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joined 3 years ago
No, not you, you're fine. This main person I had in mind was an active (self-admitted) troll who was literally incapable of discussion.
Honestly, while most people here have been alright, toxic newcomers have been a problem and I consider this place ill-prepared to handle them in a bigger wave than this one.
There has already been an observable culture shift, and some nasty screaming when some newcomers used to being a majority are challenged in their views and shocked to find a nontrivial pushback. And I feel that lemmy.ml will undergo a similar event to /r/antiwork if there isn't staff action taken , where the place loses all its values and just becomes a sanewashed recuperated place that feels cheated when its founders keep saying what they said from the start. People largely just don't read rules or sidebars, it seems, and realize lemmy.ml explicitly says it isn't a general unthemed instance for everyone. It's broad, but not 'reddit' broad, nor (pretending to be) politically neutral. Relevant source
Edit: I realize this may come off as "why aren't other people doing more things!". I realize the staff/devs are overloaded, I'm not blaming them to telling them to drop things. But I regret how few moderating/admin staff were recruited, and we're seeing how many communities were made 4 years ago and have no active moderation, nor culture to avoid this becoming 'reddit but here'.
Until the recent announcement, I had assumed the transition was in development hell, vaporware.
Great to see the forbidden history of old posts now back again, I also thought that would never happen. I've been on too many sites that had major data loss and all the posts died.
I know a few Friendica users have replied to my posts here.
The alternatives? haha I don't think you need to ask. Naturally I don't use them, but many were either born or populated by communities banned from reddit or similar for being hate communities. So in the unlikely case any actually weren't made with the intended target audience of toxic bigots, their userbase would have made it the case, just like Wolfballs.
PSA: Just want to give a heads up on what is about to come in the way of Lemmy users, a huge WARNING
Agreed, someone merely mentioning they liked a community here started to get a mini brigade (post got 4 quick downs, I'm honestly surprised it recovered and came out positive). Deleted reply was something like "Tankies and communists are cringe". Oh noes, M-Ls on a .ml domain?! How long until they notice the admin's Che profile pictures haha.
On one hand, a little co-ordination can go a long way against votebombing. On the other, I don't want to encourage straight-up brigading.
Is there an option to do All search results instead of local?
PSA: Just want to give a heads up on what is about to come in the way of Lemmy users, a huge WARNING
and what we should start thinking about is when the fascists will start opening their instances
What did we learn from Wolfballs? (and Bakchodi.... kind of. They don't federate or interact, nor have aspirations for it last I checked, merely being a we-got-booted-from-reddit bunker). Or from Gab and other Mastodon forks? Those are the case studies that come to mind.
We probably have a while, because reactionaries have their own reddit alternatives they've been spinning up since 2015 and earlier, like poast and the communities.win sites, so we probably have some time to think about it before they flood in again.
PSA: Just want to give a heads up on what is about to come in the way of Lemmy users, a huge WARNING
I suspect we must have had an influx from /r/privacy, who aren't particularly known for their privacy skills. It's like the broscience in physical fitness forums, amateurs teaching amateurs harmful habits with a mix of paranoia and corporate promotion in the mix.
It's going to be a long year...