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

  • Saltycracker@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

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

    • SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      2 months 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

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months 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]. 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.

    1. For instance, hilariouschaos, the successor to explodingheads. ↩︎

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month 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.

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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        2 months 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.