There's almost always a more deserving community that could use some good content and growth!

[saintwacko@slrpnk.net]

I believe you mean clbuttic

[diva@lemmy.ml]

There's always someone on .world with an axe to grind lmao

[justas@sh.itjust.works]

... Or slut, which means end.

[bdonvr@thelemmy.club]

There's nothing wrong with .ml communities stop the stupid infighting, splitting discussion on Lemmy further will do nothing but hurt the fediverse.

[goodeye8@lemm.ee]

True, but the same issue happens with reddit as well, for example gaming vs games vs truegaming. Over time those communities either found their niche (gaming sub became mostly memes, games sub became news and discussions and truegaming tried to become a more serious discussing sub). Actually there were way more gaming subs but unless they found their niche they died out. So people gravitating towards specific communities is a natural occurrence.

As for trying to automatically consolidate communities across instances, it sounds like a great idea on paper but seems like technical she moderation headache, because you won't have a clear source of truth. Let's say instance A and instance B both have a community called news. The same news article with the same title is posted on both communities on both instances by different users. Assuming we want to consolidate those posts into one, which instance post will be shown or in more technical terms, which instance becomes the source of truth for that post? Who makes that decision? What if there's also instance C with the same community and the same post but that instance isn't federated with instance A, how do we consolidate posts? Each community has its own moderators and moderation rules, who is allowed to moderate the post? What if the moderation rules contradict between instances and both instances want to apply the rules independently, are they supposed to split the post?

Maybe there is an elegant solution to all the problems but I don't see there being one. I'm not against the idea, the problem is you want to solve its something I have given some thought and because of that I just don't see it working out the way you're imagining it.

[can@sh.itjust.works]

Exactly, I've even tested with setting my comment to French, exclusively speaking French within, and it's still filtered.

And that pissed off a couple people who just couldn't believe my motivation was anything other than desire to say slurs.

[can@sh.itjust.works]

splitting discussion on Lemmy further will do nothing but hurt the fediverse.

No one's saying defederate.

[can@sh.itjust.works]

Consolidation is still worse long term. There's not that many competing communities.

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

Having a tankie instance as prominent as .ml is already hurting the Fediverse. It's not a few bad Apple communities, it's literally the admins and mods cultivating an instance wide Tankie culture/factory full of China-bootlicking and genocide denials

[nasan@sopuli.xyz]

I concede that despite not being alive when it was going on, I am just as guilty as everyone in the CIA that rigged elections and staged coups in South America. Everything I've come to know and understand in this lifetime is tainted by imperialism and is therefore invalid.

[bdonvr@thelemmy.club]

[diva@lemmy.ml]

it’s literally the admins and mods cultivating an instance wide Tankie culture/factory full of China-bootlicking and genocide denials

Dramatic

[can@sh.itjust.works]

Fine, can we concede that while they're allowing other topics to flourish on their instance there are also unwritten rules that lead to confused banned users?

[can@sh.itjust.works]

Helpful links:

Lemmyverse is a good place for finding communities your instance might not know about

Lemmy Federate is good for seeding communities to other instances.

[diva@lemmy.ml]

Can you elaborate about unwritten rules? Most of the bans I've seen has been for pretty clear rules violations, there's some stuff which might fly on reddit (like xenophobia, sexism, racism, transphobia), that will catch a ban here. Having rules against bigotry actually getting enforced is probably a confusing occurrence for some redditors. Even people behaving hostile will generally only catch a temp ban to cool down, permanent bans are more for people who are being bigoted.

I have had plenty of issues with at least one of the admins, despite that I have yet to be censored for saying as much. The red-baiting disguised as legitimate concerns rubs me the wrong way though.

[gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

So you admit to paying 0 attention?

YePowerTrippingBastards on my home instance is a good starting place, have fun

Or, you know, play the classic .ml card of pretending you don't know what we're all talking about

[diva@lemmy.ml]

More often than not someone when complains about getting banned and I bother to follow up in the modlog it turns out that they got like a 3-7 day ban for acting like an complete asshole. Then they proceed to vague post about it months later despite the ban being long over.

[viking_hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I very much like that, by all reliable reports, Scunthorpe is a real cunt of a town

[can@sh.itjust.works]

Most of the time, yeah. But there have been enough other cases over the past couple years that I wouldn't put too many eggs in that basket (or any for that matter).

[viking_hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I don't know about the other Nordic countries, but here in Denmark, "fag" also means profession and is used as a colloquial term for many related groups and concepts.

On a slightly related but hilarious to me note, "bad" being Danish for "bath" and a company refusing to change with the times to accommodate an increasingly international marketplace has resulted in one of the most successful mid tier bathroom design companies in the country still being called "Bad Design"