Isn’t r/canada a conservative shithole?

Weird ass name

The Dutch government already made an official mastodon instance: social.overheid.nl

The Netherlands just can’t stop being based

A more fitting terminal theme and it looks great

You can migrate to another instance with all your followers very easily in Mastodon.

I can see Lemmy comms being able to do the same and it’s already been opened as an issue on the GitHub

Lemmy as a whole not being hurt even if some domains are gone is the entire point of being decentralized. But yeah, it’s really bad that communities made there will also be gone as it is now.

We need user and community migration like Mastodon has, and quick.

I have 4 accounts. Most probably have at least 2, one for nsfw

The active user count is much more accurate.

Just ignore this post then lmao it’s not gonna affect your use case

If there’s one company you should preemptively block, it’s Facebook. They have a track record of destroying anything and everything they touch and there is zero reason to think it won’t be the same this time. From this post:

They aren’t some new, bright-eyed group with no track record. They’re a borderline Machiavellian megacorporation with a long and continuing history of extremely hostile actions:

• Helping enhance genocides in countries
• Openly and willingly taking part in political manipulation (see Cambridge Analytica)
• Actively have campaigned against net neutrality and attempted to make “facebook” most of the internet for members of countries with weaker internet infra - directly contributing to their amplification of genocide (see the genocide link for info)
• Using their users as non-consenting subjects to psychological experiments.
• Absolutely ludicrous invasions of privacy - even if they aren’t able to do this directly to the Fediverse, it illustrates their attitude.
• Even now, they’re on-record of attempting to get instance admins to do backdoor discussions and sign NDAs.

From what I understand, they’re likely trying to kill the fediverse by making it irrelevant (embrace, extend, extinguish) seeing how it’s finally starting to grow, since they can’t just buy it up this time like they’ve always done to competitors.

Even aside from that though, their algorithms designed to retain user attention by any means necessary are definitely going to seep into and poison the fediverse, at least indirectly, if they’re federated.

Not to mention they could easily run ads as normal posts and boost them artificially; they are an ad company after all. Wouldn’t put it past them.

Not federating with them means we don’t have to deal with all that, and the fediverse can just continue to grow naturally as it’s been doing.

Federating on the other hand means a very real risk of permanently halting the fediverse’s growth in favour of corporations’, like Google did to XMPP

Yeah we should’ve thrown that naming scheme away when moving here

Maybe someone will make an equivalent community with a better name? Or better yet, lemmy could allow changing community names, perhaps with the admin’s approval to prevent spam and stuff