Randomly found this on Reddit

Technically correct, but I wonder how people are gonna handle the really serious dictator shit, like friends and relatives disappearing instead of tweets.

I love it, but I fear for the day Lemmy becomes so popular that it is worthwhile for the corporate bots to begin gaming Lemmy’s algorithm to dominate front pages. I don’t think Lemmy is prepared to defend against this.
- I am still new to the fediverse but I figured that smaller constellations will federate without connecting to the largest federation.
  It’s harder to manipulate 500 disjoint federations than 1 really large one. Especially when some of those federations rely on heavy verification.
  Of course those smaller federations are likely organized around specific purposes or organizing interests rather than broad public discourse.

here we go bois

So nice that radical activism only requires I switch apps 🥳
- Plot twist: it's a ploy by reddit to get extremists off their platform and on to Lemmy
  
  It's a plot twist to overload the servers of single instances.
- Yeah this thing is worded so strong for what it is
  
  I don't know how the French are able to rally in real life and put everything on the line to push back fascism. I know I should do something real to fight back, but like, I've got a lot going on ya know? Maybe I'll be rallied by the time atrocities have already happened, but I hope not.

Oh, for fucks sake.

im kind of embarrassed by how cringe this is and i really hope they dont represent the fediverse
- I, uh, upvoted the post and reversed it.
  Fucking sends people to .ml specifically. Whoosh.
- I despise the way cringe gets used like this, and I still agree 100% with you
- In this moment, I am euphoric...
  -Aalewis

Having them pointed towards lemmy.ml is a little concerning.
- To be fair, it was apparently posted in r/anarchocommunism, so I'd just chalk it up to knowing your audience. At least it was just .ml, and not grad or hexbear!
- Capitalism destroyed our government, captured our constitution, and is literally ending the world (for humans, don't worry it'll be fine in a few million years and it'll be like we never existed, thank goodness for that).
  I find comedy in people likely here due to the greed rot of Spez wanting to go public and now fondling billionaire balls still, here on Lemmy like digital refugees in the wake of capitalism breaking promises to and destroying a community to increase private profit, going "ewww commies and socialists."
  Credit where it's due, the capitalist's Orwell game is God tier.
  
  .ml would be worse than Reddit if they had the same number of users.
  
  No, we are going "ewww tankies"
  
  I mean they are annoying
- I made an alternative linking to lemm.ee
  because in general this is a good flyer
  
  We should do a bunch of them with varying non-Tankie instances
  Like programming.dev or lemmy.blahaj.zone
  Or maybe even better, have a small table at the bottom with their focuses
- More than a little concerning, it's happened plenty of times before. People see that BS on the Tankie Triad and then leave thinking Lemmy is just a bunch of tankies
  Sometimes they try another non-Tankie instance and realize that we're not all like that, but I'm sure a majority never return always thinking that all of Lemmy is "that Tankie hangout" or worse, a Voat 2.0
- Whatever, infighting gets us nowhere , down with the big bad
- I'm not very into Lemmy, what's so bad about lemmy.ml?
  
  They're part of the Tankie Triad who deny the human rights violations of the CCP and hold them up as the gold standard.
  Basically Authoritarian bootlickers pretending to not be authoritarians
  
  It's controversial. It was created by the creators of Lemmy and has some techbro feelings about a lot of stuff. I'm not trying to start an .ml fight, I'm against pushing for any particular instance.
  I would recommend new users to stay away from the biggest ones and steer towards one level down. You want enough communities and instances to line your front page, but the big ones are big enough. Let's spread the load.
  
  It's a tankie instance. "ML" as in Marxism-Leninism.
  
  https://feddit.nl/post/16246531
  
  We read and comprehend the Communist Manifesto with some level of agreement and usually quite a bit more. But it's mostly privacy focused. Full disclosure: vegan anarchist.
- Who cares, just get them onboarded and we can deal with orientation later
  
  Because they'll onboard see the Tankie bullshit and go "oh it's just Voat 2.0 :/" and leave before ever making it to orientation

ITT: reddit 2.0 normies (read .world) crying about .ml again
- Yeah, us "normies" prefer to go to places that don't ban you for not passing their purity test.

i left yesterday after 12 years. joined lemmy. the internet was a lot cooler before it was run by billionaires and ass kissers who are intimidated by billionaires.
fuck em all
- i left yesterday after 12 years. joined lemmy.
  Welcome!
  Here's your welcome-possum:
  
  I thought we do welcome beans?
- My account is 14 years old, and I’m almost to the my line where I’m going to torch it. The censorship is getting bad!
  I do miss the Reddit from 10-14 years ago. So sad that it’s gone. It was truly amazing.
  
  You kept your account for 14 years? I always deleted my accounts after some time. Longest one was for almost 3 years I think.
  
  I found all the automated tools don't work anymore. It took me 3 hours to manually delete all my content before I i deleted my account. Good luck.
- Welcome!
- Welcome!
  The web UI is accessible on any device and there are plenty of apps as well such as Sync and Voyager.
  
