True

Don’t pretend to be surprised, this is Lemmy we’re talking about. It’s how they roll! Inclusion through exclusion or something.

I’ve come across him before, I think he moderates a right wing Lemmy community I’m a member of.

It’s the first one I always see whenever I look up lists of Fediverse alternatives and I always end up on the site. I use fedidb.org but I don’t use it to find Fediverse software.

Another good point 👍🏾

Because as the leading “Fediverse alternative” website, it essentially tells the viewer that Lemmy doesn’t exist, which I think does a disservice to prospective Fediverse users.

But yes good point, anyone can make an alternative website, I think right wing people made like a fuckgab.com site back in the day to recommend Gab alternatives on the Fediverse.

Generally fair point. My issue though is that most people will just go to this website and won’t consider other lists or websites, viewing this as the definitive list of Fediverse alternatives. Someone not putting someone’s software on their website isn’t technically censorship, true (this is the other coin of free speech), it does effectively censor Lemmy from the general conversation about Fediverse alternatives.

No, I don’t. If it’s about instances I’d understand it a bit more, even though I wouldn’t entirely agree with that either (I’m a free speech stan), but this is a page listing Fediverse alternative software. The software is fine and relatively untainted from the intentions of the Lemmy devs from what I can tell (although that was not originally the case). They deserved to be criticized, but not censored from Fediverse articles listing alternatives to big tech platforms.

I hate it when people try to gatekeep like this. I don’t need to be handheld. If there’s a Fediverse alternative to something and it mostly works, it should be on the website. Anything less is not useful at best.

Edit: I say this as someone who has historically criticized the behavior of the devs as well as multiple Lemmy communities BTW.

NGL I’d love it if that term was customizable by each server admin. Definitely funny, but not sure that it belongs in vanilla Lemmy.

What’s Newsgroups?

Why is this the case?

Nostr is fine but I find the frontends to be janky. Plus there is some community bleed due to the bridges that have been created between Nostr and the Fediverse.

Forum software is best for asking questions and I’d ask more here but nobody would even read those questions if I did lol

I love it though. I find it so much fun.

Although maybe I’d find forumming as fun as microblogging if the people here were nicer.

Having a larger and more culturally, ideologically and demographically diverse community plays HEAVILY into that side of the Fedivere’s favor. I enjoy my time over there far more than over here. People here are extremely touchy and culty, while people over there seem pretty chill. I also think the frontends over there have matured better than the forum software, although we’re starting to catch up, and third-party frontends here absolutely outclass the default.

Well that’s good

Why is it designed this way? Someone could upload illegal materials for example and that content still remains on the server. Wouldn’t that be a huge liability for instance hosters?

I used to use that but it makes it harder to find posts from smaller communities because they get less attention.

I use “Hot”, it’s nice.

Eh, I’ve praised aspects of Lemmy on the microblogging side of the Fediverse, I’m quite sure