I'm out of the loop, what's going on?

Here's a list of a few .ml communities and potential replacements:

• ask lemmy - !asklemmy@lemm.ee !asklemmy@sh.itjust.works
• linux - !linuxquestions@lemmy.zip !linux@linux.community !linux@programming.dev
• memes* - !memes@sopuli.xyz !memes@slrpnk.net !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone !memes@midwest.social
• programmer humor - !programmer_humor@programming.dev
• world news - !news@beehaw.org !globalnews@lemmy.zip
• technology - !technology@sh.itjust.works
• funny - !funny@sh.itjust.works
• ukraine - !ukraine@sopuli.xyz

Side note the main issue with .ml is transparency. It's fine if the admins of an instance implement whatever rules they want in their instance; however, once they start enforcing hidden rules disguised as violations of the listed rules, they're being liars and treating the users as stupid things to be herded, not as human beings.

EDIT: as people noticed I'm not including .world comms to not encourage even further concentration of activity into the largest instance. Decentralisation is important. Also I'm adding stuff that you guys suggest.

* for specialised memes, as the category is rather large:

• !science_memes@mander.xyz
• !reactionmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
• !mathmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
• !loweffortmemes@walledgarden.xyz
• !lotrmemes@midwest.social
• !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
• !flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
• !femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
• !fedimemes@feddit.uk

I see the liberals who got upset at bluesky being a "tankie echo chamber" are right at home on lemmy.world where they year for nothing but a Reddit 2.0 where 90% of the content is fed through a handful of professional content astroturfers or bot accounts linked to three-letter agencies.

I like the idea of growing non-ml community, however, I wish larger instances do not block ML. Otherwise, they would just move to lemmy.ee or lemmy.one, just like how they moved from hexbear and grad to ml.

It is great tankies got their own place where they can be happy, but I really don't want to interact with them. I am emotional about issues they engage in, and emotional me is usually not the nicest version of myself.

Social media is one of the few ways I can relax for couple hours per week outside of my job, and I really don't want my social media experience to go full investigative journalism.

ml makes sense on the fediverse. That's kind of the whole point. Same with Linux.

Is this why people keep making posts saying "Lemmy doesn't have enough content"? Are those people blocking instances and acting pikachu?

Yeah do this,
So after we can finally talk about mods on LW, being pro Israel and moderating comments against IDF.

Oh ? That will not happen ? 😱

On the upside, every time a .world community has these anti-federation wreckers cry and scream because they got banned for some repugnant views (but by design of federation they can just join a new site) I just block the whole community.

Might not be defederation but you're only turning these Comms into lame Reddit discourse farms that does the opposite of your evil plan.

I only follow some .ml communities for the only thing that instance is good for: Memes making fun of neoliberals