I’ve slowly become familiar with lemmy and learned the things like blahajj is an ally of trans but hides downvotes and kbin shows how you vote to others etcetc. i don’t even know what hexbear is but hear it’s ideologically wonky.
Lots of Lemmy instances basically have some decent aspects, but then something about them is a total dealbreaker.
I’ve started looking at moderation histories when coming across content removed by moderators and am now able to distinguish instances where ideologies not aligned with their admins get censored. I first noticed it when checking why certain posts were removed on Lemmy.ml and had to research lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don’t want. I had a run in with a drama on Lemmy.world and curiously checked their mod log to realize that they actually quite often remove comments that don’t match their ideology (along with finding controversial historical actions of .world).
So after all this getting to know instances involved in lemmy, you know which one has no weird dealbreaker attributes that I know of? I just realized tonight which one it is…
sh.itjust.works
So cheers everyone.
Admins and Mods here you are doing great. Community, you are doing great too. grats on being the best instance
I came here since Reddit killed third party apps, so I don’t even remember how I chose my instance anymore. I guess someone recommended sh.itjust.works somewhere? Tbh I don’t know a lot of the differences between instances (except some well known ones like tankie .ml), but I have no complaints about this instance I’m on. Although I’m not really super active, in all fairness.
Oh god, that username lol… MY EYES
In Thunder, you can disable display names. All I see is “allo”.
My only requirements for an instance are:
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It works
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It’s not run by or full of fascists
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It’s furry
There were two choices. Now there is one. Thankfully the other one only fails item 1.
But this instance is cool, too. And db0.
Db0 is pretty fucking dope ngl. Their piracy megathread alone brings them over the top. The lack of censorship is just icing on the cake.
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To be honest I don’t like their name so I’ve been avoiding it just for that reason
sopuli is chill
hexbear is but hear it’s ideologically wonky.
Understatement of the year LMAO
lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don’t want.
Uh nah, they’re tankies, they’re authoritarian communists essentially
they’re authoritarian communists essentially
With an utterly broken sense of what is or isn’t communism or socialism. So many of them still going to bat for Russia, which has objectively not been socialist since the wall fell, and arguably long before that.
State socialists, if you like. It’s an oxymoron, but some still seem to choose it.
They’re “Free slaves”
Doublethink is required to actually digest their rhetoric.
I get indigestion every time I try. I guess I’m allergic to doublethink…
uh I just picked lemmy.ml pretty randomly when I moved from Reddit, though I specifically picked it over lemmygrad because I’d heard lemmygrad was full of tankies. personally, I’m a left libertarian. I’m not auth at all.
I think you might be overestimating how much a user’s home lemmy indicates their ideology.
There’s heavy handed moderation in .ml communities that people hold big grudges about, and that’s mostly about it.
.ml is a tankie instance not because of the bulk of the users, I do not judge any user, .ml or otherwise, until I have seen them or seen evidence of them commenting Tankie ideology or defending it.
.ml is deemed a tankie instance because the admins and many of the mods not only are hardcore tankies themselves but also enforce the ideology throughout their instance via admin/mod action
.ml is the most subtle of the Tankie Triad and because they host some official Lemmy support comms often get treated with “kid gloves” by the other instances and don’t get defed’d from like the rest of the tankie triad does (Hexbear and Lemmygrad)
Checkout [email protected] if you want to see more
Actually, because the .ml admins block that comm so you can’t see it, you’ll need to use this link through another instance: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
Hey now, get down offa your soapbox cm0002! Don’t let your passion derail the thread now…
<3
No, it’s definitely full of tankies. I got banned for calling someone out for saying, “You have to give Donald Trump credit for brokering peace in Israel” about a week or so ago (I just followed-up with them yesterday after Israel, shockingly, shattered that ceasefire, and I’ve been ignored).
Maybe not all of the mods/admins, but enough that someone will ban you for going against the Russian narrative.
Shit just works, it’s in the name.
Shhhh it just works
All votes are public on lemmy, no matter what instance. It’s how federation works.
There’s at least one server that uses dummy accounts for vote federation to keep the voters anonymous.
Lemm.ee is great too. It’s just… there. And I love it
Its great. I definitely got lucky when i randomly picked it back during the migration.
Zip as well. We’re just…exists.
I know yous as the instance that’s a little broken in the UK
Yet for some reason works through a client but not via the website. But yes, alas the UK, I knew it well
sopuli.xyz and feddit.org are also pretty decent IMO.
It’s a chill instance. 10/10 admins!
I don’t mind sh.itjust.works, but it has a distinct younger bias. Lemmy in general lacks a lot of diverse depth, but that is a byproduct of size.
For someone a little older than most on sh.itjust.works, the tendency towards more shallow and emotional interactions is not the best for me in social isolation from physical disability. It is hard to discern the age, intentions, and depth of people based on a few sentences here and there.
If Beehaw had remained federated with most, that is where I am most aligned. I stay on LW because of mod communities and the Alexandrite front end is my favorite. I have accounts on most instances and have tried using some of them for stretches. My main thing is that I honestly try to always show the best intentions and act in good faith. If I see moderators or Admin in my interactions something is fundamentally wrong. The average person, like this, should never see admin or mods actions. From that perspective, I have no issues with LW. I don’t always agree with Admin and I know at least one doesn’t agree with me, but that kind of diversity is fine with me. I see the good and the bad of capitalism and tankies. In both cases I am anti authoritarian. I know I don’t have all the answers but I am damn sure that neither does anyone else.
I don't think there is a perfect instance because we are all a spectrum of differences, but I'm glad you have a perfect home for you Allo.
;-)
I’ve found Blahaj to be a great instance, though if you don’t like queer shit then you best stay away.
I tried Shitjustworks, Beehaw and Blahaj out for a few weeks and have found myself gravitating toward Blahaj.
There are quite a few old farts on SJW as well.
Source: am one
And some people in the middle. Source: am one.
Am another one.
i always appreciate your comments
hey, that’s my girlfriend Sai Lormoon! where did you get her photo?!
as a shit user i think shit is the best instance for no reason in particular at all
It’s the most popular no-bullshit instance.
Why would you care about people seeing how you vote? Have courage in your convictions
I don’t need people seeing my sick habits (cat memes)
