How did Lemmy.world become more popular than Lemmy.ml?

gylotip@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 470 points –

I don't understand how Lemmy.world developers managed to surpass both Lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org instances in user activity.

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Also because the political leanings of the lemmy.ml mods offended a lot of former redditors, including myself.

The lemmy devs are hardcore communists

Communists yes, communists no. Marxist Leninists aren't representative of all of socialism or all of communism. They'll tell you they are. As well as a lot of other things. Don't believe em. Capital C Communism is the noun they are most commonly identified by. But there are other types and scales of communism that are benign and often heavily disagree with Leninists. As a socialist myself I think debate is good, and tanks have no place in them. So I generally don't side much with ML or capitalists.

You may know all that stuff. But I know most don't due to the repressive censoring nature of capitalism. Which is the reason I mention it. Not to be pedantic or anything.

And why exactly did it do that? Their political stance has no part in the development or the management of the instance.

They delete any criticism of Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

And Russia is fascist/capitalist these days. The reactionary kneejerk is real.

I don't think it's true. There is even /c/Ukraine on ml.