There was a previous post on that community about Burggit shutting down, but because it just linked to the announcement without explaining any of the details it didn’t get a lot of attention or generate much discussion, with most of the comments simply consisting of “loli bad”.
So I made a post yesterday specifically focusing on the grievances with the Lemmy software that the Burggit admins brought up, and there were some interesting comments, with one of the Lemmy devs responding as well.
To summarize: Most of the instance admins who commented seem to agree that the Lemmy software is lacking and devs are rather slow with updates, others contend that coding moderation tools is difficult and boring, some recommend addons/tools that have been created by other devs to help with Lemmy, and some people say they’ve had few problems with their instances, or found easy workarounds to the known problems. Nutomic, one of the Lemmy devs, also says that many of the issues that have been brought up have either been solved or improved in more recent versions of Lemmy. Some users also discuss what’s reasonable to expect from the small dev team considering the current funding that they receive, and there’s a bit of bickering in there too.
People are still commenting on the post so I definitely recommend checking out the full thread to see how the discussion evolves.
the strong-arm bullying by popular instances was easily the most annoying thing about the “Lemmy-verse”. The auto-defederate list that those instances controlled was an obvious example of power-mad witch-hunting people being in charge. I’ve even heard once or twice of smaller instances being forced by the popular instances to follow their rules and subscribe to the list if they don’t want to be added to the list themselves.
I share your sentiment that Sharkey has been much more relaxed and fun! Only a week after I started using it, I stopped caring if Lemmy Burggit would even come back online. The users are more playful and friendly, and there’s none of that circlejerk/hivemind moderation cult over there. it helps a lot that sharkey itself feels much better put together than lemmy does. so with that, I too say goodbye to Lemmy, and hello to Sharkey.
Burggit is dead, long live Burggit!
https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/305019 saw itself being forced to change its rules despite content falling within their scope not having been posted at all.
Going back on my, “This is the last post I’m making on Burggit.” Already apparently, lol. This was something that I thought of covering, but ultimately decided not to, since I thought the post was long enough as it is. Thank you very much for bringing this up.
wow! that’s a concrete example of exactly what I mean. despicable behavior.
@diff@burggit.moe Fuck redditors. Lemmy for jump off in a brushfire. Misskey FOREVER!