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The problem is that it’s “too complicated“ by presenting choices before knowing what they mean. It’s a decision tree without knowing the outcomes.
I’m new to Lemmy and it wasn’t as easy to sign up and use as Reddit or other social networks.
First I had to choose a server. To do that I had learn the consequences of choosing a server. Once I decided .ml had a sign up process where I had to be approved.
Then I wanted to choose a community, I think it’s called, and found there were multiple communities with the same name. Once again I had to make a choose without knowing the difference.
It all reminded me of the Paradox of Choice TED talk, https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_paradox_of_choice .
Finally I had to choose an app, as there is no official one. Now I’m in Mlem, but I don’t know if it’s better or worse than the others.
Choice is great but for easier onboarding a first stop for server and app would be great. Like browser, you’re given one when you start and if you want better, and you’re ready too look for one, you can go looking.
Anyone want to clue him in on who runs .ml? I feel like it's going to break his heart. But also, I kinda feel like he should know...
Please tell us! I personally have no idea
There’s some accusations of bias / pro CCP moderation on .ml
There’s some stuff about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36255366
But I haven’t directly experienced any of this myself so I can’t speak to the truth of it. Idk.
The ml stands for Marxism-Leninism. They are tankies.
ml is the Internet country code top-level domain(ccTLD) for Mali.
Well the folks over at .ml aren’t from Mali or host their server there.
This is completely untrue and I don't know why people keep repeating this.
Because people with the @lemmy.ml tag are constantly saying the dumbest tankie shit ever.
When I see someone say Ukraine in 2014 was a CIA backed coup against the democratically elected pro russian government - it comes from that server, every time
Lemmygrad is worse actually, but most instances defederate from them
Lemmy.ml used to be the biggest instance and absolutely full of pro-russia people and shit (Lemmy was in general, lemmygrad was the second biggest instance behind ml) so it wouldn't suprise me
The lead developers of Lemmy. They also develop the mobile Lemmy app Jerboa (personally, not my first choice).
What's wrong with Jerboa? Probably the only app I'd use for Lemmy.