I haven’t checked Lemmy for a long time but I wanna get off Reddit again, yet I still need to know how many users are on here. Which lemmy instances are suitable to me, the most popular, and which ones to avoid? For context, im queer, anarchist with DemSoc leaning, and environmentalist. Is there a comprehensive list of all the instances and their main functions? Is the instance I’m on still workable? Any feedback would help, thx. <3
I joined Lemmy.today to see all the instances, they don’t block anyone. I expected chaos, but it’s richer. To be fair, I rarely browse ‘All,’ instead sticking to subscribed coms where the backwards-speaking wanderers from hexbear are more of a feature than a bug.
Now it’s my main account.
PR Edit: I meant no offense to the good people of hexbear, I’m just confused by your ways.
IIRC a few instances are de-federated from .today due to how rightwing/conservative it is. So it’s a bit like shadowbanning yourself.
Edit: Just checked, Lemmy.Today isn’t blocked by any instances.
Last I checked .today was defederated by one instance, don’t know why.I’m open to more info.The description and the rules are boilerplate, no bigotry or transphobia kind of thing. The admins have been helpful and responsive. I can see why conservatives would join an instance like this, but there’s nothing inherently conservative about it.
When I joined the most-visited local community was conservative, but they’re pretty tame by right wing standards. A couple of the mods posted left-leaning articles to my community, too.
I don’t pay attention to a lot of Lemmy drama unless it crosses my feed, so I could be wrong.
The rules on Lemmy.ml are innocuous too, fwiw.
I’m honestly embarrassed by the comments on this post. Is this really the best advice we can offer a newcomer to Lemmy? This internecene warfare between instances is not doing us any favours.
Nearly all of that is just a few people flaming out when suspected communists comment in “their” internet spaces, even when those comments weren’t particularly about communism.
blahaj isn’t particularly hostile toward anarchism or democratic socialism, I don’t think, but it’s largely a liberal instance. It’s defederated from hexbear & lemmygrad, so a lot of socialist content is blocked.
dbzer0 is explicitly anarchist. It blocks lemmygrad but not hexbear.
slrpnk is anarchist-friendly and environmentalist. It blocks both hexbear & lemmygrad.
lemmy.ml is predominantly socialist. It’s federated with everyone except for porn and fascist instances[1]. The only instances that block it that I can only think of are infosec.pub, lemmy.cafe, and programming.dev.
Quite a few instances are defederated from lemmygrad and/or hexbear. Hexbear is basically only blocks lemmy.world, and lemmygrad only blocks porn and fascist instances.
For instance, hilariouschaos, the successor to explodingheads. ↩︎
lemmy.ml is predominantly socialist.
Saying ML is socialist (which it’s not, it’s a tankie instance) is de facto discrediting socialism.
It’s like saying that socialists oppose any criticism of russia and china (authoritarian, imperialist, hyper-capitalist oligarchic countries that have nothing to do with socialism) and socialist only read Russia Today.
There are actual socialists here! We just aren’t as loud as the tankies.
none. join a piefed instance instead.
is there an introduction to piefed instances anywhere? what happened to lemmy that caused ppl to migrate to piefed?
the hard-line social democrats all started migrating because communists upset them. I’m an anarchist and don’t mind it so I’m still here
Were they hard-line demsocs, or were they really just “progressive” liberals?
I’m probably being too generous, but they do tend to identify as that
The bots are talking to themselves, oh no
Not everyone opposed to trans people being in sports is a bigot.
Yep, I’m a bigot because I don’t want people taking steroids in sports.
-Jax@sh.itjust.works
Did you think that this was a gotcha?
I’m going to give myself time to look through your comments on my flight. It will be amusing watching the so called “anarchist” swiftly devolve into an authoritarian.
You cultists sure do love your buzzwords.
How many times do you think you’ve said death to America, by the way? I’ll have a count for you by the end of my flight.
Edit: ooh the direct quote of the day
The U.S. did deserve 9/11 though
Yeah. I’m sure this gets worse, and I haven’t even spent longer than 30 seconds looking. You should probably keep the fact that you’re ‘trans’ to yourself, if Lemmy were a bigger platform you would 100% be painting the picture of the ‘mentally ill trans person’ rhetoric the conservatives are pushing. You are literally problematic in your existence.
Nah, you’re a tankie.
You can easily find Anarchists on PieFed either on Quokk.au or Anarchist.Nexus though for anyone who wants to join us.
name calling is pretty rude, believe it or not it’s possible to be an anarchist and not use one of your instances. for me I find plenty of other anarchists in my day to day organizing, separate from the internet
Some rightwing/centrists like to use it to insult any leftist. You can just ignore those ones.
oh, noted
Why is that supposed to be an insult, I know nothing of tankie But was called one a couple days ago
Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia. That became the default term for anyone who supports brutal authoritarian states that suppress the people to assert their control. In modern day context a tankie would be someone who blames Ukraine for being invaded and denies the genocide of the Uyghurs.
Some rightwing/centrists like to use it to insult any leftist. You can just ignore those ones.
I appreciate you for taking the time to explain this to me, mostly sounds like a term people used to other other people
Pretty much it’s a thought-terminating othering. To label someone a tankie is to give license for prejudicially dismissing them.
