/r/thisneverhappened opens a Lemmy community
Posted in r/thisneverhappened by u/NatiRivers • 4 points and 3 comments
I'm glad that they're considering the Fediverse and Lemmy, but .ml is a really poor choice. Even if we disregard the rather... problematic administration, the instance is focused on FOSS and privacy.
...do we even have a music instance?
We REALLY should keep instance drama from newcomers, it turns them away faster than the lack of niche communities.
I'm mostly wishing that they hopped into a general purpose instance with no hidden rules. Don't think too hard on it.
From our part (we = older users), what we should do is what we already do: when talking about Lemmy we should recommend general purpose instances relatively free of such drama.
Tagging also @schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business .
This and the 'the server is for x topics'. Those just confuse people because if you don't understand federation, you think that means 'you can only talk about x here' which is not how it works at all, but it's very much how things are still being presented.
And for all the 'lemmy.ml bad', it's only bad if you're discussing one of their sacred cows (bears?), and otherwise perfectly reasonably usable, and getting more people on the fediverse is preferable to purity testing every community that tries to move off reddit.
!popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech is the only one I know
I've got great news for you. You can create the same community on any instance you like.
I’ve got great news for you. You can create the same community on any instance you like.
I am aware of that. In fact myself did exactly that a year or so ago.
And the issue still stands. Someone just hopping into the Fediverse is likely to have incomplete information about it. If they have a poor experience in one instance they likely won't migrate to another instance, but instead blame the issue on "Lemmy" as a whole and go back to Reddit.
There are some subs I really wish would just fuck off and not migrate
Edit: just realized how that could come across.
I'm not talking about this sub, it's fine afaik. I'm just dreading a wave of the snarky, shitty subs, and the thought came about because of the similarity in name to the "that happened" type of sub.
The worst parts of reddit moving here is not a good thing.
This is why "subscribed" (opt-in) and "block community" (opt-out) are a thing.
So what if some lower-value subreddits migrate here? I never browsed those subs on Reddit, and I don't have browse them here. What I care about is more activity in the topics I am interested in, and that only comes with more users.
It isn't about the community itself.
It's about the memory mentality behind the community.
Once you get communities built around snark, you have people looking for things to snark about.
When you have something like "that happened", or whatever the actual name was/is, you have people running around looking for chances to link to posts and comments so they can snark about it in the snark community
It's the exact opposite of what's good about lemmy. And it's at the core of why people that don't use reddit long before the api shit hate reddit. That's the single biggest complaint about redditors, that they're just shitty, snarky assholes. And it's fucking true. You can't go anywhere on reddit without some twat being snide
You can't opt out of assholes running around lemmy making it shitty, and that kind of community draws the assholes.