silly judgemental post not meant to be taken too seriously (unless you agree with me in which case im dead serious)
What’s wrong with world? (serious question) I know that ml has tankies and such but I’ve never heard of issues with world.
Frankly, it’s just way too big, which can make performance bad, makes it a target for attacks and due to the huge user base it’s harder to upgrade. That’s why .world is still on 0.18.5 while most of lemmy is at 0.19.3.
Also, from what I’ve seen the admins can get a bit powertrippy.
It’s got a strong neoliberal bias. In my experience, the users on .world are fairly diverse in opinions and philosophy, but the mods tend to be pro-status quo centrists – with exceptions, of course.
I recall a mod on their politics community who posted a mod-flaired comment informing us that “the United States is not a racist nation.”
Some of their policies seem questionable as well, such as blocking piracy communities or disallowing archived versions of paywalled articles. It feels like the sort of thing reddit would have done to appease advertisers.
I’ll admit I’m biased because I haven’t had the greatest experience with some specific .world mods, one in particular who is fond of calling people “morons” for criticizing Biden. To be fair, I’ve seen another more rational mod remove that particular mod’s comments, but it seems to keep happening anyway.
Let’s not forget the people who were just straight up banned when they expressed their disapproval of banning the pirate communities.
You’re definitely right, a lot of the time this place feels like Reddit lite
disallowing archived versions of paywalled articles
Really? I can’t stand paywalled articles especially on sites where sharing the article (here, on Lemmy) is the main point of it all.
I always link to an archive.ph or archive.org version because not only does it help bypass all that crap but it also preserves it for future generations.
This platform is for all of us, not just those who can afford WaPo or The New York Times subscriptions.
My comment quoting the Mueller report got deleted from .world because I was spreading “mis information”.
I recall a mod on their politics community who posted a mod-flaired comment informing us that “the United States is not a racist nation.”
To be fair, there is no option to comment not flaired as a mod once you become one. Which honestly seems like an oversight. I’m quite active so I’ve volunteered to mod some big communities that have asked since I’m more likely to see a report but I dislike that now it’s as though I can’t properly participate as just a normal user.
Oh I wasn’t aware of this. Thanks for explaining.
Even so, that was quite the hot take even for someone to make as a regular user.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveComment
As of writing this comment, one of the most recent reasons a mod has removed a comment was: reason: Comm rule 3: Claims that Ukraine does not have a Nazi problem
Hmm looked my username up there to see what reasoning was given for why i was banned from world news after calling out russian propaganda.
Says, i broke lemmy.ml’s rule 2. But i thought i was banned from world news, which itself was hosted on lemmy.world. like either way, nothing of value was lost to me, just confused about which shithole im banned from commenting in. Is it all of lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, or just the world news sub?
E: grammar und clarity
One time they removed their rules against racism and banned anyone who pointed it out. They eventually put in some new rules against racism, so it was probably an honest mistake. But when you ban people for being antiracists out of defensiveness and pride, you’re a racist.
What are some alternatives people suggest?
https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
This page lists all instances but also recommends some random ones with medium userbase and high uptimes. The idea of Lemmy is that users are spread out. Lemmy.world is massively inflated with users.
I’m quite fond of this one. Admin is easily reachable and reasonable IME.
yeah and we get to have profile pics and pictures in comments, which isn’t on instances like lemm.ee
I have embedded photos though. I’ve used them from time to time. Dunno about profile pics
You can have pictures in comments, just not hosted on lemm.ee. Proof:
Image uploads have always been size-limited on lemm.ee because sunaurus anticipated it becoming an issue, if you were planning on using lemm.ee as an image host you were on the wrong instance in the first place when he shut uploading down completely. What you do get with lemm.ee is everything else being snappy.
I like sh.itjust.works because it has the best name. Also the admins seem cool.
All i’m sayin is lemmy world doesn’t need any more users it’s aldready too big
Look at them, they come to this place when they know they are not pure. Lemmings use the instances, but they are mere trespassers. Only I, Vor, know the true power of the Fediverse. I was cut in half, destroyed, but through the dormi.zone, the shitposts called to me.
Wow, I think that’s the first fedi instance I’ve ever seen that’s more or less dedicated to a single video game. Very cool.
Man, I forgot about pricefield.org but it’s still the cutest looking instance out there
