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

  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.world
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    Lots of rude and hateful comments over here generating a ton of reports. Next time I’m issuing perma-bans for this kind of nonsense. Be respectful.

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    Sh.itjust.works is fine if you want to a mid-sized instance.

    I personally find DB0 to be a bit suspect (they tolerate and sometimes enable tankies).

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    To be honest since you can design everything by joining communities you like. I feel like it doesn’t matter

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      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

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            People probably don’t want to defederate the flagship instance owned by the devs of the software they’re using.

          • 𝕆𝕔𝕦𝕝𝕚@anarchist.nexus
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            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

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              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.

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            .ml isn’t significantly worse than hexbear, beehaw, or blahaj.

            All of them love censorship to support their narrative.

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    Well for anarchist/queer/pro-environment, Lemmy.dbzer0.com slrpnk.net and (kinda) Lemmy.blahaj.zone, not officially but tons of anarchists there.

    Another important thing to consider is federation policy (if you’re looking to make accounts there and not just browse comms from your current acc:)). For example Dbzer0 is the most lax and blahaj is the most moderated, not necessarily good or bad it just depends on what you personally want.

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        Just check each one’s sidebar and see what you like best :).

        Iirc there is a website for this yes, but i can’t get it right now, sorry. But off the top of my head, top to bottom: dbzer0,blahaj, solarpunk

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    I’d guess the one which seems that it will last more, since you can subscribe to communities of any other instance. You’ll only see a difference if you browse only local posts.

    In my case I chose infosec.pub because I want to browse it locally if I want, but my subscribed communities include memes and webcomics for some light time wasters.

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    Not the one you’re on.

    edit I answered based on the title and now I read the description. You might be on the right instance.

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        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.

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              Yes, I know that’s all you’ve got as far as lemmy.ml promoting transphobia goes.

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                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.

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                  For which you have precisely the same “evidence,” no more, no less.

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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.

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        the hard-line Democratic socialists all started migrating because communists upset them. I’m an anarchist and don’t mind it so I’m still here

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          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.

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            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

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            Why is that supposed to be an insult, I know nothing of tankie But was called one a couple days ago

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              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.

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                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.”

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                  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.

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                  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]”.

                  Thank you for proving my point!

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                I appreciate you for taking the time to explain this to me, mostly sounds like a term people used to other other people

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                  Pretty much it’s a thought-terminating othering. To label someone a tankie is to give license for prejudicially dismissing or ignoring what they say.

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          Were they hard-line demsocs, or were they really just “progressive” liberals?

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                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

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                  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.

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          That’s partially true, but not all true at all. Piefed development is way faster currently than Lemmy.

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          Personally, communists don’t bother me. Transphobic developers, however, don’t make me want to use their software.

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    I’m in a similar boat, though I’ve been present for some time.

    Dbzer0 seems like the best “fit” for me, but practically I just want the instance that’s not defederated/blocking other instances.

    …Not sure which that is. But I’d look at Piefed before Lemmy, since they work together, but Piefed seems more desirable feature-wise.

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    It says there are 200 comments but I can see 2. So my 2 cents, jump onto the easiest instance you can. For me, that was .world. Get on the boat, then reassess when you have more time.

    The first jump, reddit to Lemmy, is the hardest. The second is super easy in comparison.

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      That was my first instance before i decided to change. Ngl i prob shoulda stuck with world coz i do be a general purpose fam. Thats why i started piefed with the main instance

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      It says there are 200 comments but I can see 2

      This happens if other users have blocked you or your instance.

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    Worst part is they are all on cloudflare. I only found 2 that are not. they are feddit.fr and peifed.hlahaz

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    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.

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      IIRC a few instances are de-federated from .today due to how rightwing/conservative it is. So it’s a bit like shadowbanning yourself.

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        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.