So i was earlier at mainstream social media apps, by it was very shitty(dumb people), then I went to reddit, after some while I realised it’s also shit(clown people and dumb mods, like no freedom). So now I found this. I have few queries- 1.How does fediverse and lemmy work, couldn’t find much on the Internet and AI wasn’t much help either. 2.Whats the environment here? 3.What all words and how freedom is allowed here? 4.What are some general rules/unspoken tradition to follow if any? 5.Anything else u wanna tell about
Fediverse is a large network of servers which are allowed to communicate with each other. Some fediverse servers refuse to communicate with some others referred to as “Defederation”. Each “instance” as we call them has its own hosts, owners, admins, and rules.
The major flavors of fediverse instances are Piefed, Lemmy, and Kbin/mbin. They’re open source frameworks used to build the instances.
I strongly strongly strongly advice against instances which are still federated with Hexbear, a Chinese propoganda botnet, such as Lemmy ML or Lemmy Today, and I actually advise against all lemmy instances in general because their codebase maintainers are anti-trans, pro-genocide, pro-Trump, and pro-Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Wait, whaa? You mean lemmy.world, too? Can you please point me to a source for this? I joined on lemmy.world just as a reddit refugee when they killed all the 3rd party apps and I’m still only partway familiar with how the fediverse works haha (why I opened this thread)… I’ve had a good experience on lemmy.world so far, I obviously don’t want to inadvertently support those initiatives, though…
So the Lemmy framework developers only officially host the Lemmy ML instance themselves but they are responsible for all the feature pushes and merges in the code. They use this authority to throw up a banner asking for donations on every Lemmy instance, and when asked why the Lemmy World team hadn’t taken the banner down they said they explicitly do support them including with their own donations.
You can find more information on the Lemmy developer’s extremism on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works in the post “Documentation of Lemmy.ml’s Extremism”
Oooooof. Guess I gotta learn how to move myself to another instance now, and if my fave app will even work with that instance. Heh. Sigh. How disappointing. Really appreciate you calling it out, explaining it, and sharing the source.
There isn’t any mechanism for migrating your accounts, you would just make an account elsewhere and abandon this one.
I’m not sure how much it matters that you’re using Lemmy software when you’re on an instance that isn’t the the devs’, but money talks I suppose. Generally instance owners pay attention to changes and keep things configured in a sane way
But just the same, the same team that runs lemmy.world also run piefed.world if you still think you feel you need to switch to different software. It’s what I did. But you can move to piefed.social if you’d rather ditch the team entirely
I don’t think they applied their politics to their software yet though, right? Unlike the Piefed dev.
Well, regardless I’m glad I chose to go with a software that isn’t tied to politics at all.
Please read the other replies. They regularly put up a funding banner and have a long history of pushing extreme propaganda and silencing dissent, and they’ve also been known to use their homepage to promote instances which align with their views rather than by any merit.
Please cite source on the piefed dev.