For example, I want to join a Today I learned community but when I search for it, I come across 4 of them on different instances.
What do you guys do when you see this? Join the one with the most users, join all of them?
For example, I want to join a Today I learned community but when I search for it, I come across 4 of them on different instances.
What do you guys do when you see this? Join the one with the most users, join all of them?
Disable downvoting and censor too many instances. Any instance that does the first is an immediate red flag. Beehaw also had a rule originally against asking for evidence (they call it sealioning). Anyone who does the “sealioning” trolling is also a big red flag.
That’s disappointing, I liked Beehaw from what they have posted as their official ideas / methodology. Did they give any reasoning for why sealioning is a bad thing? I can’t think of any reason why asking for evidence could be a bad thing, in fact I’d personally want to encourage it.
They are just leeching off all the Western chauvinists and reactionaries that get pissed by Lemmy.ml, trying to become THE instance. I am seeing this behaviour from people recommending solely Beehaw on Reddit to those trying to jump ship. However, this pattern also applies to those recommending sopuli.xyz, lemmy.one and lemmy.ca because they hate communist politics while silently supporting neoliberal Anglo supremacy. Evidence is against their politics, so sealioning bad!