jointhefediverse.net seems to be a commonly linked resource for directing people to join the Fediverse.
Curiously, it does not list Lemmy under the list of Reddit alternatives. Their GitHub README explains why.
Previous relevant discussion: https://lemmy.ml/post/78808
I don’t know. I just came across it yesterday, and I thought it’d be something interesting to share.
It was explained in the post’s body actually:
Seeing as I’ve only started using Lemmy less than a month ago, I’ve only just very recently started realizing that.
I appreciate you posting it
It’s okay, I see your account is quite new, so no worries.
As I said, those issues are known, you can have a look at !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com for posts complaining about power tripping mods, be it lemmy.ml or elsewhere.
The key takeaway is that even with its flaws, Lemmy is the biggest Reddit alternative by far (Discuit has less than 200 weekly active posters, Lemmy has 42000). If there would have been a better alternative people would probably have moved there, but there wasn’t (and still isn’t) any, so here we are
This was like me months ago. A lot of people here take the mentality of “Well I know about it, so it MUST be common knowledge that everybody knows!”
Completely forgetting that there are 8 billion people on the planet, and something like 65k people on lemmy. Statistically speaking, this means basically nobody in the entire planet knows about lemmy, or the issues with lemmy.ml.
So for every NEW user, this is ALWAYS new info. It’s not like facebook where I don’t have an account, but already know zuck’s a massive piece of shit.
The question is more “how many people on Lemmy know about the ml political stance”
Posts like this (https://feddit.org/post/3912054) with 205 comments show that most of the people are usually aware.
For new joiners, there is a post on !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca about this.
FWIW: I used join-lemmy.org and found lemmy.ml, submitted my registration, but then checked on Wikipedia and it says lemmy.world is the largest instance, so I wanted to cancel my registration for lemmy.ml (there’s no such feature according to the admin). Anyway, that’s how I ended up here on lemmy.world 😆
Did not notice any of the political leanings until just a few days ago, so it’s definitely not obvious unless you look deeper into things.
As I said, you’re new here.
I bring up the topic regularly on /r/Redditalternatives: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1fmuk7o/post_to_address_the_usual_criticism_about_lemmy/
Every time I mention Lemmy there, I point to discuss.online and sopuli.xyz: https://reddit.com/comments/1hxduw2/comment/m68fhsc
It is also part of a dedicated post on !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca : https://lemmy.world/post/21568033
We could probably improve its visibility.