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
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.
This thread is wild. I am good on Lemmy. I like sopuli.xyz
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.
Lemmy.sdf.org and lemmy.zip have very lax defederation policies, those might interest you
Do other instances defederate with them, though?
lemmy.today is federated both ways with pretty much all of Lemmy, from .world to tankie triad to beehaw
AFAIK no. Lemmy.zip is not problematic and SDF largely stays in the background.
I tried to verify this but the only tool for this stuff, defed.xyz, seems to have shut down 4 months ago, shame.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It says there are 200 comments but I can see 2
This happens if other users have blocked you or your instance.
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
Join multiple for when you get banned in some sub.
And donate some money. Don’t waste resources
Not the one you’re on.
edit I answered based on the title and now I read the description. You might be on the right instance.
Worst part is they are all on cloudflare. I only found 2 that are not. they are feddit.fr and peifed.hlahaz
iirc Lemmy.dbzer0.com isn’t either.
Our dear wrench monkey , tenchiken, is working on moving anarchist.nexus off cloudflare too, nice
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 💙
I tried piefed.blahaj but with the images being auto expanded by default there’s way too much questionable anime.
More recent versions of piefed should have a much improved compact mode. I basically made the thumbnails for image posts render just like thumbnails for link posts when in compact mode. It was a pet peeve of mine too that compact mode said it was thumbnails, but it still put images on a whole separate line which made them much larger than other thumbnails.
PBZ is on 1.3.0 now, so it should be available if you want to give it another go. Just make sure that your UI option is set to compact mode. This setting is per-device, so you might need to reset it for different browsers/phone/etc.
If you like Blahaj then 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).
I can do both of those with Lemmy. Maybe it’s per app? Summit on Android allows both instance blocking and feeds.
That sounds like an app extending Lemmy’s featureset. I cannot do those on boost… that I’m aware of.
ooh is there a list of piefed instances from most popular to most endorsements? And specifically ones that tailor to solarpunk/anarchism/lgbtq+? i wonder why everyone shifted to piefed? is it because one of the lemmy devs had a controversial past?
I have an alt on https://quokk.au/, there’s also https://anarchist.nexus/.
ooh is there a list of piefed instances from most popular to most endorsements?
There’s a built-in instance list on piefed when you click on “register”. It’s sorted by server speed. The most popular must be piefed.social.
And specifically ones that tailor to solarpunk/anarchism/lgbtq+?
In reverse order, piefed.blahaj.zone for a lgbtq+ instance, and anarchist.nexus as well as quokk.au for anarchist ones. @povoq@slrpnk.net mentioned the possibility of a solarpunk piefed instance in the past, but it’s yet to become something concrete.
i wonder why everyone shifted to piefed? is it because one of the lemmy devs had a controversial past?
I think it’s half because piefed has more features, develops faster than lemmy, and half because the lemmy devs are pricks (one being a transphobe, and the other not being all that bothered by it).
@povoq@slrpnk.net mentioned the possibility of a solarpunk piefed instance in the past, but it’s yet to become something concrete.
We don’t plan to setup a separate Piefed instance, but we want to migrate our main Lemmy instance to Piefed sometimes early next year, but there are still some unknowns if the migration will be feasible or not.
If you go here you can sort by size, uptime, etc, I’m not sure if anyone has made a curated list anywhere. There’s only a few instances with 100+ users, but since you’re seeing all the same fediverse content anyway it doesn’t matter much. My policy was to just pick an instance I trusted (already trusted Blahaj, so that was easy).
I would say it’s probably a good idea to pick an instance with at least 30-40 people, because the more people who have subscribed to remote communities, the more content will automatically federate to the instance (therefor making it easier for you to find new content).
+1 for more fellow PieFeds
People just like it better. You’re probably overthinking these things. The point of federation is so that these decisions don’t matter as much. (Almost) all the instances are connected and sharing the same community and content. There is no magic “best” place to be, and if there is, it won’t be because it’s “popular” it will be because it’s “the right one for you”.
Some instances have rules and some instances have toxic developers like the ones at .ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad. I dont wanna be near them
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.
Browsing /subscribed only is definitely the way.
IIRC a few instances are de-federated from .today due to how rightwing/conservative it is. So it’s a bit like shadowbanning yourself.
Edit: Just checked, Lemmy.Today isn’t blocked by any instances.
Last I checked .today was defederated by 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.
The rules on Lemmy.ml are innocuous too, fwiw.
As are the rules of most instances.
so using the rules as a metric is like the points on who’s line
Let’s examine that.
The points on Who’s Line don’t matter, as a rule - but they do matter because they give the rankings at the end of the show. If the points really didn’t matter, we wouldn’t know about them. “Points” wouldn’t be a subject on the show, and yet they come up at the end of every skit. One person even tallied them up. The points mattered to them, a lot.
Anyway, do you have information or were you just itching to make that quip?
beep boop
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?
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.
Thanks for the explanation.
Now I know to stick with lemmy.
Accusations of genocide denial isn’t the cheat code you think it is, or do you not deny the genocide of white South Africans? And what say you to this one? Previously.
And if accusations of promoting transphobia held any water, blahaj & hexbear would have already defederated from us.
More countries doing a genocide is not an argument against another one doing it
Woosh
No, I don’t think so
Q.E.D.
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Wait, THIS is what people are talking about when they say the devs are transphobic?
