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submitted 3 days ago by SidTheShuckle to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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

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[-] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] unruffled@anarchist.nexus 17 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] Qwel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah. Yikes.

The advice is decent actually. It's the non-advice comments that should just be deleted. Even the advice from that .ml guy is careful. Wouldn't have caused any issue if someone didn't pick the fight while fully aware that there will not be a resolution.

[-] lorski@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

This thread is wild. I am good on Lemmy. I like sopuli.xyz

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] oculi@anarchist.nexus 3 points 1 day ago

Lemmy.sdf.org and lemmy.zip have very lax defederation policies, those might interest you

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[-] Wren@lemmy.today 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

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[-] kbal@fedia.io 34 points 2 days ago

It's hard to guess why you're dissatisfied with blahaj.zone. Far as I know it still has a good reputation.

[-] SidTheShuckle 28 points 2 days ago

If blahaj.zone is still great then im proud to be on this instance :3 im just exploring other options in case

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago

i no longer like lemmy blahaj.... cause i like piefed blahaj 💙

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[-] nebajoth@piefed.ca 30 points 2 days ago

none. join a piefed instance instead.

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[^1]: For instance, hilariouschaos, the successor to explodingheads.

[-] froufox 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

blahaj is very welcome toward anarchism and democratic socialism, it's hostile towards authoritarian regimes

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[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago

Hexbear is basically only blocks lemmy.world

Hexbear runs an allowlist, they only federate with instances they select.

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