Fediverse

The communities above are not managed by a project organisation (the only one I know if !librewolf@lemmy.ml), it's just that until last week, lemmy.ml was considered the go-to instance for FOSS and Linux.

Network effect is here, I know it first hand as I've been busy posting to !linux@programming.dev to try to offer people an alternative to the lemmy.ml community.

But I'm not planning to do that with the communities above, and same for the other FOSS communities, because I have other stuff to do

• !opensource@lemmy.ml
• !degoogle@lemmy.ml

The vast majority of people going to those communities just want a place with enough people to answer their questions on the topic. They are not going to organize a migration, most of them are probably not even aware of the issues with lemmy.ml administration (seems like the post got removed from lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/comment/11606059)

I see where you come from, and I get it to an extend, but the vast majority of people are probably going to keep going to those communities without any change.

If someone wants to organize a migration of those above communities (the thread I linked above can be a starting point), feel free, but I wouldn't count on it. And without an active migration, those communities will stay the reference for those topics.

On an interesting note, !collapse@lemmy.ml move to !collapse@lemm.ee recently.