It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on?

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• Wren@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Browsing /subscribed only is definitely the way.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • Wren@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Last I checked .today was defederated from 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. I came here to start a community posting independent media, this seemed like the most unbiased instance at the time.

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• kbal@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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).

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• nebajoth@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  none. join a piefed instance instead.

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  • SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    is there an introduction to piefed instances anywhere? what happened to lemmy that caused ppl to migrate to piefed?

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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    • Diva@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      the hard-line Democratic socialists all started migrating because communists upset them

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    • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      join.piefed.social/try/ has a list. There just arn’t that many yet but anarchist.nexus is a solid choice.

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• unruffled@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nearly all of that is just a few people flaming out when a communist comments in “their” internet spaces.

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  • Qwel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• davel@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    blahajnis very welcome toward anarchism and democratic socialism, it’s hostile towards authoritarian regimes

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  • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • sephallen@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are actual socialists here! We just aren’t as loud as the tankies.

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  • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hexbear is basically only blocks lemmy.world

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

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    • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh yeah you’re probably right. Last time I checked that was true.

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  • nothrone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait, why does lemmy.ml block infosec.pub, lemmy.cafe and programming.dev? All these seem innocuous?

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    • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It doesn’t block them; they block it.

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• oculi@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is there an overview of the rules for all three instances? And which one is the most popular?

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    • oculi@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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• Saltycracker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • oculi@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Endorsements? https://gui.fediseer.com maybe?

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• Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sh.itjust.works has been rumoured to have fascist views…

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    • dudesss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Its run by the Fedecan folks who run lemmy.ca and piefed.ca

      fedecan.ca/en/

      I saw no indication of facism lol. Where did you hear this rumor?

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think you should educate yourself a bit more on the subject

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    • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Please indulge me, my well educated friend.

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• TragicNotCute@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lots of rude and hateful comments over here generating a ton of reports. Next time I’m issuing bans for this kind of nonsense. Be respectful.

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• lorski@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Auth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  probably lemmy.ml

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  • SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lol no

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    • sephallen@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We’re not all bad here!

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  • alzjim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s the 3rd worst?

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Check out slrpnk.net! Environmentalist, anarchist-leaning, very inclusive, with excellent admins and renewable-energy-powered servers.

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• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You know what’s nice? That we have this option at all. I’m partial to sdf, piefed, and world myself.

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• Minimac@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I really like Lemmy than Reddit because it smooth and no ad disturb!

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• TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • oculi@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do other instances defederate with them, though?

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• url@feddit.fr ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • oculi@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    iirc Lemmy.dbzer0.com isn’t either.

    Our dear wrench monkey , tenchiken, is working on moving anarchist.nexus off cloudflare too, nice

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• Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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• vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not the one you’re on.

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• myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Join multiple for when you get banned in some sub.

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  • url@feddit.fr ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And donate some money. Don’t waste resources

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• gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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  • c0dezer0@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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