• bestboyfriendintheworld
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    10 hours ago

    One issue with alternative smaller platforms can also be them becoming cesspools of users banned from the big platform. The first couple of Reddit alternatives quickly collected the racists and jailbait porn.

    A viable alternative platform needs more than extremist niches.

    • ArchRecord@lemm.ee
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      8 hours ago

      Too true. The first lemmy instance I signed up for shut itself down without warning within a week of me signing up because they’d accidentally federated with a CP instance and their country’s government could have ended up putting the instance’s owner in jail for it.