DonaldJMusk

Agreed.

Definitely some bad actors out there though. There's a guy opening several accounts under my name. Luckily so far, most of the instances are pretty good at taking him down when I bring it up. Except .world of course. They ignored all my messages. lol

So yeah, there is a Donald J. Musk on .world: @donaldjmusk@lemmy.world. Not me tho! :)

Right? I just use Lemmy has a hobby and shitpost here and there. Some people are taking this way too seriously

Sucks that he stepped away. But since he's not running it any more, then good riddance

IMO the best approach is to just embrace the transience of the fediverse - that’s it’s strength. Instances are easy come easy go. Have multiple accounts on multiple instances and change them according to your mood.

Yep, this is the right mindset.

Yep, Ella was totally on board with giving the conservative community over to that troll. But I notice they haven't posted in two months. So maybe they are one of the admins stepping away from it because of stress?

So to be honest, I'm sorta celebrating Lemm.ee's demise. Just like they celebrated ruining the conservative community.

It's been hilarious watching people searching for a new instance saying they want an instance as "open" as Lemm.ee was. lol

Yep. The anti-semitism I am seeing on here lately is troubling as well. Funny for a platform that is so quick to call everyone Nazis are starting to treat Jewish people like, well....like the Nazis did.

Worse than shutting down, they let it be taken over by an anti-conservative troll and turned into a joke meme community. I blocked them after that. So until your post, I had no idea they were shutting down. lol

Ella was a well-known admin there but they haven't posted in last two months, so I don't know if they are still around or not.

Yeah, I don't think Lemmy is gonna grow much larger than it is now. Basically we exclude half of the US, and any other population with conservative people. The censorship has grown worse than reddit. It's harder to join than reddit. So yeah, Lemmy is probably at it's peak population now.

I still like it more than reddit, but it's not super welcoming to diverse opinions.

Exactly! I'm sad that he left, I'm not sad that Lemm.ee is going away. They stopped believing in diversity of opinions.

they banned the conservative community

Worse than that, they let a troll take it over and turn it into an anti-conservative community. And they knew he was gonna do that that.

I'm all for someone making an anti-conservative community, just make your own new community. Don't take over an existing conservative community do to that. That's high-level censorship.

I'm not sad to see them go at all after how that all went down.

Before that BS, the sub was decent. But it went to shit real quick around that time.

Oh wow! That's crazy. But yeah, you're right, it wasn't the same after the new people took over.

I guess the conservative community there--that they let get taken over by a troll and turned into a joke community--wasn't really the thing they should have been concentrating on. They were so busy shutting down anyone who was a conservative, that they lost sight of what Lemmy is really about about.

So after what they let happen to the conservative community and how they treated conservatives there, I don't feel bad at all that they are shutting down. Never super awesome when a lemmy instance goes down, but they didn't believe in a diversity of voices and opinion, became way to censor-happy, and now they are shutting dwon.

I say good riddance. :)