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This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:

The discussions that have happened in various threads on Lemmy make it very clear that removing the communites before we announced our intent to remove them is not the level of transparency the community expects, and that as stewards of this community we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future as well as make sure that we get feedback around what the planned changes are, because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.

https://lemmy.world/post/3234363

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Did they really do it again, fucking hell. I came here for a better experience then Reddit and I feel like it’s starting to be a worse experience then Reddit. Transparency from admin my ass.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

...if your metric is admin transparency, how the hell do you figure that Lemmy is worse than Reddit...?

I feel like Lemmy falls short in a lot of ways but transparency is not one of them

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Feel free to join any other instance from that list: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances?tab=readme-ov-file

You can export and import your settings (including subscriptions and block lists) in two clicks from your account settings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah looks like I’ll have to.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Transparency is there in the sense that the modlog makes clear that a lemmy.world admin blocked the community. If it were Reddit we'd never know how, just that it is blocked.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

...you can just change instances. World did this before and I that's how I ended up on this account/instance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

You’ve hit the nail on the head. The Lemmy experience is quickly beginning to sour. They’ve received an influx of trolls and I’ve run into a few moderators now that seem to be taking harsh actions. Maybe Lemmy isn’t for me after all.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing is, this actually if anything proves the strength of the fediverse. Lemmy.world is not Lemmy and Lemmy is not the fediverse. Just find another instance that has not blocked the community yet and carry on with your day.

Lemmy.world have every right to curate the experience for their users as they see fit and/or feel comfortable carrying the risk for.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Hey it's a free world. You're welcome to migrate to a different instance. Heck why not run your own? That's the power of the fediverse. Or just head back to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Feel free to join any other instance from that list: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances?tab=readme-ov-file

You can export and import your settings (including subscriptions and block lists) in two clicks from your account settings.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try a better instance. Lemm.ee and Lemmy.ml are both run by competent techies and less knee jerk intolerance to anything other than the prevailing opinion there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

.ml is terrible. They actively ban people who aren't tankies. Reasonable discussion is not allowed there. If there is one instance that should be defederated it is .ml

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

>They actively ban people who aren’t tankies.

this seems unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen multiple posts from people who were banned from .ml and I looked at the removed comments and modlog myself, and people are being banned for even mild general discussion of topics debating the legitimacy of totalitarian communist policy.

https://lemmy.world/post/12875282

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

this doesn't show :

They actively ban people who aren’t tankies.

in fact, for evidence to the contrary, one of the biggest anarchism communities is on lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not a tankie, and I haven't been banned.

You sure you're not confused with lemmygrad?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes I know a lot of people on .ml are not tankies but .ml admin is repeatedly banning anti tankie discussion. See my other comment above. Look at the modlogs and you'll find people being banned for critical thinking. I blocked the instance because Lemmy <> lemmy.ml . The code can always be forked.

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