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Honestly, I appreciate that they do not attempt to manipulate the lemmyverse in a way that pushes their agenda. Let them have a default. It’s fine.
People should come into Lemmy with the understanding that it is all about multiple instances and choosing the best one for you. I don’t like who Reddit is run by, but I can do nothing about it from within their ecosystem. Lemmy is built in a way that you can avoid supporting people you don’t want to.
Though the fact they mix pleasure with business. Is a legitimate issue. Tying funding to their political fiefdom rightfully turns many off. Thankfully there are better options these days and no real reason to recommend Lemmy to anyone.
That's the problem, they do manipulate it. There was a thread a while back that showed how ml basically shows up as one of the random instances to join, like 95% of the time. So it's not actually random.
Yeah, I get this, but this is minor to me.
This is partly the responsibility of us Lemmy users to make sure it is known which instance to use. If we are letting the newbies go with a random instance, it’s probably not going to work out overall.
Not everyone is going to be informed about everything, they're joining because they hear it's good or don't join because they hear it's filled with authoritarian tankies. An instance shouldn't be anything more than a place to have a login and join the fediverse, it shouldn't be an echo chamber of authoritarian quackery.