Learned my lesson the first time with flagship instances on Mastodon. I can’t repeat it enough: flagships are for new users to federation until they find where they mesh. I don’t know that defederation is a great idea as a result, but I avoid the flagships at all costs myself to dodge the inevitable liberalism and other trash.
We’re trying to make Lemmy.ml not the flagship instance, we don’t really want to have a flagship instance for Lemmy at all. Not only do we no longer advertise it as such, instead saying it’s for leftists, we actually have a note in the sign up page saying “this one isn’t for everyone, look at your options before signing up”.
Still, I totally get where you’re coming from. People do assume we’re the flagship instance despite it, so I guess we still kind of are in that regard.
I get that. I think a lot of people see the “leftist space” description as a challenge, or worse yet, they don’t even read it. I inherently don’t have a problem with the grand majority of Lemmy.ml, I just know the problems I’ve seen with the influx and anarchists the last few weeks were tiring and reminiscent of my issues with Mastodon.
It’s actually kind of funny how mad some of the anarchists got in light of what you said elsewhere in the thread, because they acted like we needed to just stay in our space.
Learned my lesson the first time with flagship instances on Mastodon. I can’t repeat it enough: flagships are for new users to federation until they find where they mesh. I don’t know that defederation is a great idea as a result, but I avoid the flagships at all costs myself to dodge the inevitable liberalism and other trash.
We’re trying to make Lemmy.ml not the flagship instance, we don’t really want to have a flagship instance for Lemmy at all. Not only do we no longer advertise it as such, instead saying it’s for leftists, we actually have a note in the sign up page saying “this one isn’t for everyone, look at your options before signing up”.
Still, I totally get where you’re coming from. People do assume we’re the flagship instance despite it, so I guess we still kind of are in that regard.
I get that. I think a lot of people see the “leftist space” description as a challenge, or worse yet, they don’t even read it. I inherently don’t have a problem with the grand majority of Lemmy.ml, I just know the problems I’ve seen with the influx and anarchists the last few weeks were tiring and reminiscent of my issues with Mastodon.
It’s actually kind of funny how mad some of the anarchists got in light of what you said elsewhere in the thread, because they acted like we needed to just stay in our space.