Very sad about this.
I’m a bit out of the loop, what does the ! Do/represent in front of a community?
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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In most Lemmy clients, the ! makes it a link, e.g. [email protected]. You can also do something similar with users, e.g. @aeiou_[email protected]. Note that these links stay on your native instance (e.g. if I linked to [email protected] it'd still open in lemmy.world for you), but Voyager's autocomplete makes a normal link (e.g. [email protected]) that is not instance-independent.
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What happened? .world is one of the 'bad guy' instances now?
It’s not that .world is bad per-se, it’s just that the idea behind lemmy is to spread things out across multiple federated instances, and everyone is essentially piling up there
Who would have thought the social species that has centralized in cities for tens of thousands of years would tend to centralize a digital space in the same way.
There's literally zero way anyone could have known
Yeah. I compare it to the gravitational attraction in space. Sooner or later, some of those little asteroids will become supergiant stars. It’s inevitable. Additionally, those complaining about .world’s popularity are welcome to create communities on all, if not most other instances-
They’re just not doing it.
I never liked .world due to how toxic their discord admins acted towards my suggestion of a matrix Server, only to then make a matrix Server a few weeks later.
Some communities are choosing to go to world kinda recently.
Personally kinda a nothing burger to me but its strange to move when the community which is solidified on one instance. Its fine to have multiple communities in multiple places...
World is the most vanilla of the servers in my experience.
Wait so all this drama is because. world has become too popular?
While other people have answered your direct question, I think it's important to think about it from a slightly more abstract POV as well.
A lot of people left reddit because they were unhappy with being forced off of 3rd party apps. Lemmy provides a fundamentally different (from reddit) mechanism to protect against that sort of centralised overreach: federation. It's also one of the unique qualities which differentiates us from reddit.
If any instance becomes the de facto standard, as lemmy.world is dangerously close to being, it compromises the strength of having federated communities.
It's in all users best interest to avoid centralisation tendencies, and most people would be better suited spending a little time to consider which instance they are best aligned with, and moving to that instance instead of just staying with the most popular instance.
I signed up with Blahaj. Zone when I came with the reddit exodus, but some time later I couldn't log in, couldn't reset my password, and couldn't make another because I already had an account.
.world let me sign up. And hasn't broken like blahaj. My heart is there, but I'm not willing to spend hours figuring how to make it work.
World has had some controversy and a lot of .world users have a very “Reddit” worldview - which kind of makes sense since many of them are Reddit refugees.
As a result there are some instances that have defederated with .world, and some call into question the moderation model used.
196 didn’t even ask their users though; they were just like “ok we’re gonna move the community and no one is allowed the old one” which is an arbitrary decision that goes against the design of the fediverse. So while .world isn’t ideal for many, the real point of contention is the fact that this was just done out of nowhere, with no input, and measures are being taken to prevent competition from a new team taking over at Blahaj.
If you don’t like how a community is treated on an instance and the admins won’t work with you, you’re free to go create your own community elsewhere, with blackjack and hookers. But, I don’t think it’s fair that you can just pull the ladder up behind you and slam the door. Shame on the 196 mods and on the blahaj admins both for allowing this situation, the worst possible outcome.
Yeah, I don't get it. I'm on world by happenstance but I like it when communities are federated.
more like “bad overcrowded space”
none of the admins are malicious outright but they are ill equipped to administer to such a volume of userspace
Oh, we're so, so bad. 😈
Explanation: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20952095
Hmm, that type of link doesn't work on Jerboa. :(
don’t use jerboa i guess
a normal Lemmy post link? Phew I'm remembering why I ditched Jerboa
hi spujb
hi kate
have u ever heard of this vaporeon cheese soda
i have one in my kitchen but im scared to try it
holy shit this is cursed
cheese AND vaporeon?
why didnt they just name new 196 is 197
is there a different pokemans you would find more acceptable
the last panel really nails it. They may be decent but damn was that a bad decision.
Comments are saying there are a lot of instances that could be used instead of LW, what would be some examples? I want to start a community eventually and if LW and Blahaj are not good places I would like to know what good alternatives would be
i like shitjustworks because the admins like to not interfere much with what the users do unless absolutely necessary and it has generally good vibes. TheDude who hosts the instance runs it on insanely overspecced hardware as well, so the interface is very responsive, the performance is excellent and the uptime is enterprise level.
if i were to name a linux distro with a similar vibe it would be debian, whereas LW is ubuntu and blahaj is the btw distribution
Thank you, appreciate the linux analogy too lmao
