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jointhefediverse.net - Why was Lemmy removed from the list of fediverse alternatives? (github.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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jointhefediverse.net seems to be a commonly linked resource for directing people to join the Fediverse.

Curiously, it does not list Lemmy under the list of Reddit alternatives. Their GitHub README explains why.

Previous relevant discussion: https://lemmy.ml/post/78808

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, .ml is a default instance and the main devs instance, what happens there reflects on all of us

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was made very clear from the start that .ml was not meant to be a 'default instance'.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Too bad for all of us that it is though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

If anything is too bad, it's .world being so prominent.

Half this comm's activity is spreading FUD about the platform and being a gathering place for all the people developing their alternatives to huddle and advertise those.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Default where?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I don't see it on that page. Going to "See all servers" lists "lemmy.ml" at a random position in the list. Looking at "Join a server" and using "Generic" or "All topics" also lists it in a random position. Am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you use "Most active", it will shows up after lemm.ee and the other big instances. So not default, but would still be recommended to new joiners

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well to me that doesn't fit the "it's default" description.

While looking at that, I couldn't see lemmy.world on that page. I found that join-lemmy.org now excludes instances with >30% user share in order to dampen centralisation. Which makes sense I guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To me, the only solution to this is to do a hard fork. Take the code (It's AGPL), rename it if Lemmy is trademarked, and encourage admins to use it and contributors to target it. Maybe start a non-profit or LLC while we're at it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Good luck finding Rust devs interested in link aggregators. That fork would probably fall behind, and people would switch back to Lemmy as they keep delivering features.

Mbin and Piefed use more popular languages and haven't caught up yet