Sidebar is bilingual. Most of the French speaking Canadian communities are on Lemmy.ca, the rest on Jlai.lu
Blaze
joined 3 months ago
That's also the thing. I want the least worse instance. Not being able to post at the moment is a far bigger issue than being federated with lemmy.ml
Hopefully in the coming days this gets fixed.
Admin told me on Matrix it is indeed due to the beta
If you got an account that quickly, that would speak positively to how responsive the main instance admin is? It is hard to tell b/c of how Lemmy hides precise dates starting at the 1-month mark, but before then the admin seemed to always respond to inquiries within a day?
It was automated, I got the email directly, validated it, and that was it.
That’s super weird that you cannot access the site.
Now I can browse, but cannot post. Maybe a trial period to avoid spammers.
There are only 9 instances that have >1k monthly active users, and none of those defederate from Lemmy.ml. And people have been talking about this issue for months now, so if I missed a mid-sized instance I would have hoped that someone would have mentioned it by now.
Don't forget that a lot of users have historical lemmy.ml accounts from before the exodus. I know a few lemmy.ml users that are nice, and it's kind of hard to tell them to switch instances because their admins can do some power tripping.
For Beehaw, it's for historical reasons. In June 2023 LW and SJW became the largest instances, and hence had the largest number of toxic users. Beehaw estimated that the moderators were not doing enough to moderate those users, thus defederated.
If you look at Beehaw, they are still on 0.18.3. It's unclear whether they will switch to another software like Piefed or Mbin, but they don't want to update to the latest Lemmy versions.
Being defederated from LW and SJW cuts them from most of the users and content, but they seem happy that way.
@OpenStars@piefed.social FYI Lemmy.cafe is quite slow for me, and I can't create posts. Might be due to using the 0.19.6-beta version of Lemmy
What happens if you hide them in your Lemmy settings? But maybe a question to ask on the Voyager community
Nice article. Hopefully other universities follow.
Well, seems like we are not there yet:
Looks like they deleted their account