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This was like me months ago. A lot of people here take the mentality of "Well I know about it, so it MUST be common knowledge that everybody knows!"
Completely forgetting that there are 8 billion people on the planet, and something like 65k people on lemmy. Statistically speaking, this means basically nobody in the entire planet knows about lemmy, or the issues with lemmy.ml.
So for every NEW user, this is ALWAYS new info. It's not like facebook where I don't have an account, but already know zuck's a massive piece of shit.
The question is more "how many people on Lemmy know about the ml political stance"
Posts like this (https://feddit.org/post/3912054) with 205 comments show that most of the people are usually aware.
For new joiners, there is a post on !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca about this.
FWIW: I used join-lemmy.org and found lemmy.ml, submitted my registration, but then checked on Wikipedia and it says lemmy.world is the largest instance, so I wanted to cancel my registration for lemmy.ml (there's no such feature according to the admin). Anyway, that's how I ended up here on lemmy.world 😆
Did not notice any of the political leanings until just a few days ago, so it's definitely not obvious unless you look deeper into things.
You can have multiple accounts on multiple instances. In fact, I recommend it. No need to delete your ml account, just keep it as a backup or curate a different feed on it.
I'm way too lazy for that. I don't even have more than 1 email account. I use the same username everywhere lol...
As I said, you're new here.
I bring up the topic regularly on /r/Redditalternatives: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1fmuk7o/post_to_address_the_usual_criticism_about_lemmy/
Every time I mention Lemmy there, I point to discuss.online and sopuli.xyz: https://reddit.com/comments/1hxduw2/comment/m68fhsc
It is also part of a dedicated post on !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca : https://lemmy.world/post/21568033
We could probably improve its visibility.