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As someone brand new to Lemmy I'm now learning a lot of horrible new info on myself based on arbitrarily signing up for a random instance.
I didn't realize I was supposed to psychically know about lemmy lore before ever using it.
Please understand that plenty of us do not judge people based on instance at all. I genuinely don't care.
didn't you know that signing up for an instance is actually evidence of thoughtcrime?
FWIW, I left .ml after about a year (and around a month ago) because there were just enough threads shit flinging and just enough posts like below, and just enough people who would dismiss any argument based on seeing .ml that it annoyed the shit out of me.
Not for how anyone at .ml ever treated me. (And FTR I'm not a communist)
So I'd say how much you worry about it is up to you, but switching instances is also pretty easy.
there's always going to be this stigma against .ml users due to how the .ml instance was formed and how the general userbase behaves.
the good news is that you are always free to switch instances if you find out that you dislike the instance you are currently on. while your posts, comments, and "karma" won't transfer, you can transfer everything else such as the communities you follow, your settings, and your blocklist.
Karma? I've been on lemmy for 9 months and I don't know that there is karma? Pls tell me mine
I know that there is a number that's visible on kbin called "reputation", I think it works like karma, but I'm not sure. Yours is 2286: https://kbin.earth/u/@[email protected]/reputation/threads
Don't worry much about your instance. .ml is fine, but Lemmygrad.ml in particular is a very strange place. Have a look if you want to read what non-religious people hostile to the United States/West think. Sometimes they make good points but they're such fundamentalist assholes about everything.
tbf, if you're not hostile to the US at this point, I'd seriously question your sanity. You don't need to be a tankie for that.
Yeah even the biggest us global order defender libs have given up on the us.
Just drop them like it's hot, lose nothing of value. There is probably an instance local to your nation or you can use .world which is a generic nonspecific Lemmy except they defederate from Hexbear and Lemmygrad because those instances spam so much bot content trying to convince users to off their families and neighbors.
You're not expected to know.
Just sign up somewhere else.
All accounts are throw away.
Most of us don’t judge users but we are internally vocal about our own social challenges.
.ml is a big instances and people coming from the old web find such attractive, it feels like “the official one” we are well aware.
The have been attempts to advertise avoiding those but were not exactly a well coordinated organization.
Regardless the ideology of .ml and others big instances pose a problem in centralized power. Lemmy works best as many tiny servers organically building a network of content and ideas.
All of Lemmy is accessible as long as your instance is federated (almost all) however some may defederate from those problematic big ones, limiting the posts you can see.
You wont lose much by changing instance right now. There is no karma or rewards associated with your account. You can also make multiple on different instances with the same user name so you have a backup if your main instance goes down.
it's not centralized, .world is considerably bigger and way more conservative, like it even has a splinter /c/196 populated with everyone who thought neo pronouns and basic levels of respect were too hard
It's funny that you still feel the need to spread this slander. Almost like you're still upset that you spent months defending a blatant troll using an old conservative canard.
it's not that hard to have basic levels of respect for people using neo pronouns, and if they're trolling then let them slip up and get banned for that.
it's just an observed pattern of behavior that .world has a lot of cis people who misgender people when they disagree with them like it's an argument
Okay? Where does that play into your slander about the .world 196 being filled with people who don't respect neopronouns?
So now it's not the .world 196, it's .world in general.
there was a pretty clear reason they left and went to .world, they fit the culture better there
I don't even use /196 I was just watching from the sidelines for that one lol
So first it was you asserting that .world 196 doesn't respect neopronouns, then it turned into .world has a tendency to have people who don't respect neopronouns, and now it's "I have a vibe that 196 doesn't respect pronouns, but I don't actually use 196".
btw, are you still banned from the 196 on Blahaj? Of course, you don't use it. :)
I said that was the reason they left, because it was a huge debacle that nobody could miss when it happened.
I'm the esl person here, is reading what I'm saying instead of of making up shit really that difficult?
You didn't miss it, but apparently, you were completely incapable of parsing what was going on. Which is unsurprising coming from someone who bootlicks dictators and thinks that's leftism. :)
lmao, coming from someone who's claiming the 196 move was over .world not respecting neopronouns, when respecting neopronouns is still a rule on the .world 196 and has been since day 1 of the move.
maybe you should tell me what your narrative is then
Exactly what the 196 mods said, if you'd bothered to read literally any of the stickied posts that came up at the time. There was disagreement with the admins over how to moderate 196, especially regarding ban lengths and presumption of good faith.
But of course, you didn't read any of it. You made up a narrative that you suited your pre-existing biases, and proceed to spread it even though, but your own admission, you didn't follow the issue - apparently at all. Of course, you also claimed that you don't use 196 despite having been banned from 196, so maybe you aren't the most reliable narrator. :)
I was banned from blahaj 196 for suggesting that they have a healthy relationship with other people IRL instead of behaving terminally online, yes
you should re-block me your posts are awful
Just remember that a lot of people on here also used to be the most annoying redditors. Their opinions are worthless.