I think I’m going to migrate this community to Lemmy.world or Lemmy.zip. I love PieFed, but I’d rather wait until things are a little more stable before I consider PieFed.social.

I think world and zip are both fantastic options. Lemm.ee leaves me a little worried that any instance can shut down at any point. I’d prefer to pick whatever instance is least likely to shut down. I do think Lemmy.ml is pretty safe from shutdown, since it’s run by Lemmy maintainers, but I’m worried I’m reducing my audience since many people block ml.

Any thoughts?

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    The Lemmy.ml communities are still active, though. We don’t all need to consolidate into the biggest of similar communities, that goes against the fediverse structure.

    • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      My point was more that if an instance defederates lemmy.ml, the instance doesn’t lose much, there are alternatives to all the .ml communities (and that does indeed follow the fediverse structure).

        • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zip
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          1 month ago

          I don’t, I’m just saying that people are blocking .ml

          The only reason I have not blocked .ml is this community and Mlem are on here.

          https://piefed.social/comment/7712510

          I instantly blocked any .ml community. Fuck those tankies.

          https://piefed.social/comment/7601405

          I came here when the reddit api thing happened, and have since blocked .ml

          https://lemmy.world/comment/18190083

          Thanks for this, had fun reading it all. Good thing I switched to PieFed and blocked instances like .ml and hexbear.

          https://piefed.social/comment/6931899

          already blocked lemmy.ml 🥳

          https://sh.itjust.works/comment/19223080

          Most of us are completely defederated from .ml or blocking it.

          https://lemm.ee/comment/21076067

          Are those specific instances that are federated in (that can be separately blocked, like people do with .ml)?

          https://lemmy.world/comment/17560631

          I don’t remember why I blocked .ml because it was a long time ago but I’d guess I got tired of the users and many of the communities bleeding tankies into the rest of Lemmy.

          https://midwest.social/comment/17924609

          Well I blocked lemmy.ml, so no AMA for me :S

          https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18859301

          I can go on for a long time, but you get the idea.

          Actually I remember us having a similar conversation 10 months ago: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18211534/12491063

            • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zip
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              1 month ago

              I am listening to the feedback of the community.

              Feel free to share a similar number of comments where people say they block Lemmy.zip (I don’t care about SJW or LW)

              • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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                1 month ago

                I didn’t say Lemmy.zip, because I wasn’t talking about Lemmy.zip. I specifically mentioned Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works as those are 2 of the more right-wing instances, and you featured examples from them specifically, alongside piefed which has similar issues due to the devs baking in their ideology into instance defaults.

                Again, it seems like you’re just ideologically motivated to push an anti-Lemmy.ml agenda without outright saying it.

                • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zip
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                  1 month ago

                  alongside piefed which has similar issues due to the devs baking in their ideology into instance defaults.

                  That has been debunked several times, not sure why you are pushing an anti-Piefed agenda

                  You are in the first thread, I’m surprised I even have to point it out to you

                  Additional comment from the Piefed dev

                  PieFed dev here.
                  The screenshotted post is very misleading. As you’d expect from a hexbearian. It is not a baked-in ban.
                  Hexbear is mentioned in the PieFed source code, as an initial default value for the defederation list. That list is quite long and includes various instances that have been a source of trolls, CSAM and spam in the past (mostly Mastodon instances). As part of the normal setup process it is assumed that instance admins will review that list and alter it as they see fit. They can change it any time by going to instance.tld/admin/federation.

                  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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                    1 month ago

                    It wasn’t debunked, I literally stated it’s an instance default to block leftist instances like Hexbear, equating them to spam and CSAM even. I never said you can’t change it if you made a Piefed instance, I said it was an instance default.

                    Yes, I do oppose people that make it a default to block leftist instances and place them alongside spam and CSAM. If someone didn’t know what those instances were, they’d be likely to keep them blocked. It’s directly putting the Piefed dev’s anti-leftism into the code.

                    I fully admit to being opposed to people opposing leftists, I’m just not quite sure why you seem to be so cagey about having an anti-Lemmy.ml agenda. You can just say you do, or explain why you don’t actually, and I’m just misunderstanding you. Keeping it this cagey just makes you seem extremely suspicious and dishonest.