this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
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- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
- !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com to organize overall fediverse growth
- !reddit@lemmy.world to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
- !newcommunities@lemmy.world
- !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
- https://lemvotes.org/
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Piefed over Lemmy?
In this case piefed and lemmy are basically compatible, so the communities can have a mix of the two. For example, the OP posted this with piefed, and you replied to it with presumably lemmy. So it may divide up developer effort a bit, but the community isn't divided.
Well if that's the case, then I'm fine with it being a thing. I thought they were a competing and thus incompatible platform.
Nope that's the beauty of the Fediverse. I can reply to this from PieFed (as I'm doing now) and you can do from Lemmy.
That's open source for you. The biggest issue for things gaining traction is a million projects that all do the same thing "better". Look at Linux, if people are curious about "switching to Linux" all it takes is one comment thread somewhere to confuse then enough to bail on the idea.
That's more a community and presentation problem than a fragmentation problem. If people could agree on objective criteria for recommending Linux distros to newbies, it wouldn't be so intimidating to them.
Nobody criticizes Ford or Toyota for having "too many options" when they sell cars because they present those options as complementary and people see the variety as a good thing. Linux distros are often presented as competing products, even though for most of them that's not the case.
It doesn't fracture anything, it is basically a Fediverse reader/writer. It's like opening a txt file in vim, emacs, or nano, they all read and write to that file type at the end of the day. Don't forget, there's also Kbin.
Because the Lemmy devs support genocide, love Stalin, and are transphobic.
I miss the innocent days when I thought only right-wingers could be transphobic.
Oh. Oh no.
Can you expand on this for a newbie?
The two devs Nutomic and Deslanies are pro-Russia anti-Ukraine tankies.
One has a GitHub where he posts all his mind numbing theory and goes on about how the Uyghurs aren’t undergoing a genocide or Tiananmen Square never happened.
The other has been caught multiple times making transphobic comments and just generally not giving a shit if transgender people are victims.
Together with some other equally bad people they make up a trio of instances commonly referred to as the “tankie triad” (lemmygrad.ml, Lemmy.ml, and Hexbear.net) where they ban everyone who says critical things about Russia/China and generally push propaganda.
So stay away from the “tankie triad” (lemmygrad.ml, Lemmy.ml, and Hexbear.net)
Gotcha
Thanks sock puppet account, very helpful
Literally moved yesterday from reddit when I got banned because I angrily pointed out some fascist was parroting Trump/Russian talking points. Apparently it's harassment to tell someone their wrong on a public forum
Reddit has a pro-fascist problem. Calling them out will get you banned.
Pro fascist and heavily AI moderated now.
I made two jokes using Australian colloquialisms and the system banned me twice for "threatening violence".
And you only get 200-300 characters to try and explain it.
Wtf.
...reddit is a vibrant community...something something values different viewpoints. /s
Their moderation is dishonest.
they use AI to moderate, so pretty much. and only an admin can unban someone, given how much appeals they get, they are unlikely to see 99% of appeals anyways.