I have been on Lemmy for a while now but never posted anything as a new post so please forgive me if I am doing anything wrong.
I see that I am part of lemmy.world and that this instance is frowned upon.
Is there a better instance I can join? I am not very clued up on Lemmy and as far as I can see it is made up of lots of different sites which are linked together.
I just want to be part of a healthy group and I am just getting into astronomy so are there any good groups for that please?
If it helps I am based in the UK.
Have a great weekend all.
Edit: sorry for the late response another 6 day week at work. Thank you all so much for the very useful advice!
Lemmy.world, by political ideology, is most similar to old Reddit. Namely, you’re most likely going to find generally-left-of-center people. Several other instances (namely lemmy.ml) are known for being significantly more left-leaning, basically hard communist.
As is tradition for left-leaning people, there’s a lot of infighting. .world people think that .ml people are tankies. .ml people think that .world people are corporate bootlickers. Both sides accuse the other of heavy-handed censorship.
Basically, I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s just your standard leftism infighting.
I’ve rarely seen people of the left on lemmy.world. Not never, just rarely
Not sure if you’re talking about vibes like US Democrats voters or something
Lemmy.world is not frowned upon. There are some people who are very vocal about not liking it but if you don’t have any problems you don’t need to change. There is also nothing stopping you from having accounts on diferent instances so try some of them out and stay where you like it.
Lemm.ee: It’s the Switzerland of the fediverse. ;)
The Operations Team are a stand-up group. Their focus is on delivering stability.
You’ll basically get access to all content (and all “features”, like up-vote and down-vote - I’m looking at you beehaw).
What I’ve heard from other people is that they want automagic curated content… so you won’t find that a lemm.ee, but for me - I’m happy to find the content that’s meaningful to me.
I will check them out
People frown upon lemmy.world because it’s a politically American center-right instance on a leftist social media platform that bans leftist discourse via defederation.
If your politics align w them and you don’t mind them deciding what you can and can’t see on your behalf, you’ll do fine there.
I switched from lemmy.world because of that and switched to an instance that doesn’t make a habit of defederating from the most active instances (ie hexbear) and there’s also another center-right instance named lemm.ee that also doesn’t defederate.
Yeah I don’t agree with Lemmy world censorship as well and that’s why I spinned my own instance. The beauty of a federated environment
Good to know
Thanks for the insight
Np and I can see that you’ve gotten an introduction to the political culture war that’s being waged on lemmy (assuming you weren’t already aware). Lol
One more piece of info that I wished someone had given me when I first started is that a huge majority of lemmings are cool; but there are significantly more center-right users than leftist users so you’ll see more of the vitriol you witnessed in this post coming from the center-right instances like lemmy.world and lem.ee, but the leftists are a scrappy bunch so they’ll respond in kind and mostly from hexbear; hence the defederations.
Ah gotcha. I guess people will be people but I wish it wasn’t so easy to divide us so we could work to common good and change but I know that’s just a dream.
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This person unwittingly provides an excellent example of why many dislike .ml users.
Because they calmly explain their reasons?
It is fucking hilarious for the tankieverse to blame somewhere else for being too hard on censorship lmao y’all really are something
They did calmly explain their reasons, while you resorted to a nobody likes them generalisation and now tankie name calling.
🥱 cope and seethe, your downvotes mean nothing.
You didn’t raise any better point, right?
So what is there to cope and seethe?Yes, downvotes are not really a big deal, especially in lemmy.
You don’t need to seethe at the downvotes.
Lol yeah right
If you want overtly lefty stuff without the chinese government ball fondling, solarpunk is a pretty good instance, or .blahaj if you’re more interested in social/gender issues.
Likewise db0 is the anarchist instance. Way more chill and not of that authoritarian genocide worship.
Stop moving the political compass leftward
“Why don’t you communists try to be more conservative?”
That’s a wild suggestion that I’ve never seen before lol
Um, no? Stop centering your political compass around a new center, where to you current leftists look rightwing according to it
Um, no? Stop centering your political compass around a new center, where to you current leftists look rightwing according to it
Your reply shows to me that you are unfamiliar with socialism/communism and don’t entirely know what you’re referring to.
I’m not pushing anything towards the left, the left has always been to the…well, left.
The only thing that has swifted is the fact that a lot more people now are unfamiliar with what constitute as “left” and their perception of what is “extreme left” has changed because of their unfamiliarity with it. And because of right wing propaganda scare tactics like “everything I don’t like is communist!”
The compass has never moved. Only your perception of it has
You are literally calling lemmy.world rightwing and lecturing me that I’m too conscious about communism, and no it’s not that I am uneducated about communism because I literally voted for the TIP in turkey
My recommended are:
sh.itjust.works
sopuli.xyz
If it helps I am based in the UK.
feddit.uk seems like a great fit, your fellow compatriots are on there 😅
Cheers mate will have a look
Obviously you will make up your own mind, but I have had to block shitjustworks entirely, due to the amount of fashposting I’ve seen from there. For comparison, Lemmy.world often annoys the shit out of me, but I haven’t had to block the whole thing. The main thing is how the instance moderates. You can always block users and communities, but those “light-touch moderation” instances will always end up full of the worst people.
