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LA Times reports that Palm Springs bomber had an account on Lemmy.world
(www.latimes.com)
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I think I am a world user, it was just the top of a drop down menu when I created my lemmy. God damn it.
You've got nothing to worry about. It's the largest instance. There's no particular stigma for users on it. Unlike there is for the more ideologically selected instances, like .ml.
Lemmy.world is also ideologically selected, they deliberately defederated from the larger explicitly Marxist-aligned instances. Lemm.ee is an example of an instance that tries to be more ideologically neutral, .world is openly liberal aligned.
They're a huge instance most people joined by default. No one sane thinks a .world account means anything about the person posting under it, except maybe they just went along with the pseudo-default.
You guys think there's a big rivalry and anyone who hasn't rebelled against the unjust persecution of the tankiest instances must have cast their lot in with the enemy, but in reality no one really thinks about it at all.
I don't judge people based on their instance at an individual level, that's not my point. Like you said, most on Lemmy.world picked it because it's the largest instance. However, the moderation and admins do have an ideological bent, and over time this filters out users that don't "fit in" with that, leading to an "average user" with views aligning with the average mods and admins.
I don't really care ahout inter-instance drama, it's not that deep. But I do notice trends and I understand how soft-censorship works and how consent is manufactured. Plus, there are terminally online users on Lemmy.world that do see all Marxists as enemies and wish to take down Lemmy.ml, so that does exist, and is tolerated by Lemmy.world mods and admins.
Then there’s me, who joined .world because it was the largest, is a Marxist, but has no idea how to even switch instances or access .ml where I would like to be 😂
I chose my instance because it wasn't defederated by .world and hadn't defederated from hexbear or .ml https://midwest.social/instances
I like my leftism but I also like my slop.
You can just make an account! Go to Lemmy.ml, or whichever other instance you'd like such as Hexbear.net or Lemmygrad.ml, and apply for an account. You can't really swap over, but you can create a new account and log in that way.
I do think it would be better if people spread out a bit more though. I don't believe it's healthy for our communities to have any instance approaching "default" startus.