Hi to anyone who reads this.
I’ve been considering moving the community for a while whilst I’m still the only main poster so as to try and dilute communities and make Lemmy in general less centralised due to how many communities are hosted by .world. The longer I waited to do this the harder it may be to rebuild but as it is mostly still me posting hopefully the people who lurk will be happy to subscribe to the new community and in time hopefully it can grow into a more active place with my contributors.
More and more instances are also defederating with Lemmy.world recently over their questionable moderating and views. These politics should be kept out of music and music enjoyment / discussion and I want as many people to be able to both see and discover the music that is being posted here. This community is going to be stunted from growing and have less eyes on it in /all by staying on .world.
As such I have created a community over at -
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/dubstep
I’m going to continue posting two releases a day, as I have done here for over a year, just over there now where hopefully a better community can slowly be built and be seen by everyone who wants to.
Please come and join me over there, subscribe if you are just a lurker who enjoys the music I post. Hopefully one day there will be enough of us to have some better discussions but until then I will keep posting!
More and more instances are defederating with Lemmy.world recently
Links? I’d like to read about that.
It was only a matter of time, TBH.
My interactions with the admins were not that great and they are super quirky about taboo communities. My experience was trying to get them to publish specific rules regarding drugs and such. (I am a huge advocate of psychidelics. Not only are they fun, but the medicinal value of them is absolutely amazing.)
At the time, they basically said “no illegal things”. Ok, cool. I am in a legal state and can make my own psychidelics legally. Obviously, laws are different around the world, so some guidelines needed to be made for the communities to follow regarding this kind of thing. There are legal ways to share information, regardless of the subject.
I am not here to argue about what they choose to allow on their instance. What my beef was, is how they basically ignored such a broad topic and just left the rules “fuzzy”.
They basically nuked the biggest shrooms community on Lemmy and fucked off. So, here I am on .ca and have been loving it since.
- psychedelics
Anyways I’d be interested in better examples than lemmy.world admins not giving access to a substance (ab)use forum. Even if they banned an alcohol related sub I wouldn’t be that concerned
You missed the point, unfortunately. No offense, but I personally don’t care what your preferences are about specific topics: It’s just not relevant, and I’ll explain.
There are many things that may or may not be illegal where you are at, where the admins are at or even where the instance is located. There are ways to write simple rules that can meet a majority of any communities needs and my point is that the admins would not publish specific rules other than blanketing their decisions on catch-all instance rules.
While admin perogative is cool, letting a community build and flourish only to be squashed without justification or guidance for continuing is just bad practice. Building and maintaining a community takes work and time and for admins to ignore the requests of moderators just makes for unpleasant experience.
Also, there is a weird level of toxicity on lemmy.world. As it is usually the first hop for users fresh off of Reddit, that is kind of expected.
I don’t have any links to hand, it was triggered by a post I saw on all yesterday, it may have been from a smaller instance as I didn’t note the instance at the time of reading but I will have a proper look for a link for you later as I’ve just started work.
I’ve also been considering moving the community for a while whilst I’m still the only main poster so as to try and dilute communities and make Lemmy in general less centralised due to how many communities are hosted by .world. The longer I waited to do this the harder it may be to rebuild but as it is mostly still me posting hopefully the people who lurk will be happy to subscribe to the new community and in time hopefully it can grow into a more active place with my contributors.
edit
Reading this thread you linked, all the comments are from lemmy.ml, lemmy grad and hexbear. The three most toxic Lemmy’s in the entire fediverse. One comment said Lemmy.world is “too far right”. Give me a fucking break. I’m no fan of lemmy.world, but you can safely ignore anything said by these idiots.
Yes upon reviewing that post again today it isn’t the best examples of the fediverse, I think I must have seen it when it was initially posted so there weren’t any replies.
However that thread alone wasn’t my sole basis for the decision, I’m not the biggest fan of Lemmy.world either as well as the points I mentioned before, however that thread was kind of a tipping point where I said to myself “is Lemmy.worlds divisiveness negatively impacting the amount of eyes that could be turned in this direction”
Ultimately I don’t care to get into shit slinging or politics between instances, I just want the maximum possible traffic for what is already a very niche community / music genre in the hopes of fostering some kind of discourse between people on the music that we have in common.
:)
Well done, good luck for your move! As a suggestion, you can try locking the current community so that people will be pushed to move to the new one.
I did consider this but despite the fact that 99% of content here was posted by me I’m still not the sole moderator and I didn’t create this place initially so I went with the choice of pinning this in the hopes it is the first thing people see and it will redirect them.
Even though none of the other moderators are active in any sense of the word I also didn’t want to over step in that regard and lay waste to this one.
I may still do so regardless but these were just my initial thoughts on the matter.
Thanks. Subbing there and unsubbing here.
