Waaaait a minute, I just posted this on a different instance, I thought up that title with my own brain & typed it with my own thumbs, and got 3 likes and zero comments 🤔 https://beehaw.org/post/27275820
Thank you. I read the info you provided, and I have a question: WTF is a “tankie?”
Anyway when I posted that cute meme, I had to choose a community from a drop-down list and I chose the first one that looked relevant, so I guess I chose WRONGLY, now I have to make a conscious effort to avoid .ml instances now?
So I just went through my list of subscriptions and blocked/unsubscribed from everything ending in .ml and there were six of them! They had some good communities! 😢 Anything I can replace them with? I’ve already forgotten what they were and it’s too late because I deleted them, but two communities I will miss are Venting, and F-droid.
You may want to check out Beehaw’s Humor community that welcomes memes, Chat (where you’re welcome to vent,) and the FOSS/open source one, where F-Droid talk is very welcome.
Thank you, and do you wanna hear something funny? When I was about to say “thank you,” my brain decided to say it in Russian for some reason and thought it would be cute to tell you “спасйбо” but then I quickly remembered the entirety of this discussion thread, and apparently Russia bad right now.
You’re very welcome! :) That is funny, my brain does stuff like that, too. You can talk to me in whatever language you want (although I’ll have to run it through a translator haha.) I dislike the government of Russia for hurting people, but I’ve got no beef with people who speak the language (or who are Russian,) ya know? That wouldn’t be fair or right!
I hope you have a great rest of your day/night, fellow Beehaw user! :D
Lemmy ml is under heavy boycott and I run an effort to crosspost all good content from them to the closest relevant comm, see the spoiler for more
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms.
And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.
I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
Alright well I’m a real human who put a little bit of excitement & effort into this post, so the least you could do is acknowledge the usernames of people you’re stealing posts from.
I know it’s not OC but my title sure was! I told you I thought of that title with my own brain and typed it with my own thumbs.
It felt mildly sickening to be casually scrolling through Lemmy and finding someone else posted the same exact thing I’d just posted, and you got more engagement than I did! Mildly sickening.
Well, that’s a new one, I don’t really consider titles OC unless you put in some sort of personal story or something like say of your title was “This is so my [child]!”, then I change it to something generic
Sorry if it made you sick, however, it does serve as a decent demonstration that despite being “bigger” by subscriber count the actual activity of the “big” ml comm is MUCH lower. This comm doesn’t even have a third of the subscriber count, but most crossposts here average better engagement than .ml
Waaaait a minute, I just posted this on a different instance, I thought up that title with my own brain & typed it with my own thumbs, and got 3 likes and zero comments 🤔 https://beehaw.org/post/27275820
I think it is because you posted it to .ml and this account that reposted it is doing so on purpose. You may want to take a look at this thread.
https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/7039
Thank you. I read the info you provided, and I have a question: WTF is a “tankie?”
Anyway when I posted that cute meme, I had to choose a community from a drop-down list and I chose the first one that looked relevant, so I guess I chose WRONGLY, now I have to make a conscious effort to avoid .ml instances now?
So I just went through my list of subscriptions and blocked/unsubscribed from everything ending in .ml and there were six of them! They had some good communities! 😢 Anything I can replace them with? I’ve already forgotten what they were and it’s too late because I deleted them, but two communities I will miss are Venting, and F-droid.
You may want to check out Beehaw’s Humor community that welcomes memes, Chat (where you’re welcome to vent,) and the FOSS/open source one, where F-Droid talk is very welcome.
Thank you, and do you wanna hear something funny? When I was about to say “thank you,” my brain decided to say it in Russian for some reason and thought it would be cute to tell you “спасйбо” but then I quickly remembered the entirety of this discussion thread, and apparently Russia bad right now.
You’re very welcome! :) That is funny, my brain does stuff like that, too. You can talk to me in whatever language you want (although I’ll have to run it through a translator haha.) I dislike the government of Russia for hurting people, but I’ve got no beef with people who speak the language (or who are Russian,) ya know? That wouldn’t be fair or right!
I hope you have a great rest of your day/night, fellow Beehaw user! :D
Lemmy ml is under heavy boycott and I run an effort to crosspost all good content from them to the closest relevant comm, see the spoiler for more
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
Alright well I’m a real human who put a little bit of excitement & effort into this post, so the least you could do is acknowledge the usernames of people you’re stealing posts from.
They’re crossposted and you can’t steal memes anyways.
I do tag peoples usernames when it’s OC, this however is not OC
https://www.boredpanda.com/self-deprecating-memes-personally-attacked/ see #16
I know it’s not OC but my title sure was! I told you I thought of that title with my own brain and typed it with my own thumbs.
It felt mildly sickening to be casually scrolling through Lemmy and finding someone else posted the same exact thing I’d just posted, and you got more engagement than I did! Mildly sickening.
Well, that’s a new one, I don’t really consider titles OC unless you put in some sort of personal story or something like say of your title was “This is so my [child]!”, then I change it to something generic
Sorry if it made you sick, however, it does serve as a decent demonstration that despite being “bigger” by subscriber count the actual activity of the “big” ml comm is MUCH lower. This comm doesn’t even have a third of the subscriber count, but most crossposts here average better engagement than .ml
Btw, I saw your other comment, there’s !fdroid@lemdro.id and !rant@lemmy.sdf.org and www.lemmyverse.net is a great resource for comm discovery
Ooh thanks for the other community suggestions 😃