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PSA: Alternatives for the most popular lemmy.ml communities (lemm.ee)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/fediverse
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For all your boycotting needs. I'm sure there's some mods caught in lemmy.ml's top 10 that are perfectly upstanding and reasonable people, my condolences for the cross-fire.

  1. [email protected] and [email protected]. Or of course communities that rule.
  2. [email protected]
  3. [email protected]. Quite small, plenty of more specific ones available. Also linux is inescapable on lemmy anyway :)
  4. [email protected]
  5. [email protected]
  6. [email protected] and maybe [email protected], lemmy.one itself seems to be up in the air. [email protected] says [email protected]. They really seem to be hiding even from another, those tinfoil hats :)
  7. [email protected]
  8. Seems like [email protected] and [email protected], various smaller comic-specifc communities as well as [email protected]
  9. [email protected]
  10. [email protected]

(Out of the loop? Here's a thread on lemmy.ml mods and their questionable behaviour)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

With that out of the way, most of your suggestions boil down to “use lemmy.world instead”.

It's where big replacement communities happen to be, that's all there is to it. Avoiding centralisation is a good thing in general but "tired of .ml mods? Here's alternatives" isn't the right time to go for it I think. Maybe the admins can come up with a scheme to round-robin disable community creation or something, to spread things out. Also, community migration is in the pipeline software-wise that would help a lot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm thinking that perhaps the community could/should go a step further, and create another instance to talk about open source and privacy. That would be IMO the best scenario - it would be a great counterpoint to .ml, and it would avoid centralising Lemmy around .world even further.

(I also feel like this might be better even for the devs. Administrative work isn't exactly pleasing, and if I had to take a guess they mostly maintain that instance because they need it for the software. But that's just a guess, don't trust me on that.)

inb4: yes, I know - easier said than done. But I feel like it could be a good option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

FYI, a post on [email protected] about a !privacy community: https://mander.xyz/post/13928027

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Lots of good suggestions there. It would be great if @[email protected] mentioned at least [email protected] and [email protected] in the OP.

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

FYI, an update on the [email protected] post on the !privacy community: https://lemm.ee/post/34088759?scrollToComments=true

Long story short, [email protected] is a nice option, it even has more active users per week than the LW equivalent (376 vs 346)