this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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I'm glad that they're considering the Fediverse and Lemmy, but .ml is a really poor choice. Even if we disregard the rather... problematic administration, the instance is focused on FOSS and privacy.
...do we even have a music instance?
We REALLY should keep instance drama from newcomers, it turns them away faster than the lack of niche communities.
I'm mostly wishing that they hopped into a general purpose instance with no hidden rules. Don't think too hard on it.
From our part (we = older users), what we should do is what we already do: when talking about Lemmy we should recommend general purpose instances relatively free of such drama.
Tagging also @[email protected] .
This and the 'the server is for x topics'. Those just confuse people because if you don't understand federation, you think that means 'you can only talk about x here' which is not how it works at all, but it's very much how things are still being presented.
And for all the 'lemmy.ml bad', it's only bad if you're discussing one of their sacred cows (bears?), and otherwise perfectly reasonably usable, and getting more people on the fediverse is preferable to purity testing every community that tries to move off reddit.
[email protected] is the only one I know
I've got great news for you. You can create the same community on any instance you like.
I am aware of that. In fact myself did exactly that a year or so ago.
And the issue still stands. Someone just hopping into the Fediverse is likely to have incomplete information about it. If they have a poor experience in one instance they likely won't migrate to another instance, but instead blame the issue on "Lemmy" as a whole and go back to Reddit.