All the comments making personal attacks on me were greatly upvoted, and other reasonable and on-topic comments were downvoted. There was a delay before it occurred, and then all the comments were up/downvoted the same amount, and new ones met the same fate, so there was clearly a group of people who were notified about the thread at some point who then continually monitored it and voted on new comments.

Interesting

I’ve seen lots of criticisms of lemmy.ml, and even attempts to [dishonestly] attack the .ml developers.

Well, they are known for their agressive moderation methods: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

For me, the fact that we are having this conversation on the social web is a evidence pointing in the opposite direction of your concerns. I counted contributors from eight different websites and at least three different software platforms only in this comment section of twelve comments.

Alternative social media platforms have never looked so healthy!

Very true!

Taking 30$ per year as a reference point as this is your pricing on Communick (I know it also involves Mastodon and Matrix, but there is no Lemmy only package anymore, so that’s the only option), this is too high and goes against the philosophy of free software.

Does your Linux distribution ask you for a yearly fee for development and maintenance costs?

Does F-droid ask you for a yearly fee?

Grayjay?

On the other hand, some people paid for Sync, so there is still an part of the Lemmy population who is ready to pay for software, but Sync is a polished product they knew they could trust quality wise.

Nice!

Did you try promoting it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !parenting@lemmy.world ?

Haven’t we discussed this question at length recently?

You actually never answered my last comment, which answers tour question, so maybe you missed it: https://feddit.org/comment/1871850

Thank you for the update, glad that you like it better now

I guess at the time the mods removed your blog post by mistake, because they didn’t expect personal blogs here.

About the votes, it might have been because of the opinion I quoted above.

It very much does. Every time I see someone opening an RPG community on LW, I ask them why they didn’t do it on ttrpg.network, usually they didn’t know about it, and now it’s too late, they are committed to their new community

I’ve experienced pro-reddit astroturfing on lemmy. I posted this criticism of reddit on the reddit@lemmy.world comm, and it was heavily astroturfed and then deleted by the mod for a bogus reason.

I think I remember this.

Federated alternatives like Lemmy: I grew up on the internet and am far more tech/internet savvy than the average person, and I find federated options confusing and complicated. I also read that they’re very complex and not scalable on the technical end as well. They don’t seem like a viable option that can gain major traction. I’ll keep watching though, maybe I’ll be wrong.

I really dislike the bloated UI they’re all using, but it looks like there are solutions on the way.

I’m wondering, is this still your opinion?

Thanks for sharing, feddit.cl is usually quite active

3 posts, mod gone since 7 months, should probably be closed with a pinned post to the LW one

Thank you for the list!

!warhammer40k@lemmy.world

!tabletopminis@lemmy.world

!rpg@ttrpg.network

Actually I’m going to create the thread, the video games thread is already quite busy

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!dragonball@ani.social

The post, in the community we’re in, !newcommunities@lemmy.world

Basically a post titled “Anime related active communities promotion post”, no even need for a body, people are probably used to them by now

There was one for humour 12 days ago: https://lemmy.ca/post/27868496

Books and literature could be a good one, would you like to create it?

We have a detailed post on !fedigrow@lemm.ee : https://lemmy.world/post/14728407?scrollToComments=true