My reason is that Reddit has opened a representative office in Turkey. This means the government can hand over IP addresses whenever it wants. In short, I came to Lemmy because freedom is gone. Fuck Reddit.
My reason is that Reddit has opened a representative office in Turkey. This means the government can hand over IP addresses whenever it wants. In short, I came to Lemmy because freedom is gone. Fuck Reddit.
He’s referring to the Lemmy devs and main Lemmy instance .ml. The admins and a large base on that instance are tankies, ie: they support fascist governments like Russia and China and frequently ban anyone who talks bad of either. It shows in the GitHub too.
I’ve had .ml blocked for sometime because it’s just not worth seeing all that bs. Shame that some major communities are only available on .ml tho just because it’s the original instance, but hey that’s what federation is for and about.
they have also infilitrated political memes community recently too, when before it was more “neutral”. since they dont arnt having the arguments or reactions they are getting from the rest of “left leaning” users from thier own echo chambers.
The good news is you can join Lemmy without any knowledge of .ml at all. I just Googled Lemmy, which led me to .world and it took me a few months before I started noticing a pattern with .ml users and then found out about their…situation.
I pretty much only still use Reddit to promote Lemmy and I just tell people to create an account on .world and just tell them it’s the main instance.