Submitted 4 hours ago by SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone to 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
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?
join.piefed.social/try/ has a list. There just arn’t that many yet but anarchist.nexus is a solid choice.
the hard-line Democratic socialists all started migrating because communists upset them
I joined Lemmy.today to see what it’s like to see all the instances, they don’t block anyone. I expected chaos, but it’s just 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.
Browsing /subscribed only is definitely the way.
Check out slrpnk.net! Environmentalist, anarchist-leaning, very inclusive, with excellent admins and renewable-energy-powered servers.
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
i no longer like lemmy blahaj…. cause i like piefed blahaj 💙
If you like Blahaj the 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).
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. 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.
Is there an overview of the rules for all three instances? And which one is the most popular?
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
I really like Lemmy than Reddit because it smooth and no ad disturb!
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?
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.
There’s a couple of places you can look with info on the instances. I like the admins of my instance but I’ll be moving to their piefed instance instead.
Quick googling: join-lemmy.org/instances github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
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).
Sh.itjust.works has been rumoured to have fascist views…
I think you should educate yourself a bit more on the subject
Please indulge me, my well educated friend.
davel@lemmy.ml 56 minutes 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], and few instances are defederated from it. The only ones defederated from 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 defederated from lemmy.world, and lemmygrad is only defederated from porn and fascist instances.
[^1]: For instance, hilariouschaos, the successor to explodingheads.