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[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 1 points 2 years ago

Can y'all stop using this goblin as the thumbnail? Thanks

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

How about Lemmy.World?

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago
[–] lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.ml is also the instance made by the lemmy devs

[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is not particularly surprising. Lemmy was started as an anti-corporate project by leftists after /r/chapotraphouse got quarantined and later banned (subreddit for the most popular podcast and most donated patreon at the time), with the explicit goal of preventing corporate control from being able to silence leftists when they're blasting off. CTH was skyrocketing in subscribers at the time it was quarantined on August 8th 2019, and when even quarantining didn't stop its growth or slow down its activity afterwards Reddit pulled the plug under the excuse it promoted violence, but the only particularly edgy thing ever said there was "slave owners should be killed" and support for John Brown. This evolved post-ban into the assessment that Spez banned it because he wants to own slaves.

When that happened there was a massive shift in the leftist parts of reddit as we very quickly realised we'd be targeted if reddit ever deemed us to be too successful, and projects like Lemmy began in reaction. CTH's community in fact moved to Lemmy 3 years ago, and resides on Hexbear.net but has not yet joined the rest of federated lemmy due to technical issues (it used to be a fork with a different front end).

Given lemmy's specific anti-corporate origins seeing Lemmy.ml do this should surprise nobody. It's the correct move anyway.

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Always love to hear the deep lore. Lemmy’s early development makes a lot more sense now. Good on them(you) to leave everything open and learn from Reddit’s mistakes.

Still, free and open has a limit. No Facebook and no Nazis. That’s just common sense everyone used to have.

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Fantastic news! Can we please do the same on lemmy.world? Please?

[–] KeefChief13@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Lemmy.world needs to follow

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, the problem here as I see it is that just the same as Twitter, this social media service is still owned by a single owner corporation who is running the service for a profit and they will eventually sell user data or bastardize the service. Ive been on the internet for 30 years, social media and websites come and go and so does their popularity.

Which raises another point, how are the bills being paid for with any of these services, including lemmy? TAANSTAFL.

Lemmy instances are mostly paid through donations.

although there might be some exeptions.

[–] cthellis@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Generally disagree. If you want the Fediverse to become a large open standard, if not the largest, then this is going to just be a matter of course. Companies will seek to commodify all their offerings, whether they use open standards or not. Many exist that commodify on top of open-source software and open standards. The important part is to ACHEIVE the open standard to begin with, and I think it's short-sighted to pre-emptively block something that could be a strong item down that path, and before it might show itself to be more harmful towards that goal.

It can always be blocked later, situation-depending.

The problem is that we alredy had a similar problem with XMPP and google Talk.

Where gooogle took over with google talk.

You can read more about it here.

https://lemmy.world/post/1121594