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
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kbal@fedia.io · 34 pts · 249d
It's hard to guess why you're dissatisfied with blahaj.zone. Far as I know it still has a good reputation.
SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 29 pts · 249d
If blahaj.zone is still great then im proud to be on this instance :3 im just exploring other options in case
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 249d
i no longer like lemmy blahaj.... cause i like piefed blahaj 💙
BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 249d
I tried piefed.blahaj but with the images being auto expanded by default there's way too much questionable anime.
wjs018@piefed.social · 7 pts · 249d
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.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 249d
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).
SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 249d
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?
rimu@piefed.social · 6 pts · 249d
Check out https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser
Fugit@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 249d
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.
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 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 · 3 pts · 249d
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.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 249d
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).
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 4 pts · 249d
+1 for more fellow PieFeds
Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 249d
I have an alt on https://quokk.au/, there’s also https://anarchist.nexus/.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 249d
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".
SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -2 pts · 249d
Some instances have rules and some instances have toxic developers like the ones at .ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad. I dont wanna be near them
Bubs@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 248d
I can do both of those with Lemmy. Maybe it's per app? Summit on Android allows both instance blocking and feeds.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 248d
That sounds like an app extending Lemmy's featureset. I cannot do those on boost.. that I'm aware of.
Wren@lemmy.today · 32 pts · 249d
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.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 16 pts · 249d
Browsing /subscribed only is definitely the way.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 3 pts · 249d
Wren@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 249d
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.
prettybunnys@piefed.social · -2 pts · 248d
The rules on Lemmy.ml are innocuous too, fwiw.
Wren@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 248d
As are the rules of most instances.
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 0 pts · 248d
so using the rules as a metric is like the points on who’s line
Wren@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 248d
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?
prettybunnys@piefed.social · -2 pts · 248d
beep boop
nebajoth@piefed.ca · 20 pts · 249d
none. join a piefed instance instead.
SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 249d
is there an introduction to piefed instances anywhere? what happened to lemmy that caused ppl to migrate to piefed?
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 249d
https://join.piefed.social/try/ has a list. There just arn't that many yet but https://anarchist.nexus/ is a solid choice.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 5 pts · 249d
davel@lemmy.ml · -6 pts · 249d
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.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · -1 pts · 249d
Wren@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 248d
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:
davel@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 249d
Yes, I know that’s all you’ve got as far as lemmy.ml promoting transphobia goes.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · -1 pts · 249d
davel@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 249d
For which you have precisely the same “evidence,” no more, no less.
Klear@quokk.au · 1 pts · 249d
Don't argue with idiots. It's never worth it.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · -4 pts · 249d
More countries doing a genocide is not an argument against another one doing it
davel@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 249d
Woosh
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · -6 pts · 248d
No, I don't think so
kariboka@mastodon.social · 9 pts · 248d
jazzkoalapaws@ttrpg.network · -10 pts · 248d
Thanks for the explanation.
Now I know to stick with lemmy.
Diva@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 249d
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
Fugit@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 249d
Personally, communists don't bother me. Transphobic developers, however, don't make me want to use their software.
Skavau@piefed.social · 3 pts · 249d
That's partially true, but not all true at all. Piefed development is way faster currently than Lemmy.
davel@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 249d
Were they hard-line demsocs, or were they really just “progressive” liberals?
Diva@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 249d
I'm probably being too generous, but they do tend to identify as that
Jax@sh.itjust.works · -6 pts · 248d
The bots are talking to themselves, oh no
Diva@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 248d
-Jax@sh.itjust.works
Jax@sh.itjust.works · -6 pts · 248d
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
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.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · -2 pts · 249d
dickalan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 249d
Why is that supposed to be an insult, I know nothing of tankie But was called one a couple days ago
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 0 pts · 249d
dickalan@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 249d
I appreciate you for taking the time to explain this to me, mostly sounds like a term people used to other other people
davel@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 249d
Pretty much it’s a thought-terminating othering. To label someone a tankie is to give license for prejudicially dismissing them.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · -1 pts · 249d
kariboka@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 249d
NoahLoren@ayom.media · 1 pts · 248d
davel@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 249d
I wouldn’t call fascists or CIA- & bourgeois-backed counterrevolutionaries “civilians.”
bobzer@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 248d
Fucking hilarious that you whine about the term tankie sounding "othering" to you and then shamelessly trot this line out.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 249d
No one buys your tankie gibberish!
I said it before (in this thread) and I will say it again:
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!
Diva@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 249d
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
oh, noted
unruffled@anarchist.nexus · 17 pts · 248d
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.
davel@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 248d
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.
