I’m currently struggling to find my home. I have an account here at lemmy.ml, where most of my posts are, and one at kbin.

Why do you think your instance is the place to be?

  • CeruleanRuinEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    I just picked lemmy.one mostly at random, but also in part because it advertised itself as well regulated but also not heavily populated and thus prone to crashing with the recent influx of reddfugees.

    Seems to work okay, but I can’t create a community without admin approval and the instance also disallows downvoting, and I’m not a big fan of that at all, but I’ll give it a while longer and see.

    I’m still finding it a challenge to find the balance of communities that interest me I used to have. There’s an awful lot of meta chatter about the site itself from new users that, while I understand, gets rather annoying when it takes up the whole feed. So it’s definitely an adjustment, resulting in me using it less than I did my old haunts, but in the meantime I’ve gotten a lot more reading done than I used to, so I’ve got that going for me.

    • FmstratEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Didn’t realize I couldn’t downvote. Might be time to look elsewhere.

      • CeruleanRuinEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        Me, I’m waiting for things to settle a bit and see what recommendations float to the surface for me. Not being able to downvote might turn out to actually be good for my own mental health. We’ll see.

        • FmstratEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I didn’t come here to have my options limited. I’d stay on Reddit if that were the case, and I don’t need another YouTube “remove dislike for my own good” moment.

          Context: I rarely used downvotes on Reddit, but there were also pretty involved mods. I could see in this federated world a bit of wildness, and not being able to snuff out the misleading with downvotes could be an issue. I hope I rarely use it here, too, but it will only take not being able to once for it to be a deal-breaker.

          • CeruleanRuinEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Agree wholeheartedly. I hope the admins of lemmy.one take these factors into account.

      • CeruleanRuinEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Good to know. Most of that stuff is way too esoteric and over my head. I just want to be able to talk about movies and Star Trek with other fans without all the damned corpo-capitalist bullcrap. Looks like I need to keep shopping for an instance that joves with that ethos, because this clearly ain’t it with a guy like that running it.