Weirdly I can't see any of the comments on that post

Block the instance on your own client, not all of us are as closed minded as you are.

@Psythik just because you personally don't like them? Or what's the reason?

@MrKaplan

It's been far better the past few days without them.

Honestly some of the discussions I have with lemmy.ml people don't make sense in any capacity

"Echo chamber" is often used as a criticism on the internet. But in real life, when you make friends, it's with like-minded people, right? So maybe it makes sense to seek online spaces with like-minded people, rather than spaces with people of various views attacking and insulting each other.

True. People out here fighting leftists like their life depends on it

The fact of a community being big doesn't mean that it is good.

!linux@programming.dev is a nice alternative

!programmer_humor@programming.dev

largest Linux community

oh no, where will we get posts about windows being bad

I think things like this can be helpful at curbing network effect. Which can only be really curbed by force. Beehaw used to have quite strong network effect in some communities too in the earlier days, but now, they have much less of a vice, and are actually much quieter than they were before.

Might be a good idea to check out !de_ml@lemmy.blahaj.zone in these trying times. In case it's a while before the issue is fixed.

In which case, thank you.

No one said it was a global variable. You can hardly blame the user for poor documentation.

Yeah, just avoid politics there and it's fine. We all know about their zeal so it's pointless to discuss it.

Yes. Because it isn't for FOSS enthusiasts.. They use the .ml specifically to refer to an oppressive, violent, ignorant political ideology. Every bit as bad as capitalism. That's a threat to anyone that disagrees with them left or right.

A lot of older established communities are there by the circumstance of it being the oldest server. And not by any other virtue. In fact, there are a number like the KDE project that have their own instance. Completely detached from political ideology. Which is a wise decision. A lot of official projects don't want to be associated with the regular hypocritical and disparaging remarks of the admin staff there

I've been a foss enthusiast since the late 80s early 90s when I was in college. Used Linux since 94. Dabbled in BSD a bit before. Am solidly towards the anarchist left. And I block ML on principle alone. Authoritarians aren't allies. And access to open source communities shouldn't hinge on not accidentally crossing the fragile and hypocritical political ideologies of such groups. No place or group is perfect. But few are so flawed out of the gate.

https://feddit.nl/post/16246531

Russians

We'd lose the .ml version of that content.

But I thought the whole point of federation was that if mods, or communities become problematic, you could always create your own. Then all the non-problematic people will move to that.

Is that not the very foundation of the concept of the fediverse?

We would adapt, just like when Beehaw was a significant amount of the userbase on Lemmy and they cut us and sh.itjust.works off, we adapted and they got smaller. Lemmy.world is a bigger server than lemmy.ml. Only reason their communities are still so big is network effect. Which would be curbed by them being cut off. As I've said already, network effect is curbed by force, taking away a choice, not providing 7 more choices while leaving the original.

I've read enough posts over at /r/sysadmin, it is always DNS.

I'm sorry I didn't see this, I mean I don't have much info for you, but basically I have noticed on lemmy.world posts if say I post on it with my alt I cannot see those posts even though I can see my lemmy.world account with my alt and all the comments it makes.

I have tested this with a few accounts and it seems to be consistent