A small list of cool instances:
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lemmy.blahaj.zone : chill place and people, LGBT (and especially trans) friendly
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hexbear.net : very active and friendly instance that used to be separate from Lemmy. Most people are very various lefties
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lemmy.ml : generalist instance, moderated by the devs of Lemmy. It is not marketed as a left instance but some socialists join there because of the .ml (Marxism Leninism)
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For astronomy there is !astronomy@mander.xyz. The communities on mander.xyz are STEM focussed and usually well moderated.
You could also try
As for the instance, stay wherever you feel most comfortable. I have a few alts on other instances, including lemmy.world. You’re also free to move later if you decide to.
If it helps I am based in the UK.
You can also check out the instance / communities at
Try different ones out. I personally avoid Lemmy.world as there more pro capatilism and Oligarchy then other instances. And tend to block instances that are against capatilism and Oligarchy.
It’s very much the reddit of Lemmy in that regard.
Interested in astronomy you say? Well mander.xyz describe themselves as a “An instance dedicated to nature and science.”. They have a astronomy community with, some activity - !astronomy@mander.xyz. I’m not on mander so I don’t know how things are there, but I pretty much don’t ever see anyone complaining about it.
feddit.uk is a UK instance. So there might be some interesting things there for you.
lemmy.ee is known for not defederating unless absolutely necessary.
On the topic of defederating, lemmy.world is somewhat disliked due to their defederation happy tendencies. For the most part, though, this whole instance wars thing is mostly due to disagreements on what kind of political discourse should be allowed. Instances like lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net and lemmy.ml are a bit too left-wing for many people from the center-right to handle: the world views are just too different.
I could rant about the dam instance wars, but it is not what you came were for.
Thanks for the explanation much appreciated
Feddit.uk is good if you’re in the UK. Then you can switch to Local and see lots of UK stuff.
Yeah, and you can just subscribe to the astronomy communities that are on other instances.
That’s a great idea
Discuss.online has near 100% uptime and is very fast
The administrators are p. Cool, they’re a good community
Don’t worry about it. If you don’t post anything they disagree with (and most people don’t), you will not be annoyed by them.
If you have only mainstream opinions, you will be fine. You don’t question mainstream science, you think everyone needs to vaccinate for the public good, and so on. Nothing strange for the majority.
If you want to stay on lemmy.world, you can. As you can see in the comments, everyones username is @username@instance.name, you can follow communities from any lemmy instance and people from any instance can comment.
As for picking an instance, i’d avoid beehaw.org, hexbear.net, lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml.
Lemmy.world is frowned upon because its too big, so it has some performance issues and moderation issues.
Queer people suggesting not to join instances fighting for their rights, with 0 given reason is kind of wild not gonna lie
Many of us here are queer as well and I don’t think I’ll ever understand right-wing LGBT
This was a while ago, but I want to clarify,
I reccommended avoiding beehaw because its typically not what people are looking for out of lemmy. Don’t get me wrong, they have a great community and its very well moderated, but its likely not what OP wanted.
I didn’t reccommend hex, grad and .ml because of the tankies and because they are controversial and get defederated a lot. I have immense respect for hexbears defense of lgbt rights, but they probably aren’t the best for your average lemmy worlder.
Thank you for clarifying but I think you go over the main topic a bit quickly. What does it mean “because of the tankies”? Who are the tankies and what have they done that is to be avoided by going to another instance?
Well, the people who are fans of authoritiarian regimes(like the soviet union), and are pro china/russia. Those instances specifically house those people, which leads to them getting defederated from major instances.
Again, thank you for trying to explain.
I consider I understand enough to answer then. Please don’t take my judgements personally or as an insult.
I think this is biased view of the socialists of Lemmy. They have a critical support (mostly positive and negative on the negative parts) of the people revolution of 1917 in Russia and the Soviet union. They also have a critical support of China and encroyages it’s socialist ways, they are the biggest communist lead country today and a wonderful counter power to the US and EU imperialism (the enabler of capitalism, don’t mix up other weird definitions). They have a small critical support of Russia, because even though they can’t support it’s government for its ideology, it also participates in anti-US imperialism. Socialists don’t praise authoritarian “regimes” (yep, that’s a clue of propaganda regurgitation). Socialists do support something also called dictatorship, but it’s the dictatorship of proletariat, to reverse the current dictatorship of the bourgeoisie
What leads liberal (which is the idealogy of capitalism, not any another weird definition) instances of Lemmy to defedarate is because… they are liberal. It is difficult for people evolving in a liberal society, drenched in daily capitalist propaganda to accept challenging views
I don’t have the time to write a full reply right now, but I just used the word “regime” to describe any sort of a system. I would refer to the u.s as a capitalist regime, for example. Am I using it wrong?
I’m not right wing, Im just not a fan of tankies.
