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I was just reading this post https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1gmv76n/is_reddit_going_to_remain_the_primary_space_for/ and many barely see the fediverse as an alternative and they seem to have a negative bias towards it. Super ironic when it comes to the self-hosting community. Yes, some instances are problematic, yes, some devs might have had problematic views. But it doesn't really matter when it's federated and FOSS. I think it's clear-cut that the selfhosting community on Lemmy is a perfect alternative to reddit. Why is there such a negative bias?

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[โ€“] spiritsong 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

For some reason after reading this (because I'm very new to Lemmy), your post made me feel like that squiggly thing / slime inside the box that wanted freedom, then the moment it takes a step outside, got punched back in and now is happily being inside the box, even if its cramped.

I think it was a meme too.

Yeah, but I do feel that way (after taking a look there)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Many people left lemmy.ml for that reason. Some of us even left Lemmy altogether - e.g. I'm writing this to you from PieFed, which allows blocking of all users from Lemmy.ml (Lemmy itself does not support that - its "instance blocking" only stops communities from an instance, but not users).