It’s more of a term to point out that someone is the left equivalent of a Neo Nazi.
Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia.
I wouldn’t call fascists or CIA- & bourgeois-backed counterrevolutionaries “civilians.”
- JFK Files Reveal CIA Role in the 1956 Hungarian Uprising The tankies were right
- The 1968 Prague Spring — Counterrevolution as the “Trojan Horse” of Imperialism
- The blueprint of regime change operations - How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
I wouldn’t call fascists or CIA- & bourgeois-backed counterrevolutionaries “civilians.”
Fucking hilarious that you whine about the term tankie sounding “othering” to you and then shamelessly trot this line out.
No one buys your tankie gibberish!
I said it before (in this thread) and I will say it again:
ML are basically on par with Nazis; full endorsement of extermination of national identity/language/culture of “bad” ethnicities, support for russian Lebensraum, support for mass internment camps for “bad” ethnicities.
Dessalines, an American, has never lived in Ukraine or russia, doesn’t speak Ukrainian or russian and yet he comes up with bullshit like “putin just wants to show he means business” or “war is war, civilian casualties are fine [as long as it’s Ukrainians]”.
You never had any friends from Hungary or Czesh Republic, you’ve never been there.
The USSR was total trash. Abject poverty, genocidal extermination of the cultrue and language of occupied nations, KGB goons in universities and a corrupt leadership that makes the current oligarch/criminal look like good guys. You’ve likely never met anyone who lived in the USSR.
Thank you for proving my point!
Personally, communists don’t bother me. Transphobic developers, however, don’t make me want to use their software.
We didn’t want to be lending any form of support to developers who deny genocide and promote transphobia.
So we found a more ethical solution and than it turns out the developers are fucking amazing and it’s progressing so fast that it’s leaving Lemmy in the dust. Many people are now moving because it’s offering features and improvements that the Lemmy devs refused to.
Accusations of genocide denial isn’t the cheat code you think it is, or do you not deny the genocide of white South Africans? And what say you to this one? Previously.
And if accusations of promoting transphobia held any water, blahaj & hexbear would have already defederated from us.
More countries doing a genocide is not an argument against another one doing it
Woosh
No, I don’t think so
Q.E.D.
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Wait, THIS is what people are talking about when they say the devs are transphobic?
The dev admitting he said stupid shit in private, supports human rights for everyone, and his personal views should have nothing to do with his work?
Consider the first rule of the Lemmy code of Conduct is:
We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of level of experience, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other similar characteristic.
Yes, I know that’s all you’ve got as far as lemmy.ml promoting transphobia goes.
You are making this about Lemmy.ml to change the subject from this being about the Lemmy devs themselves. You like to deflect a lot I’ve noticed.
For which you have precisely the same “evidence,” no more, no less.
Don’t argue with idiots. It’s never worth it.
It’s hard to guess why you’re dissatisfied with blahaj.zone. Far as I know it still has a good reputation.
If blahaj.zone is still great then im proud to be on this instance :3 im just exploring other options in case
If you like Blahaj then there is also a Piefed Blahaj instance now! I like Piefed over lemmy, I don’t know if they’ve added it to lemmy since I left but I really like being able to mute replies. It has other features lemmy lacks too, like being able to block an entire instance or make feeds (multireddit like function).
ooh is there a list of piefed instances from most popular to most endorsements? And specifically ones that tailor to solarpunk/anarchism/lgbtq+? i wonder why everyone shifted to piefed? is it because one of the lemmy devs had a controversial past?
People just like it better. You’re probably overthinking these things. The point of federation is so that these decisions don’t matter as much. (Almost) all the instances are connected and sharing the same community and content. There is no magic “best” place to be, and if there is, it won’t be because it’s “popular” it will be because it’s “the right one for you”.
Some instances have rules and some instances have toxic developers like the ones at .ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad. I dont wanna be near them
To be honest since you can design everything by joining communities you like. I feel like it doesn’t matter
I would like to know which ones are tailored to my interests, so i dont wanna join something like .ml. I remember there used to be a sheet somewhere with endorsements but i cant find it anymore
Endorsements? https://gui.fediseer.com/ maybe?
Interesting tool.
How is that ML only has two censures:
https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.ml
ML is a tankie instance.
Also fascinating to see DB0 giving an endorsement to ML. Not surprising though.
.ml isn’t significantly worse than hexbear, beehaw, or blahaj.
All of them love censorship to support their narrative.
Censuring completely defederates an instance (at least with threativore) and most instances aren’t defederated with ml anyway, so this makes sense:)
It has recieved two hesitations tho, which are like censures but without defederation
Ah I see. I didn’t realize a censure had a technical component. That being said, by this point not much would be lost with a defederation from ML.
Still a mere two hesitations and tons of endorsements (including DB0).
ML are basically on par with Nazis; full endorsement of extermination of national identity/language/culture of “bad” ethnicities, support for russian Lebensraum, support for mass internment camps for “bad” ethnicities.
Sure, they deny this, but from memory all of the Nazis at Nuremberg pleaded not guilty.
