Previous post here https://lemmy.zip/post/61844, reposting as the community had to move due to vlemmy.net closing.
Why I created another news community?
Spreading the communities to not all be centered around a few big instances. Just a few days ago lemmy.world
and lemmy.ml
were down at the same time, rendering biggest news communities inaccesible.
I also was sad to see that a lot of “World News” communities had an exclusion rule of a certain region. Which made no sesne to me.
- !globalnews@lemmy.zip
- Search
!globalnews@lemmy.zip
I’m personally a believer that it was because he didn’t want to deal with the potential legal trouble from federated content, but it really is a mystery.
Even if that’s the case, it doesn’t excuse just bailing without any warning or explanation. It was a shitty thing to do.
Oh, no disagreements there. It was very shitty and greatly inconvenienced a great many people, pyarra could have at least posted a goodbye post and given us a warning before abandoning the instance.