I just blocked LW, not that I really have anything against it, there is just too much drama. (IE what you're seeing trying to migrate your community)

90% of the posts in my 'feed' were from LW, even though it made up less than 20% of the communities I was subscribed to.

Moving away from LW is the best thing for the health of the fediverse in the long run. There is too much liability on that single instance, and they're only going to get more restrictive to cover their legal liabilities - and I don't really blame them. If people continue to centralize there, it will only guarantee a large future collapse and migration similar to reddit July-2023.

Decentralization = stability. It's the whole point of the fediverse.

Thank you for suggesting lemmy.zip btw, it's so much nicer. A lot less stressful. I've been meaning to migrate some communities (I have to get the time to put a poll together to see if that's what people want).

I've seen a lot of LW users behaving like this.

They want a single comm per topic, preferably in LW; and everyone should go to that comm, no dissidence allowed. Always talking about "not splitting efforts", or some FUD like "unless we gather together Lemmy will never succeed".

And, when you tell them a clear "no", they throw a tantrum. Like Serinus did there.

I think that they got out of Reddit, but they didn't get Reddit out of themselves. They still behave like this was a Reddit-like monolithic platform; so when they see decentralisation - like multiple comms for the same topic, in different instances - they treat it as a bug, when it's a feature.

~~Anyway, I'd call that FAPTB (failed attempt of powertripping).~~ EDIT: wow, they removed your mention of the other comm! Talk about pettiness. PTB.

we think flat earthers should be more respected than leftists on our instance

People rush faster off lw

lw harrases people posting elsewhere

Does lw have the same PR philosophy of musk and spez?

Am I just using Lemmy differently from these people? I want to find a community, I go to search, it pulls up all connected instances, I pick which one has the highest subscribe count regardless of what instance it’s on and use it like any other community. (Well, minus tankie instances). It’s really no trouble if it’s somewhere else and half the times I don’t even notice.

.world mods and admins are just seething right now because they were unsuccessful in moving 196 to .world. The whole community just fucked off to !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone

This behaviour will just continue, its what .world is destined to do because they think we need them.

I love that one can actually hope to call out BS on the Fediverse.

Yeah, this one is PTB territory for sure.

While balancing decentralized communities with making it easy to find and use communities is always going to be difficult, you don't use your mod position and admin position to try and force whatever side you think is best. That is part of the reason multiple communities on multiple instances are a good thing.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of times where consolidating onto the most visible community for a given topic makes sense. There's times it's necessary even, rather than optional, particularly when one of the communities is on an instance where it's essentially useless. But the whole reason lemmy works is it not being conglomerated entirely.

Yeah, .world is the biggest instance, so there's a good bit of gravity. It makes sense for more niche, smaller, or hard to search for communities to land there. When a community is already going to have trouble being used, you remove as many barriers as possible. If I was going to start the C/ menwholookandsmelllikesasquatch , I'd start it on .world, not bumfuck.nowhere. Also, if I ever run my own instance, that's what I'm going to name it.

But LoL? C'mon, lemmy can support multiples of that. Not even just two, you could have half a dozen and it would be fine. Moderation styles alone will give each their own vibe.

An example from reddit. I play a mobile game. The main, big sub on reddit for it is tightly moderated, with daily and weekly threads to streamline the usual questions and repetitive posts. So you get more dedicated players, doing deep theory crafting, min-maxing, etc. The smaller sub is definitely flooded with the usual noob questions posted fifteen times a week, but the vibe is looser, more prone to joking and casual play.

A game as big as LoL? You could have a dozen forums and each would be worth using for different reasons.

Which is another long winded tangent, but it points out exactly how useless the argument that the PTB was making is.

lemmy.flatworld at it again lmao, my bet is that they want to control all the main communities on the fediverse (the irony lol) and you don't seem like you would play ball

Is it possible to see who moderates a particular action if they don’t comment? These sort of posts and recently having my own post moderated for “politeness” (after implying some iamverysmart tool huffs their own farts) has lead me to believe the multiple groups having issues with LW moderation have good reason for it.

Like for this post, I want to understand people not wanting to split traffic when lemmy isn’t exactly swimming in it but I don’t know.