I might get hate because of my instance here, but in an attempt to better understand Lemmy I’m wondering if some of you can shed a light on why you chose this instance, what’s great about it, what could be better, is the instance rivalries something that affects your use of the platform or is it just background noise?

I’m not trying to start a fight or mud slinging, it would be good if several people could say their piece and nobody shame or attack them for it no matter how much you disagree.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    It’s a Lemmy server where you can talk about any brand of cat food that interests you. I love the smell of freedom in the morning.

  • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
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    23 days ago

    it’s an instance that respects, upfronts, and promotes the anti imperialist, anti colonial, and anti capitalist voices of the global south. this i why most people (and by people i mean westerners or west aligned) get triggered by some of our administration policies, because it challenges the status quo of sillicon valley’s morals.

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I don’t know what my instance is and have no thoughts on it. It was just a means to access. I have no idea or care of the working mechanisms or rivalries or federation or anything. I just want to look at memes and post photos. Anything else is extraneous.

    • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      20 days ago

      I think they managed to anger 3 different instances at the same time. If they weren’t doing such terrible comments would almost be impressive

  • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    22 days ago

    After witnessing the downfall of Reddit, both because of enshittification and in the overall discourse, it felt silly to jump to another neoliberal community. I feel the same way about Blue Sky.

    I don’t care about instance rivalries at all. Reddit refugees fleeing the dismal quagmire that is the inevitable result of capitalist social media and going to the place MLs created as a direct response to those conditions, then criticizing MLs, is kind of amusing but that’s all. I created a .world account first because I didn’t know the lay of the land then realized I didn’'t really feel like reading those same jokes, quips, puns, and slogans ad nauseum. I’m glad the architecture of lemmy allows me to choose a refuge where I don’t feel crazy. I regret it took me so long to find my people.

    I appreciate you coming here and asking this question.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      22 days ago

      I didn’'t really feel like reading those same jokes, quips, puns, and slogans ad nauseum.

      this begs the question of why the neoliberals are here at all.

      reddit/facebook/instagram/etc. will always have better bread and circuses so expecting to get it on lemmy is a lost cause to begin with and that lacking quality – combined with efforts to minimize leftist narratives like piefed and tesseract – means that they won’t stay here for long.

      so what are they looking for when the come here when they continue to insist on implementing the same enshitification that made reddit so insufferable?

      • criscodisco@lemmy.ml
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        22 days ago

        I’m now seeing Harris apologia and people throwing Palestine and trans people under the bus at over at .world and its getting upvoted.

  • multifariace@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    I still don’t understand what that means. I don’t know what instance/s I use. I don’t know how to use a different one. I don’t know how to properly search across instances. I barely understand that an instance means something technical with accessing stuff.

  • sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I like the tech focus and how the politics are less impulse-based and seem more rooted in reality and people are more willing to deviate from the crowd. Also like that it doesn’t block Hexbear/Lemmygrad, piracy communities, Tor users, etc.

  • 挂路灯人@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    One of the few places on the English language side of the internet where racial abuse against not sufficiently self hating Chinese people isn’t normalised.

  • calmblue75@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    22 days ago

    It’s a cool place where mods don’t take bullshit, misinfo and bigotry are removed. There is this removing slurs from comments (based on a hardcoded list, I guess?) which is good since I don’t get that triggered like when I used to browse reddit. People generally treat users like they are people.

  • TiredTiger@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    I chose .ml specifically because I wanted to be on a Marxist-Leninist instance, because .ml is maintained by Lemmy’s developers, and because most instances aren’t defederated from it so I have access to whatever content I wish to see. I actually just browse local 99% of the time since I find the content here plenty engaging on its own. It reminds me of the old forum days, before modern social media watered everything down. I particularly value being more exposed here to the perspectives of the global south, and non-USians generally. USians aren’t a majority of the world, so we shouldn’t expect our views to be normative.