New Communities @lemmy.world Blaze @reddthat.com 3 wk. ago

Reviving !linux@programming.dev as an alternative to !linux@lemmy.ml

As usual with the fediverse, choice is key.

There were quite a few complaints on !fediverse@lemmy.world about !linux@lemmy.ml not having any real alternative (https://reddthat.com/post/20166234), so let's see if we can revive the programming.dev one.

And if it fails, at least we tried.

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I'm in, but mostly a lurker.
- Your votes are valuable
  
  Thanks! I agree some of what's needed are more lurkers to vote up the little content that is posted, to get more folks posting.
Great stuff! I will start posting there instead <3
What's wrong with !linux@lemmy.world ?
- Hyper centralization of communities on LW
What's wrong with !linux@lemmy.ml ?
- The lemmy.ml instance has been problematic for a while largely because it’s rife with tankies, but it’s gotten a lot worse lately, and the mods and admins are going kinda crazy over there banning people and censoring stuff.
  
  This is the fediverse working as intended. An instance gets shitty, and people migrate away from it to a better instance.
  
  The moderation issue over there is problematic, but at the end of the day, if that’s how the .ml admins want to play it, it’s kinda their call. There’s no appeal process - they are the ultimate authority for that instance. And the user base can stay or migrate, depending on whether they want to put up with that bullshit. In a way, it’s actually kinda cool to see the theory of fediverse user migration patterns actually play out in response to real life context.
- https://reddthat.com/post/20166234
  
  Were they talking about China on a Linux community?
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- ?
  
  ../
Oh no, there's communists involved in my free global collaborative software project!
- Not communists. Tankies.
- Tankies != Communists
  
  Tankies == Authoritarian Communists and Stalin/Mao/etc apologists
  
  They are very different, despite sharing a word.
- Tankies are not communists

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