Just browse the All feed and subscribe to the stuff you like. At this point many instances block .ml and hexbear, so you'll be fine.
It's grad and hex that most instances defed from, .ml is more subtle and hosts a number of official Lemmy software support forums, so not many do defed from them. Unfortunately.
May I ask what those instances are? I’m assuming .ml is Marxist Leninism (mask off) but idk what hexbear is. Are there any instances which are specific to my interests such as anime and music?
Update: it seems that hexbear.net is back to hosting hexbear.net.
ani.social seems like it may specialise in anime stuff. I blocked several of their communities in grounds of not labelling nsfw. That's about as much as I know.
The problem is definition of NSFW is different for all Lemmy user. One time I posted a Official Art of !nokotan@ani.social and it got reported for not labelling NSFW. That pic doesn't even have any thing like Fanservice or Showing Clothes. Just normal School Uniform.
"If the 65 year old HR worker would take a second glance, it's Not Safe For Work."
So a gay couple kissing is NSFW and a straight one is fine? That’s what a 65 yo HR worker would say in my experience.
But, I never understand. Why would anyone use Lemmy or any social media at work? I am Teen. So, really asking.
NSFW stands for "not safe for work" - the label literally exists so that users know what to avoid to make the service usable at work without risk of getting fired over it.
And why wouldn't you want to use it at work? Breaks are a thing, many people try to spend them trying to recharge by doing something that takes them out of the work mindset for a bit, and Lemmy is perfect for that.
Yes. It's not really exclusively about work, though. It applies to families, public transit, anywhere someone might see your screen. It's not a nudity or gore tag, but a sort of inoffensively presentable content tag. The office screen mentality is just a good way to get the right idea across.
Also, "better safe than sorry" is a good mentality. It's better to over tag than under.
You have to be 18 to access lemmy.world (which this thread is on) per Rule #3 of their ToS BTW. That's technically still a teenager so maybe you are of-age, but wanted to mention it.
I am on lemm.ee which allow user over 16. So, I am safe I guess? It doesn't even matter I am gonna Turn 18 this July.
This particular thread is hosted on lemmy.world and you must be 18+ to access it.
So, What .world gonna ban me? They don't have any proof that I am a teenager or just 40 Year Old Man who was roleplaying as a teenager on Internet? Who knows? Banning is also pointless I can create 10 different account on Lemmy. So they can't make me stop using Lemmy. It's already been 1.5 Years now. I had a account .world at first then I moved to lemm.ee.
Hexbear was worse, very pro China/Russia/North Korea, but I think they didn't renew their domain license, so the server went down. Lemmygrad is the same way, I think it's still active. .ml I didn't think is too bad, just block yogthos or whether their name is.
I’ve found it easier to block ML communities. A lot of the people on ML aren’t that bad, but you WILL get banned from the entirety of ML for any criticism of russia china and north korea. The mods really aren’t scared to abuse their power. I’d rather not participate.
hexbear.net is still the domain, it's actually really chill unless you're freelancing for USAID
Not when I tried to talk when them a year ago. So much shilling for authoritarianism.
any support I've seen has been critical, lib instances often straight up uncritically support US empire and call that anti-authoritarianism
We're not taking about the US, we're talking about China Russia and North Korea. When I asked why Russia was justified in invading Ukraine, I got dozens of people arguing with me that it was good actually. If you agree with them, then I don't really have much more to talk with you about, you're just wrong.
I don’t really have much more to talk with you about, you’re just wrong.
From checking the modlog you got banned like two years ago because you couldn't stop saying slurs and insulting people. Additionally you clearly support the israeli occupation under the banner of being 'anti-authoritarian', the sentiment is mutual.
I think they consider tankie a slur, so that's probably it. I didn't see the mod logs, so thanks for looking it up.
I don't support Israel in Gaza, what gave you that impression? Anyway, do you think Russia's invasion of Ukraine was justified?
it was this comment of yours:
And you got from that that I support Israel in their genocide?!? Both sides can be terrible and have gross humanitarian and moral issues.
If you're both-sideing a genocide you have picked a side.
That isn't how logic works. What are you arguing? That every action of Hamas ever was entirely good and justified?
The tankies are concentrated on three main instances so basically you can either block those completely or just don’t participate in any communities on them. Some do visit the non-politics coms there but I think they always end up interpreting things in a political lens so I avoid them all.
The instances are Lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and Hexbear.net.
Actually a lot of the more debate-bro tankies tend to make alts elsewhere to argue. By blocking the big three (if they're federate), you're usually just avoiding the ones who are not very argumentative and of course all the campist-flavored topics which might be annoying.
I find it easier to block the communities. I’d rather not post content on an instance where I’ll be banned for calling China capitalist lol
Yea, but unfortunately the admins and mods of the Tankie Triad are the biggest Tankies around and enforce that through (ironic, because they always complain about censorship) mod action
So the best course of action, if you're not on an instance that defed's from them, is to not reward their comms with activity. A total boycott, no posts, no comments, no upvotes. With a little luck, all the non-tankie users will gradually shift over
Ran into several fresh accounts this week alone. TankieTanuki and something with "Stalin" in the name were the more obvious ones (I say like a random hours old account complaining about NATO in two separate threads and nothing else isn't obvious).
Yeah I don’t personally do that but I’m just presenting the options. It doesn’t bother me to interact with tankies I just hate their censored safe spaces rife with misinformation.
I think @Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com has a list of ML comm replacements somewhere.
here's a good list of communities I came across today, subbed to a bunch myself
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/17176543
as everyone else has said most instances are chill but avoid the tankie triad
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