I don't hate LW, I even regularly post to a few LW communities. The sysadmins do a good job. There are a few debatable moderation decisions, but those are usually documented on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

The main issues I have with it is

• centralization of communities coupled with the current federation implementation creating 7-days delay for instance like aussie.zone (see !fedimemes@feddit.uk for a meme and discussion on that topic)
• their communities being the default means they can take controversial decisions and impact a topic for everyone until an alternative community emerges. See all the debates with the Media Bias Fact Checker bot, which in the end got removed from !world@lemmy.world (!globalnews@lemmy.zip for an alternative) but apparently it still on !politics@lemmy.world
• another consequence of centralization is impact of their being unavailable. People here might remember August 2023 when LW was under consistent DDoS attack, it was barely usable. This prevented a third of Lemmy total users to use Lemmy. Should they face a similar issue in the future, most of the Lemmy communities would be unusable.

Another point I haven't seen mentioned is that they are still federated with Threads: https://fedipact.veganism.social/

They are the last large instance which still is.

You're a good host, sorry to hear this

Thank you for this comment.

I've interacted with Rooki a few times, most of them were nice, but I've also seen Rooki being indeed unicivilly and antagonistically towards users.

Let's see what the update brings.

Based on Monthly active users, the picture is different: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

You already see a 4 sh.itjust.works community, a lemmy.ca community, a lemmy.zip community just from the top 30

!fedigrow@lemm.ee

!newcommunities@lemmy.world

Thanks for the insight!

Please don't, they are nice people, they just prefer to stay small

Hopefully that will motivate people to move to !linux@lemmy.ml

I guess the issue is to importing the huge list of blocked instances to the new account

Thank you for the update, seems like a reasonable approach

Articles > videos

Actually most of the discussion happens in !reddit@lemmy.ml