  Jerboa has treated me well. I tried others but Jerboa is similar to Baconreader which is what I used in the olden times
- When you've settled in, consider joining a smaller instance! Just because it has "Lemmy" in the name doesn't mean it's official or good. We all federate together, so you can still join communities hosted on other instances.
  
  thank you! still wrapping my head around the "instances" thing but i think i'm starting to get it
- Welcome!
- Welcome, glad you could make it! I hope you find this to be a cool place.
  For best results, subscribe to communities you want to have a dedicated feed for, and block communities, instances and users that aren't worth your time, since there is the occasional jerk like you might find anywhere on the internet.
  
  since there is the occasional jerk like you
  Hey!
  might find anywhere on the internet.
  Oh.
- I'm going to repeat what I've been saying a lot lately. The default is "active." If that gets boring (it probably will), switch to "hot," "new," and "top 6 hours" to get a more vibrant experience. The search engine is confusing at first, but is pretty good.
- Welcome to the fight soldier.
  ignore the piles of beans.
  
  Currently shitty egg memes I believe.

They should really include the no ads thing. I think it's a great selling point, and it would be useful to leverage.
- While this is true some instances do need donations it's very probable that some instances could include ads in the future.
  
  Totally fair, but at the moment, there are none. And even if instances will start using 3rd party ads, there will also be instances that will never run ads. The power of federation at work.

Surprised it wasn’t banned quickly

While I agree with the message, that the people should leave all centralized Social Media services, the big mistake here is concentrating a massive user-base on one instance (.ml) of one specific service (Lemmy) instead of spreading the influx towards many smaller, but still solid instances and federated services (PieFed, Mastodon, MBin).
Even disregarding .ml's reputation, if this post does reach a substantial user-base, the only thing happening then is .ml receiving a HoD and people losing faith in the Fediverse as a whole (e: spelling) due to this, sadly. :c
- Edit different versions for different instances

That's some grade A fine vintage gourmet cringe.
- I skimmed it the first time and didn't notice how bad it was. I don't like using the word cringe but this is quite the composition, lmao
  What a hero
- It's quite bombastic. I just wanted a place that wasn't run by a corporation.

Aside from other concerns, I find the association with Brexit to be less than ideal. But people should also note that this was posted on r/anarchocommunism so it makes sense they recommended lemmy.ml
Overall it's fine, we are still at the stage where just getting people to hear about the existence of Lemmy is a big win. They may join and leave, they may just navigate to the page and not join, but now they are aware of it and may eventually decide to join in the future when reddit fucks up again.
- DB0 would be a far better fit like @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world said
  
  That's true, but I'm just pointing out that it's a leftist subreddit recommending lemmy.ml, so it's not going out to a generalized audience.
  And honestly they're not as tankie as people claim, that title really belongs to hexbear and lemmygrad. The management of lemmy.ml is tankie friendly, but many or even most of the users are not actually tankies.
  It's very complicated because they were the main server for a long time before any of us even joined Lemmy, and all of their public descriptions don't even mention leftism at all, it's just about privacy and FOSS. Many users have made accounts there and used it for years without really caring or engaging with the tankie allegations or posts. It's not as bad as some people make it out to be.
  Hexbear on the other hand is actually worse than anyone could ever explain without experiencing it for yourself. So let's not forget the two servers are not identical.

I saw it being denounced as a psyop which I thought was funny, since I think it pretty clearly isn't one. But directing people to lemmy.ml is bad advice as most of us know.
- When I first heard of Lemmy, I curiously poked around, and at the time it was just lemmygrad and ml. Needless to say I backed out quickly. Glad it got some diversity with the api kerfuffle.

where every user is a revolutionary
Ahem. Cosplays as a revolutionary.
- Tell me the difference between resistance and performative resistance?
  
  Look I'm not gonna dox the mf'er, but the primary force behind the .ml instance, and frankly all of lemmy, spends a lot of time enjoying the privilege and benefits that come with being a well paid software living in a "global north" social democracy. Thankfully, they have since cleaned up their profile, but previously, it was trivially easy to figure out where a certain person lived, at least the metro, what company they worked at, and that their income range was well into the 6 figure plus.
  If you are new to lemmy, maybe take a bit more time to develop your understanding of the 'lore' that underpins this place. If you are already familiar, please understand that basically the core development team of lemmy, and admins of the dot ml instance advocate for a kind of authoritarianism they've been shielded from their entire lives, and that they've enjoyed extraordinary privilege that has only, historically, been available to the global north, and specifically, a kind of democratic socialism that affords them incredible breadth of opportunity. And its fine that they have contradictions and don't live their perspectives; but I'm going to exercise a significant degree of criticism at this disconnect.

You lost me at the tankie instance link.
- .ml is not the tankie instance. It just has some tankies, maybe more than others. I do agree that .ml should not be advertised as the default

I hope lemmy.ml is ready for the influx, particularly as this post linked them directly.
- Hopefully NOT so it breaks and people go-to more sane instances
  
  Think of your average redditor. They'll just think it's broken and go back to reddit.

Lemmy mods delete posts and threads too. Interesting choice to use the Lemmy.ml instance in this message. Coincidentally they just deleted one of my threads in asklemmy recently.

I guess we can expect the amount of time it spends up to be counted in minutes..
- And... it's gone.
  
  Still up?
  https://old.reddit.com/r/anarchocommunism/comments/1iiagxi/call_out_ops_where_you_find_them/
  
  Good, needs to be redone to remove lemmy.ml and put literally any other instance not in the Tankie Triad

Xit

Should've point to .world
Isn't that one the most popular of the lemmy instances?
EDIT: this is mostly so the newcomer finds plenty content to not leave after a few minutes of browsing.
- https://lemm.ee/ defaults to All, second most active instance