People are recommending for the local feed. I mostly changed for the experience. My instance has downvotes disabled, which IMO is a more pleasant experience as a casual user. And the instance mods have a more no-nonsense approach to moderation. And since I prefer quality over quantity, it’s a good thing.
One way to choose an instance might be to generally think of what instance the people and communities you like tend to be on? (obviously most ppl and comms are on a couple big instances, but apart from that.)
Also defederations are a huge part of the experience.
Hexbear users historically were allowed to troll a good portion of the Threadiverse - like Discuss.Online and StarTrek.website both have defederated from it now but a year ago had not done so yet, while others such as lemm.ee and mander.xyz still have not done so (and likely never will).
And lemmy.ml mods are free to say that they want to kill you without repercussions, and likewise many other ml users are responsible for the most bat shit insane comments that I’ve seen across the Fediverse, after discounting hexbear.net (several users on ml freely admit to having switched to their alt there after Hexbear was banned, i.e. they engage in ban evasion tactics, again without any repercussions).
And there’s lemmygrad.ml too. I almost left the Threadiverse entirely after commenting there and Hexbear.net and replies kept flooding my inbox for WEEKS and WEEKS, long past when I wanted to stop the conversation. In fairness, that’s often what people inside of those communities do on purpose for fun, so it’s less that I’m calling that aspect “bad” and more that it doesn’t fit in so well with the rest of the Threadiverse, and in particular with the rules stated on sites such as Discuss.Online.
The Federation model can get tricky, especially when the tools are lacking to describe what is going on at any given moment - like “this community is for fun, but this other community has left fun behind, prepare to be mocked for values you were taught as a child in Western society and haven’t yet questioned - surely you enjoy being ridiculed for things beyond your control, r-r-right!?”
We need to do better, by providing better tools, or else the Federation model will fail. e.g. PieFed shows the community side-bar text below each and every post, so that e.g. if you were to wander into [email protected] via a post on All, you would be able to see what you are walking into.
The Lemmy developers are also the admins of that instance, so they choose to put release announcements into communities on it.
something about the list of communities that exist (probably new ones?) also comes from that instance.
Both of these have alternatives available, but I guess you can’t really argue about conflicts of interest when Lemmy is their software, that we (freeloaders) choose to use. If we want something different, we would need to build it (as both PieFed and Mbin have done:-).
People are recommending for the local feed. I mostly changed for the experience. My instance has downvotes disabled, which IMO is a more pleasant experience as a casual user. And the instance mods have a more no-nonsense approach to moderation. And since I prefer quality over quantity, it’s a good thing.
One way to choose an instance might be to generally think of what instance the people and communities you like tend to be on? (obviously most ppl and comms are on a couple big instances, but apart from that.)
Also defederations are a huge part of the experience.
Hexbear users historically were allowed to troll a good portion of the Threadiverse - like Discuss.Online and StarTrek.website both have defederated from it now but a year ago had not done so yet, while others such as lemm.ee and mander.xyz still have not done so (and likely never will).
And lemmy.ml mods are free to say that they want to kill you without repercussions, and likewise many other ml users are responsible for the most bat shit insane comments that I’ve seen across the Fediverse, after discounting hexbear.net (several users on ml freely admit to having switched to their alt there after Hexbear was banned, i.e. they engage in ban evasion tactics, again without any repercussions).
And there’s lemmygrad.ml too. I almost left the Threadiverse entirely after commenting there and Hexbear.net and replies kept flooding my inbox for WEEKS and WEEKS, long past when I wanted to stop the conversation. In fairness, that’s often what people inside of those communities do on purpose for fun, so it’s less that I’m calling that aspect “bad” and more that it doesn’t fit in so well with the rest of the Threadiverse, and in particular with the rules stated on sites such as Discuss.Online.
The Federation model can get tricky, especially when the tools are lacking to describe what is going on at any given moment - like “this community is for fun, but this other community has left fun behind, prepare to be mocked for values you were taught as a child in Western society and haven’t yet questioned - surely you enjoy being ridiculed for things beyond your control, r-r-right!?”
We need to do better, by providing better tools, or else the Federation model will fail. e.g. PieFed shows the community side-bar text below each and every post, so that e.g. if you were to wander into [email protected] via a post on All, you would be able to see what you are walking into.
Yeah. I’m really suprised how uncommon it is to defed lemmy.ml.
The Lemmy developers are also the admins of that instance, so they choose to put release announcements into communities on it.
something about the list of communities that exist (probably new ones?) also comes from that instance.
Both of these have alternatives available, but I guess you can’t really argue about conflicts of interest when Lemmy is their software, that we (freeloaders) choose to use. If we want something different, we would need to build it (as both PieFed and Mbin have done:-).