tbf people just wanna sign up and click on funny links, not browse through 100 rando instances to find the one that lines up with their exact interests and wait for approval and worry about uptime and whether their instance will still exist in a year
I feel that, while lemmy is still a work in progress, it is already pretty adequate for solving this need. If you want to subscribe to other instances you can do it from within your insance by going up to communities and searching. You can also click the all tab and see a bunch of instances from around lemmy that your instance is federated with.
I think mastadon struggled with this because the twitter model is to follow people and depending how far removed the servers are this can be trickier. Compared to lemmy where people interested in a single subject will likely target and find the subject theyre interested in and bring themselves together naturally.
Furthermore I think some people are splitting up and dividing into sub instances and tiny subjects a little prematurely. Reddit didnt get super esoteric with it's subs until it got big and the larger subs either declined or got too noisy to talk about certain things. Like for example how beehaw has an operatingsystems instance instead of a linux, ubuntu, macos, windows, fedora, archinux, opensuse, openbsd, etc. Right now there arent enough of us that we dont need to subdivide.
I've seen people literally signing up here just to make like 50 empty communities and not post or comment on anything at all. Definitely a lot of folks just trying to stake some territory that they think will be valuable in the future.
Lemmy.world checking in
I definitely didnt pick sh.itjust.works for the funny name, naaaaaaaaah
you are marked as 'robot account' on leemy.sdf.org
Lemmy world was the only one that let me sign up lol
Same
New feddit.de user reporting in
Ze Germans seem to have their own monopolistic instance
Created mine on feddit.de to get the german equivalent of Catastrophe as a username. And also because I live in Germany
And I thought I had choose the wrong one....
The dude on the left is too happy about it to be a lemmy.ml admin.
Beehaw seems pretty dope
They actually defederated with lemmy.world due to spam, kindof sucks, as users will miss out on communities on lemmy.world, lots of which were not spam.
We could use alternatives, but Lemmy is the best!
I use lemmy.world. they have an associated mastodon as well.
Same here, except I have no interest in Mastodon.
I'm in lemmy.world. they have an associated mastodon as well.
proudly hailing from NOT lemmy.ml 🤗
lemmy.ca - Hailing from beautiful Nova Scotia! 🇨🇦
lemmy.world unite!
They need to do away with the ridiculous manual approval process on most servers and recommend servers that forego it on the main site.
I tried to make an account on lemmy.ml and it looks like their servers are (understandably) overloaded
I ended up choosing lemmy.world instead
My understanding is I'm not missing out on anything by chosing a less-popular instance. Did I get that right?
I signed up for another one, but they haven't approved me yet!
Idk why anyone would use the main instance and choose to be admined by pro-CCP tankies
What does this mean?
Is Lemmy made by them?
The people who run lemmy.ml also run lemmygrad.ml and that second one has a fair amount of communist propaganda. I'm not talking about stuff like "workers unite!" I'm taking about stuff like "actually no one was killed at tiananmen square and if anyone was it was soldiers who were killed by those unruly students and not the other way around."
This wouldn't be so bad, except that they federate Lemmygrad so the main instance will occasionally get to see literal propaganda that the admins won't take down.
Edit: So as not to get into a dumb argument, I'll spell it out here in the edit for anyone who missed the point. The problem is not viewing the world through a different lense, the problem is an outright denial of reality. Denial of basic facts. You're free to interpret facts however you want. You're not allowed to just deny reality. This is a problem all over the world, and it's bad no matter who is doing it.
I dont understand why it bothers you so much. Why do you need to have the same political views as people who run an instance?
It doesnt even bother me that people have those opinions. You know how much stuff from the US that is complete lies and propaganda? You probably dont even notice if you are used to it. :)
Its just the world we live in. There are no good countries. The US shot down hundreds or thousands of middle east civilians using drones from kilometers away, just routinely, like its nothing. Not seeing them as humans. Its like a computer game.
I think its best to just focus on our lives and not try to act as forum soldiers for the countries we happen to live in. They are all bad.
