? I don’t.

I do, because I would like Lemmy to reach 100k monthly active users, so that other posters can join communities I keep alive. Lemmy.ml reputation is detrimental to this.

On the other hand, I respect the Lemmy devs as developers, just not as admins.