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BADROBOT@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

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MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

So am I looked differently because I happened to join .ml instead some other instance? I was at first at different one, but lost my login and hadn’t used an email when signing up so I had to create another one. I just chose one instance randomly and it happened to be ml. I’m I fucked?

Randomgal@lemmy.ca · 11 hours ago

Yes. There is just as much prejudice and drama here as on Reddit. Just just different flavored

hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 2 days ago

not really, but .ml kinda has a bad recognition due to numerous issues with some people on it

DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 2 days ago

Sort of a guilt by association thing. The .ml instance is also defederated from some other instances because of this. I wouldn’t say you’re fucked but it was enough to get me to first switch instances and then switch platforms to Mbin entirely because I found out the main devs for Lemmy are also admins for the .ml.

I think most people would probably be understanding but some people will definitely make assumptions due to the instance names. I would be more worried about the admins messing with my posts or banning me because they didn’t like something I said. Hexbear is another would I would recommend avoiding, not sure if their domain got banned or what but they were very unpopular amongst most of the instances because of extremist shit.

Edit: lol, tankies mad! Donwvote away but the instance earned its rep and clicking the down arrow on my post makes no difference, especially when they’re going to keep censoring posts they don’t like.

GilloutineBreast@lemmy.ml · edit-2 52 minutes ago

I couldn’t give two shits about political mumbo jumbo, but I do care about defederation.

Made my account during the reddit exodus some years ago. Could you explain how bad the situation is? Like which major instaces am I defederatd from (again, don’t really care about any particular instances, just the accessibility of any major subreddit equivalents that are hosted there - dunno what they’re called in lemmy)

While you’re at it could you also recommend a good instance to migrate to? Ideally a populated one that doesn’t get involved in this left right communist capitalist bullshittery too much.

ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 11 minutes ago

I know that Lemmy.cafe is defederated from your instance, which hosts an active mealtime videos community, if that interests you.

A good neutral instance would be sopuli.xyz if you want to stick with Lemmy, or piefed.ca if you’d like to give the piefed interface a try.

Piefed has some neat features unique to it, such as:

a very nice gallery view for image heavy communities.
the ability to combine comments from multiple communities/instances under one post, if the same link was posted to all of them. You can see an example of that here (notice how the comments have dividers for each community).
the ability to create and subscribe to a pre-made list of communities, sorta like a multi-reddit.

MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml · 18 hours ago

So now I need to find out how to switch instances and what I’ll loose by doing so.

Great. Just what I wanted after leaving big tech social media.

ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 7 minutes ago

You can export all of your subscriptions, saved posts/comments and blocked user/comms by clicking the export button in your profile, which will give you a file you can import to any new account on a different Lemmy or piefed instance.

cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 hours ago

Everything’s got problems. Ours are just smaller and more fiddly.

It’s not that hard to pick a new instance. .ml has pretty limited reach, other servers have much wider federation, maybe contains-the-whole-circle wider.

DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 12 hours ago

You just sign up on another, it’s not too bad, but it’s not like you HAVE to move either.

GilloutineBreast@lemmy.ml · 55 minutes ago

Wouldn’t defederation be an issue, making most content inaccessible if I stay on this account? Sorry, I’m not entirely familiar with these things

moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 18 hours ago

You’re fine man. Think someone assuming you’re old because you use yahoo for email, not getting jumped for wearing the wrong gang colours

It’s also really easy to make a new account if somewhere seems cool enough that you want to

cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 hours ago

I was actually going to jump them re: colors.

PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 hours ago

Lots of random unaffiliated people end up on .ml and it’s not as serious as you’re worrying.

If you want to switch, “switching” is mostly a matter of creating an account on that one and just using that, as far as I understand it.

But I’m pretty sure Lemmy has an account settings feature that lets you export and re-import things like community subscriptions, etc.

Try not to get frustrated, it only feels this way at first. Congrats on leaving the corporate hellscape.

MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml · 14 hours ago

I have plenty of posts saved for later reading, just like I had in Reddit. Just recently I managed to open all of those, gather links and delete my account. It feels really frustrating possibly having to do that again and knowing I might have to do it yet again in the future if my next chosen instance turns into a something scummy. Really puts a rather sour note on the whole federated thing.

PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 hours ago

I understand the fatigue but would encourage you to see federation differently. Thanks to federation, if that happens, you can pick up and move (again using the export tool…) and still use basically the same familiar service, interact with many of the same communities and user bases, etc.

Change and enshittification are inevitable. Without federation you get poor tools for exporting and end up having to cast off in search of new platforms entirely.

If you stick around, you won’t be hopping instances as often as you might think. And having the freedom to do so without completely turning your back on a whole platform and its communities user bases, etc. - it’s just super valuable.

MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml · 5 hours ago

Maybe, but how would I even know what instances are here to stay, populated and moderated by good people and so on?

PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 hours ago

Uhh. By spending a little time here…

Not sure what to tell ya, kinda feels like you’ve made it more complicated in your head than it is. The brief little comment that pointed out things about .ml is one of the ways ya find out about things around here.

It’s not some weird sea of forever evolving chaos. Just relax and hang out for a while.

Or don’t. It’s really that simple, idk

MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml · 3 hours ago

How can I possibly determine a good instance just by spending time here? I usually don’t even check usernames when reading posts or comments.

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