They just had to one up the TikTok ban

Explanation: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20952095

hi spujb
- hi kate
Hmm, that type of link doesn't work on Jerboa. :(
- a normal Lemmy post link? Phew I'm remembering why I ditched Jerboa
- don’t use jerboa i guess

the last panel really nails it. They may be decent but damn was that a bad decision.

What happened? .world is one of the 'bad guy' instances now?

Some communities are choosing to go to world kinda recently.
Personally kinda a nothing burger to me but its strange to move when the community which is solidified on one instance. Its fine to have multiple communities in multiple places...
World is the most vanilla of the servers in my experience.
- Wait so all this drama is because. world has become too popular?
- Yeah, I don't get it. I'm on world by happenstance but I like it when communities are federated.
more like “bad overcrowded space”
none of the admins are malicious outright but they are ill equipped to administer to such a volume of userspace
It’s not that .world is bad per-se, it’s just that the idea behind lemmy is to spread things out across multiple federated instances, and everyone is essentially piling up there
- Who would have thought the social species that has centralized in cities for tens of thousands of years would tend to centralize a digital space in the same way.
  There's literally zero way anyone could have known
- Oh, we're so, so bad. 😈
I never liked .world due to how toxic their discord admins acted towards my suggestion of a matrix Server, only to then make a matrix Server a few weeks later.

Comments are saying there are a lot of instances that could be used instead of LW, what would be some examples? I want to start a community eventually and if LW and Blahaj are not good places I would like to know what good alternatives would be

i like shitjustworks because the admins like to not interfere much with what the users do unless absolutely necessary and it has generally good vibes. TheDude who hosts the instance runs it on insanely overspecced hardware as well, so the interface is very responsive, the performance is excellent and the uptime is enterprise level.
if i were to name a linux distro with a similar vibe it would be debian, whereas LW is ubuntu and blahaj is the btw distribution
- Thank you, appreciate the linux analogy too lmao

I’m a bit out of the loop, what does the ! Do/represent in front of a community?

In most Lemmy clients, the ! makes it a link, e.g. !196@lemmy.world. You can also do something similar with users, e.g. @aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world. Note that these links stay on your native instance (e.g. if I linked to !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone it'd still open in lemmy.world for you), but Voyager's autocomplete makes a normal link (e.g. !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone) that is not instance-independent.
- Thank you.

i agree but can we not use ableist memes for this please

i hear your concern, let me know if you can think of an alternative template i will put some thought in as well
- Maybe something like this:
- iirc there are many templates that follow the "something good, something better, something bad" format
  the one i can think of right now is this one:
- The one with the blue new age brain pics
This is so fucking dumb that people are being offended by this. Someone please help me understand why I think like this.
You are absolutely right but unfortunately people arent ready to head it yet.
does "blahaj" mean "no fun"?
- blahaj is shark plushie from ikea he is cute and soft and he loves hugs
Oh look, it’s the type of person that (I am purely speculating here) led to the exodus.
- no
- Oh look, a shit opinion/assumption.