it would be good to place a warning about all 3 of them
Where, and how? Seems tedious to write a satisfying message with "don't go there for politics, but it's probably the best place for FOSS content" that wouldn't confuse new joiners
Thanks, I just noticed lemm.ee, lemmy.zip, lemmy.ca etc. missing too, so definitely a 19.4 issue.
Also: What does any of this have to do with the moderation of lemmy.ml? I also don’t like their moderation but does that mean the instance and their communities shouldn’t be visible on the Lemmy Explorer? Who should decide which instance should or should not be included on the list? If you want to avoid the instance like I do you can just use the filter to remove lemmy.ml communities on the community browser of the Lemmy Explorer.
which at least one person said was removed deliberately so as not to overload them - so presumably by their own consent and likely even request
Presumably being the key word here. It's not clear based on this comment. It might have been a Lemmyverse decision to remove all of the .ml communities because they disagreed with the instance admins political stances.
The communities above are not managed by a project organisation (the only one I know if !librewolf@lemmy.ml), it's just that until last week, lemmy.ml was considered the go-to instance for FOSS and Linux.
Network effect is here, I know it first hand as I've been busy posting to !linux@programming.dev to try to offer people an alternative to the lemmy.ml community.
But I'm not planning to do that with the communities above, and same for the other FOSS communities, because I have other stuff to do
The vast majority of people going to those communities just want a place with enough people to answer their questions on the topic. They are not going to organize a migration, most of them are probably not even aware of the issues with lemmy.ml administration (seems like the post got removed from lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/comment/11606059)
I see where you come from, and I get it to an extend, but the vast majority of people are probably going to keep going to those communities without any change.
If someone wants to organize a migration of those above communities (the thread I linked above can be a starting point), feel free, but I wouldn't count on it. And without an active migration, those communities will stay the reference for those topics.
Explain the difference between the thing I linked, which I think I was told is the be all end all of Lemmy community searching, and this Fediverse Explorer?
They have a different way to present things. I prefer Fediverse Explorer (more information with the table format), but to each their own.
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Defederation is more about not being flooded with 1000x more users than the Fediverse currently has