The right wing instances are just defederated from this larger federated group because the people on them were unable to follow the rules of other instances. Repeatedly, they would throw tantrums and create loads of dupe accounts to spam shit when people downvoted their shitty views or their accounts got banned. If they were capable of behaving with civility and following the rules, they'd still be here.

No idea how active that corner of the Lemmyverse is these days, but they have repeatedly chosen to behave in a way that leaves instance administrators with little choice other than defederation.

Repeated content. When I doomscroll I see the same posts I've already seen instead of less popular ones.

little bit like ghost towns

Welcome to my world! I try to post sports I watch on [email protected] as much possible as I can. Same goes for [email protected] and for [email protected]. Lately is more politics and memes.

The tankies are far and away the largest problem. It's the number one reason why lemmy hasn't grown. Even when I signed up years ago from the reddit exodus every post I saw was heavily cautioned with "it's filled with tankies". And now every mention of it is being scrubbed for that reason. The second problem is the smaller size but see reason 1 for that.

Third problem is the sign up process being so excruciating. I understand it's to prevent bots but for every 2 bots it's preventing it's probably also preventing 1 actual user from signing up. I love this place despite the small size, because I can just sequester off all the tankies entirely on Connect, but if the creators don't realize they're actively standing in the way of growth by the actions they're taking and step away from all their moderation actions to focus on administration and development instead the outlook doesn't look too great.

That’s what happened. It’s not the solution.

The solution is to behave with civility online and you don't get banned. No one needs to break instance rules.

If someone is incapable of doing that, why should they get to participate?

The fact that they happen to predominantly come with right wing view points is, frankly, secondary. It's literally the bare minimum amount of effort in life to simply not be a nuisance.

Beehaw being defederated from LW and SJW prevents around 30% of the people on the platform of seeing that community. Have you considered maybe posting to a community on an instance that is more accessible?

I think Lemmy just don’t tolerate that view point. I see plenty of hard leftism being tolerated by mods when they shouldn’t. But hey, none of them are my instance. It’s grossly lopsided.

I didn't even know that they were defederated, I will thanks for the info!!

The two main "hard left" instances have been defederated from LW too (hex and grad)

LML is ostensibly a general instance with a strong left wing slant. So I'm assuming those are the users you're referring to. Every time I've personally seen a LML user step over the line for a given community's rules, they have been banned for it.

Predominantly though, those users are capable of understanding rules and following them.

That's literally all anyone needs to do.

It's not really about political views. It's simply about not being an asshole.

Happy to help, let me know once you settle for a community, I can help try to post there too!

I see [email protected] this [email protected] and this [email protected]
The first one looks active, we can post news there.

Thank you for the list!

For the first one, the main mod and poster there seems quite active on [email protected] https://thelemmy.club/u/[email protected]

Their modlog https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=157506

I'm not the biggest fan of feddit.org since https://feddit.org/post/12529640 and https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/44422088

https://lemmy.org seems to be a one-admin thing, they wanted to sell the domain name for 20k https://lemmy.org/post/90035

Seems like we might have to start a new community x)

Look I get what you trying to say, but we need to pick one, and there are not a lot of communities to do that(without making a new one). check this one [email protected] but I believe the first one was ok.

It's just a community in the end, we should leave politics aside on this IMO.

Onboarding. I think it'll be better if people promoted individual instances instead of Lemmy as a whole. As a whole, it seems vague.

lemmy.ml and its admins being the developers at the same time.

The default home feed: out of the box, it puts too much shit in the face of newcomers.

Once filtered out, it's great but one must first learn to filter the noise out which, I'm pretty sure, is dissuasive to a lot of non-geek users like myself.