Qwel@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 248d
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.
oculi@anarchist.nexus · 15 pts · 249d
SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 249d
Is there an overview of the rules for all three instances? And which one is the most popular?
oculi@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 249d
Saltycracker@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 249d
To be honest since you can design everything by joining communities you like. I feel like it doesn’t matter
SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 249d
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
oculi@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 249d
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 249d
Interesting tool.
How is that ML only has two censures:
https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.ml
ML is a tankie instance.
Also fascinating to see DB0 giving an endorsement to ML. Not surprising though.
oculi@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 249d
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 249d
Ah I see. I didn't realize a censure had a technical component. That being said, by this point not much would be lost with a defederation from ML.
Still a mere two hesitations and tons of endorsements (including DB0).
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.
Sure, they deny this, but from memory all of the Nazis at Nuremberg pleaded not guilty.
kariboka@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 249d
@Alphane_Moon @oculi never read such shit in my life, go back to the 80s redscared gramma
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 249d
I love how tankies are obsessed with 80s red scare and McCarthy.
You can't even see the irony in your statement.
Skavau@piefed.social · 1 pts · 249d
People probably don't want to defederate the flagship instance owned by the devs of the software they're using.
jazzkoalapaws@ttrpg.network · -3 pts · 248d
.ml isn't significantly worse than hexbear, beehaw, or blahaj.
All of them love censorship to support their narrative.
SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 249d
Yes! Thats the one i remember
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world MOD · 10 pts · 248d
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.
lorski@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 248d
This thread is wild. I am good on Lemmy. I like sopuli.xyz
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 249d
Check out slrpnk.net! Environmentalist, anarchist-leaning, very inclusive, with excellent admins and renewable-energy-powered servers.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 8 pts · 249d
You know what's nice? That we have this option at all. I'm partial to sdf, piefed, and world myself.
davel@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 249d
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.
froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 249d
blahaj is very welcome toward anarchism and democratic socialism, it's hostile towards authoritarian regimes
kariboka@mastodon.social · 4 pts · 249d
flamingos@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 249d
Hexbear runs an allowlist, they only federate with instances they select.
davel@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 249d
Oh yeah you’re probably right. Last time I checked that was true.
nothrone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 248d
Wait, why does lemmy.ml block infosec.pub, lemmy.cafe and programming.dev? All these seem innocuous?
davel@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 248d
It doesn’t block them; they block it.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 249d
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.
sephallen@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 248d
There are actual socialists here! We just aren't as loud as the tankies.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 248d
Then why partake in ML?
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 248d
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.
oculi@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 248d
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 248d
Do other instances defederate with them, though?
Pika@rekabu.ru · 4 pts · 248d
lemmy.today is federated both ways with pretty much all of Lemmy, from .world to tankie triad to beehaw
oculi@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 248d
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 249d
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.
url@feddit.fr · 6 pts · 249d
Worst part is they are all on cloudflare. I only found 2 that are not. they are feddit.fr and peifed.hlahaz
oculi@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 248d
Luci@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 249d
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: https://join-lemmy.org/instances https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 248d
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.
SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 248d
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
c0dezer0@programming.dev · 3 pts · 248d
Minimac@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 249d
I really like Lemmy than Reddit because it smooth and no ad disturb!
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 249d
Sh.itjust.works is fine if you want to join a mid-sized instance.
I personally find DB0 to be a bit suspect (they tolerate and sometimes enable tankies).
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 249d
Sh.itjust.works has been rumoured to have fascist views....
dudesss@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 249d
Its run by the Fedecan folks who run lemmy.ca and piefed.ca
https://fedecan.ca/en/
I saw no indication of facism lol. Where did you hear this rumor?
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -2 pts · 249d
https://lemmy.ml/comment/15065469
dudesss@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 248d
This comment means they're facist to you? 😂
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 248d
No, I just read that and assumed it to be true. I'll believe it to be false if you can offer a convincing replace statement
planish@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 248d
I don't think there can be that high a density of fascists. sh.itjust.works just voted overwhelmingly to defederate some kind of MAGA nonsense instance. Mostly it seems like nice folks overhere who know fascists are bad news.
It might be full of individualists with no grounding in Marxist theory, of the type that much annoyed Vladimir Lennin. I couldn't tell you because of my poor grounding Marxist theory, and I don't see that as a problem because of my individualism.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 249d
Lol, this is the most stereotypical tankie gibberish there is.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -5 pts · 249d
I think you should educate yourself a bit more on the subject
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 249d
Please indulge me, my well educated friend.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 248d
Join multiple for when you get banned in some sub.
url@feddit.fr · 3 pts · 248d
And donate some money. Don't waste resources
vga@sopuli.xyz · -3 pts · 248d
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.
Auth@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 249d
probably lemmy.ml
SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -1 pts · 249d
Lol no
sephallen@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 248d
We're not all bad here!
alzjim@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 249d
That's the 3rd worst?