this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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Am I the Asshole?

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I think !amitheasshole is deleted by creator.

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Hello, this community exists because [email protected] is deleted by creator, thus effectively abandoned by the creator. My problem is that there is already one in lemmy.world called [email protected]. So AITA for keeping this community open, while the subscribers are wondering why there isn't any activity here?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NTA.

A community existing on a separate independent instance shouldn't be a factor in deciding if an aita community exists on this instance. Even though [email protected] will have more traffic, this community should still probably exist because a local lemmy.ml option isn't a bad thing, and we'd have an established alternative should we ever need to defederate lemmy.world for whatever reason.

YTA for setting the community language settings to disallow specifying English as an option though 😜

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

YTA for setting the community language settings to disallow specifying English as an option though

Can you explain what you mean with this? I don't understand it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

NTA

Just one question, can we shill use this community?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

#LemmyWorld is in Cloudflare’s access-restricted walled garden. It’s an asshole instance that not only excludes some people from access but it hoards people who are in the included group, creating a perversely centralized power imbalance that rewards elitists. To non-assholes, Lemmy World communities are parasitic because they rob the fedi of the decentralized balance it needs. To participate in Lemmy World communities is to either be uninformed/out of touch OR to be an informed asshole.

That said, lemmy.ml is not a great place either. At least it’s not excluding people on the basis of IP address, but it’s still disproportionately large and has a history of political baggage by admins who are very trigger-happy with the censor button. You could have chosen a better instance, like Sopuli, but then your sidebar acknowledges the apparent past existence of a Sopuli AITA community.

NTA for giving refuge from a destructive instance. If it were reversed, and you were to create a community on Lemmy World that already exists in the free world, it would be a YTA case. Poaching users from a bad instance is a good semaritan move.

How to fix this


Promote the most digital rights respecting venue in the sidebar, which is [email protected]. Encourage cross-posts to and from discuss.tchncs.de. Make no mention of Lemmy World and other centralized nodes.

I would not normally post in lemmy.ml but thought this thread was worthy of an exception.