I’m on one of my alts because my main instance (.today) had a hiccup - which rarely happens. Maybe twice in the last year, if I recall correctly.
I’ve tried five different instances. Lemmy.today doesn’t defederate from anyone so you can see the whole lemmyverse and curate your experience from there, instead of having admins decide what you should and shouldn’t see. The rules are standard but lax, bigots and abusers still get banned, but it’s largely up to the mods to watch over their communities.
Alternatively, if you like a healthy, pre-curated experience at the other end of the spectrum, you could try Beehaw. They’re more focused on creating an engaging, well-moderated, welcoming community.
Most are fine, there are a few right wing instances that crop up but most instances defederated from them fairly quickly (unless you’re on an “as long as it’s not illegal” instance, which include dbzer0, Lemmy.zip and lemmy.sdf.org)
The ones that are somewhat still federated but best to avoid are the ones known as the Tankie Triad, Hexbear Lemmygrad and Lemmy.ml.
Hex and grad are fairly widely defederated from, including your instance, because of their tankie authoritarian ideology (Supports and defends authoritarian countries like Russia and NK (they’ll spread propaganda like Ukraine deserved to be invaded by Russia and it’s not even Russia invading but “liberation”)).
Lemmy.ml tends to not be, because they try to keep it more subtle, there’s this mega thread that documents it. It’s lemmy.ml centric, but general rule of thumb is that whatever Lemmy.ml does hex and grad are known to be worse.
Most other instances are fine, .world…is just too big and that “power” has tended to go to their heads sometimes, though I will say not to the mass degree that Lemmy.ml does.
Oh and startrek.website is pretty shit, but you could tell that from this post LMAO
You’re on Lemmy.world which is a very large lib instance (very dem friendly, but highly sanitized). They have defederated with the leftests (hexbear.net, Lemmy.ml [the Lemmy dev’s home instance], and lemmygrad.ml) over “extreme views” and the anarchists (Lemmy.dbze0.com) over piracy support (oh my mistake, they just blocked all piracy communities) long time ago. I’ll let someone else explain the flotilla.
As for good instances, it depends what kind of experience you want to have. Why isn’t there an instance test yet?
You’re right. Its been so long since I’ve been on .world that i forgot. I think its also because so many comms are on there too if I remember. I should have known though because I see .worlders in YPTB complaining about .ml sometimes.
It’s not scare quotes, I’m representing that this was .world’s view.
And what hexbear was doing was interacting with the common reditor refugee after interacting with nothing but their leftest instance for years. It was a clash of cultures, and I think the right thing happened. I think that’s the great thing about the fediverse - being able to decide (as instance, comm, or user) who you interact with, which was what the tesseract dev was taking away from people.
Man I don’t even know what instance I’m on. Is there a good instance?
I’m on one of my alts because my main instance (.today) had a hiccup - which rarely happens. Maybe twice in the last year, if I recall correctly.
I’ve tried five different instances. Lemmy.today doesn’t defederate from anyone so you can see the whole lemmyverse and curate your experience from there, instead of having admins decide what you should and shouldn’t see. The rules are standard but lax, bigots and abusers still get banned, but it’s largely up to the mods to watch over their communities.
Alternatively, if you like a healthy, pre-curated experience at the other end of the spectrum, you could try Beehaw. They’re more focused on creating an engaging, well-moderated, welcoming community.
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Most are fine, there are a few right wing instances that crop up but most instances defederated from them fairly quickly (unless you’re on an “as long as it’s not illegal” instance, which include dbzer0, Lemmy.zip and lemmy.sdf.org)
The ones that are somewhat still federated but best to avoid are the ones known as the Tankie Triad, Hexbear Lemmygrad and Lemmy.ml.
Hex and grad are fairly widely defederated from, including your instance, because of their tankie authoritarian ideology (Supports and defends authoritarian countries like Russia and NK (they’ll spread propaganda like Ukraine deserved to be invaded by Russia and it’s not even Russia invading but “liberation”)). Lemmy.ml tends to not be, because they try to keep it more subtle, there’s this mega thread that documents it. It’s lemmy.ml centric, but general rule of thumb is that whatever Lemmy.ml does hex and grad are known to be worse.
Most other instances are fine, .world…is just too big and that “power” has tended to go to their heads sometimes, though I will say not to the mass degree that Lemmy.ml does.
Oh and startrek.website is pretty shit, but you could tell that from this post LMAO
You’re on Lemmy.world which is a very large lib instance (very dem friendly, but highly sanitized). They have defederated with the leftests (hexbear.net,
Lemmy.ml[the Lemmy dev’s home instance], and lemmygrad.ml) over “extreme views” andthe anarchists (Lemmy.dbze0.com) over piracy support(oh my mistake, they just blocked all piracy communities) long time ago. I’ll let someone else explain the flotilla.As for good instances, it depends what kind of experience you want to have. Why isn’t there an instance test yet?
World has never defederated from lemmy.ml, partially because they’re the dev’s home instance.
You’re right. Its been so long since I’ve been on .world that i forgot. I think its also because so many comms are on there too if I remember. I should have known though because I see .worlders in YPTB complaining about .ml sometimes.
nah, scare quotes can naff off. Hexbear was dogpiling like crazy and .ml is just…IDK what they’re doing over there but everyone’s banned from it.
It’s not scare quotes, I’m representing that this was .world’s view.
And what hexbear was doing was interacting with the common reditor refugee after interacting with nothing but their leftest instance for years. It was a clash of cultures, and I think the right thing happened. I think that’s the great thing about the fediverse - being able to decide (as instance, comm, or user) who you interact with, which was what the tesseract dev was taking away from people.
Hexbear was never federated with world, to paraphrase worlds words they were “preemptively defederated as a last resort”
Agreed.
I still get lemmy ml , maybe because I’m on sync, but I’ve blocked it several times.