Fediverse memes

The problem is that the community you might want to be involved with might be under them. The mods do not represent a community, and may even work against it. This is sort of what happened in reddit's worldnews, where its mods have worked to make it be the neozionist hotspot it is today.

You end up doing pretty much what you do in reddit if you want to continue participating in a community, just creating another alt and try to post when the asshole mods are not active. Most people don't just move on to the discount alternative community with 90% less people participating in it.

The whole algorithm of what a community is really needs to be reworked, but most people on lemmy just seem to want discount reddit.

• !movies@lemm.ee
• !animation@lemm.ee
• !globalnews@lemmy.zip
• !showsandmovies@lemm.ee
• !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

Not sure what you mean, there are quite a few examples of communities being on other general instances than LW

with communities that are solely hosted on their instances.

This is the beauty of the Fediverse. If you don't like the way a community is being run, start a new one. It's a drum @Blaze@feddit.org has been beating for a while.

As a matter of principle we should be wary of centralisation and think carefully about where to start a community. I'd also suggest starting communities elsewhere if the main one is on lemmy.ml.

Hold up a sec, now you're just smearing people

It's just a mod in a COMMUNITY, lemmy.world has been pretty free-speech friendly

I would be more careful of BeeHaw & Sh.itjust.works & Lemmy.cafe, if you wanted to raise suspicions

Also, There's Mbin/Kbin & PieFed as alternatives to Lemmy

Feel free, it's quite easy with the export/import settings feature

I've found sh.itjust.works to be pretty decent so far.

Reddit was easier because everyone pigeonholed themselves in subs they could exist in with minimum conflict. You wanted to be there. Jumping into All accidentally instead of your subscribed Front Page was often a surprise dumpster fire.

Lemmy is small enough that most participants don’t just stick to their subscribed communities, they go to All because there’s more to see.

Reddit didn’t have entire sets of communities banded together equivalent to an instance operating top to bottom with parallel internal ideologies that fanned out over the rest of the site and commented on everything. /conservative and /the_donald mostly kept to their kind, unlike here where grad and ml comment on things outside of their instance, or .world will find themselves commenting on a post from those communities. So some tankie will delete your comments if you rub the community the wrong way.

Account Settings -> scroll down to Import/Export Settings, choose Export.

In the new account, repeat but choose Import.

Messages sent to your old account won't follow you, but your subscribed communities and block lists will be transferred this way.

Be warned that Lemmy.World has defederated from hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml but not all other instances have done so. These are known troll instances that, like the Alt-Right movement, offer an extreme and distorted view of their beliefs, but in this case are arguably worse bc they claim to be leftists so you may be more susceptible to falling into responding there, at which point you'll quickly discover why they are considered troll instances. Also, the instance block feature is misnamed and does not block actual instances, only communities located on them. When a mod tells you that they want to shoot and kill you and that they hope you die soon (sadly I am nowhere close to joking, that's a real event that actually happened, although actually that one was the tankie instance lemmy.ml in a small gaming community), you'll see the truth of it for yourself.

So pick a good instance that matches best what you want to see. lemm.ee if you want to see everything, lemmy.cafe or dubvee.org or quokk.au or PieFed if you don't, and so many in-between. https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list sorted by Active Monthly Users is a great website for that - e.g. perhaps you'll pick a region-specific one like Lemmy.ca for Canada or feddit.org for German + English language, or Discuss.Online or Lemmy.Today or midwest.social for USA, etc.

Alternately, I just block the !politics@lemmy.world and !news@lemmy.world communities and use others like !globalnews@lemmy.zip. But even so, it's good to spread around the Fediverse to take better advantage of decentralization.

Enjoy!:-)

Blaze goes over it elsewhere in this thread.