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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by OpenStars@discuss.online to c/bestoflemmy@lemmy.world

https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

Lemmy.ml, like lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net, has consistently been accused of improper Federation practices and many instances have decided to ban one or both of the latter by default, with many individual users having already gone further to block the former as well. However, many individual users on lemmy.ml seem unaware of the accusations of the practices of their admins, and some people go so far as to see lemmy.ml as a sort of default instance on the Fediverse.

This discussion promotes wider knowledge of the situation and what might be done about it in the future, in order to e.g. not turn away new potential Federation members (Fedizens?:-) that could otherwise associate what happens on that instance as something relating to the Fediverse as a whole.

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 13 points 5 months ago

your home instance doesnt necessarily need to be a behemoth as you can subscribe to all the same stuff. ive got a dozen or so users at moist.catsweat.com who primarily consume lemmy content

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 13 points 5 months ago

The one issue smaller instances have is that the All feed is much less populated as communities only show up if at least one user of the instance is subscribed to it.

Not a dealbreaker of course, but something to be aware of.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 8 points 5 months ago

yeah i kinda did something silly by have a bot user subscribe to populated communities in popular instances to resolve that exact issue. it misses the brand new ones though.

/new is my favorite

[-] shinysquirrel@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

that's a huge dealbreaker all I use currently is the All feed

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 5 points 5 months ago

Which is why all the instances I recommended you have a large number of users (lemm.ee even has more monthly active users than lemmy.ml: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/)

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