The dev admitting he said stupid shit in private, supports human rights for everyone, and his personal views should have nothing to do with his work?
Consider the first rule of the Lemmy code of Conduct is:
We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of level of experience, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other similar characteristic.
Yes, I know that’s all you’ve got as far as lemmy.ml promoting transphobia goes.
You are making this about Lemmy.ml to change the subject from this being about the Lemmy devs themselves. You like to deflect a lot I’ve noticed.
Don’t argue with idiots. It’s never worth it.
For which you have precisely the same “evidence,” no more, no less.
https://join.piefed.social/try/ has a list. There just arn’t that many yet but https://anarchist.nexus/ is a solid choice.
the hard-line social democrats all started migrating because communists upset them. I’m an anarchist and don’t mind it so I’m still here
Personally, communists don’t bother me. Transphobic developers, however, don’t make me want to use their software.
That’s partially true, but not all true at all. Piefed development is way faster currently than Lemmy.
Nah, you’re a tankie.
You can easily find Anarchists on PieFed either on Quokk.au or Anarchist.Nexus though for anyone who wants to join us.
Why is that supposed to be an insult, I know nothing of tankie But was called one a couple days ago
Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia. That became the default term for anyone who supports brutal authoritarian states that suppress the people to assert their control. In modern day context a tankie would be someone who blames Ukraine for being invaded and denies the genocide of the Uyghurs.
Some rightwing/centrists like to use it to insult any leftist. You can just ignore those ones.
I appreciate you for taking the time to explain this to me, mostly sounds like a term people used to other other people
Pretty much it’s a thought-terminating othering. To label someone a tankie is to give license for prejudicially dismissing them.
It’s more of a term to point out that someone is the left equivalent of a Neo Nazi.
Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia.
I wouldn’t call fascists or CIA- & bourgeois-backed counterrevolutionaries “civilians.”
- JFK Files Reveal CIA Role in the 1956 Hungarian Uprising The tankies were right
- The 1968 Prague Spring — Counterrevolution as the “Trojan Horse” of Imperialism
- The blueprint of regime change operations - How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
I wouldn’t call fascists or CIA- & bourgeois-backed counterrevolutionaries “civilians.”
Fucking hilarious that you whine about the term tankie sounding “othering” to you and then shamelessly trot this line out.
No one buys your tankie gibberish!
I said it before (in this thread) and I will say it again:
ML are basically on par with Nazis; full endorsement of extermination of national identity/language/culture of “bad” ethnicities, support for russian Lebensraum, support for mass internment camps for “bad” ethnicities.
Dessalines, an American, has never lived in Ukraine or russia, doesn’t speak Ukrainian or russian and yet he comes up with bullshit like “putin just wants to show he means business” or “war is war, civilian casualties are fine [as long as it’s Ukrainians]”.
You never had any friends from Hungary or Czesh Republic, you’ve never been there.
The USSR was total trash. Abject poverty, genocidal extermination of the cultrue and language of occupied nations, KGB goons in universities and a corrupt leadership that makes the current oligarch/criminal look like good guys. You’ve likely never met anyone who lived in the USSR.
Thank you for proving my point!
name calling is pretty rude, believe it or not it’s possible to be an anarchist and not use one of your instances. for me I find plenty of other anarchists in my day to day organizing, separate from the internet
Some rightwing/centrists like to use it to insult any leftist. You can just ignore those ones.
oh, noted
Were they hard-line demsocs, or were they really just “progressive” liberals?
I’m probably being too generous, but they do tend to identify as that
The bots are talking to themselves, oh no
Not everyone opposed to trans people being in sports is a bigot.
Yep, I’m a bigot because I don’t want people taking steroids in sports.
-Jax@sh.itjust.works
Did you think that this was a gotcha?
I’m going to give myself time to look through your comments on my flight. It will be amusing watching the so called “anarchist” swiftly devolve into an authoritarian.
You cultists sure do love your buzzwords.
How many times do you think you’ve said death to America, by the way? I’ll have a count for you by the end of my flight.
Edit: ooh the direct quote of the day
The U.S. did deserve 9/11 though
Yeah. I’m sure this gets worse, and I haven’t even spent longer than 30 seconds looking. You should probably keep the fact that you’re ‘trans’ to yourself, if Lemmy were a bigger platform you would 100% be painting the picture of the ‘mentally ill trans person’ rhetoric the conservatives are pushing. You are literally problematic in your existence.
You know what’s nice? That we have this option at all. I’m partial to sdf, piefed, and world myself.
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 (if you’re looking to make accounts there and not just browse comms from your current acc:)). 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.
Edit: also welcome back to lemmy !
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
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.
For instance, hilariouschaos, the successor to explodingheads. ↩︎
Wait, why does lemmy.ml block infosec.pub, lemmy.cafe and programming.dev? All these seem innocuous?
It doesn’t block them; they block it.
Hexbear is basically only blocks lemmy.world
Hexbear runs an allowlist, they only federate with instances they select.
Oh yeah you’re probably right. Last time I checked that was true.
blahaj is very welcome toward anarchism and democratic socialism, it’s hostile towards authoritarian regimes
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.
There are actual socialists here! We just aren’t as loud as the tankies.
Then why partake in ML?
Check out slrpnk.net! Environmentalist, anarchist-leaning, very inclusive, with excellent admins and renewable-energy-powered servers.
