Local communities are an interesting concept, though I am concerned about unintended side effects. I have noticed many times that people from other instances chime in to meta-communities to provide some alternative viewpoints and context when instances are discussing interactions with the rest of the network. I worry that some will become too isolated/sheltered. But I suppose, in the end, that’s ultimately up to the individual instances to decide.
Probably interesting for communities where people can express themselves a bit more openly. I'm very aware to not doxx myself knowing that everyone and their grandma can run an instance and parse all of my comments
I make a distinction between software development and server administration and moderation.
I have always been promoting lemmy as a platform, posting to plenty of communities, organizing some of them.
The management of the Lemmy.ml is something else, but isn't the idea of a federated network to be able to disagree on server management and still be connected?
And I've always been opposed to defederation from Lemmy.ml. If you are referring to the posts I created in the last few days about alternatives to Lemmy.ml communities, they were exactly that, alternatives. People have to freedom to use which ones they prefer.
Also, the sysadmin of my instance, Reddthat, was mentioned, so it was a good opportunity to shout out to them.
Special thanks goes to Radically Open Security, @sleepless and @matc-pub for their work on lemmy-ui and lemmy-ui-leptos, @dullbananas for their help cleaning up the back-end, DB, and reviewing PRs, @phiresky for federation work, @MV-GH for their work on Jerboa and API suggestions, @asonix for developing pictrs, @ticoombs and @codyro for helping maintain lemmy-ansible, @kroese, @povoq, @flamingo-cant-draw, @aeharding, @Nothing4U, @db0, @MrKaplan, for helping with issues and troubleshooting, and too many more to count.
You can migrate your subscriptions in the settings (import / export as a JSON file, easier to do on a computer).
You would lose your comments and posts history, but you can refer to the old account on your new account so that people curious would know it's you. Also, if you keep the same name and avatar, most of the people wouldn't notice.
Especially the derogatory use of the word „tankie“ is unacceptable imo.
Not a fan either.
I‘d prefer if people started debates and tried to find common ground instead. For the reason of decentralization I would like less popular „versions“ of the communities to thrive.
Are you on !fedigrow@lemm.ee? That's a topic we discuss quite often there
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Probably interesting for communities where people can express themselves a bit more openly. I'm very aware to not doxx myself knowing that everyone and their grandma can run an instance and parse all of my comments
Also safer spaces for groups targeted by bigots