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

  • Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish
    16·
    4 hours ago

    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.

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    46 minutes 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. ↩︎

  • kbal@fedia.io
    15·
    4 hours ago

    It’s hard to guess why you’re dissatisfied with blahaj.zone. Far as I know it still has a good reputation.

      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        3 hours ago

        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.zoneOPEnglish
          3·
          3 hours ago

          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?

          • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            4·
            1 hour ago

            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).

          • Fugit@piefed.blahaj.zoneFrançais
            2·
            2 hours ago

            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. @[email protected] 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.netEnglish
              2·
              2 hours ago

              @[email protected] 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.

  • 𝕆𝕔𝕦𝕝𝕚@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    101·
    3 hours ago

    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 !

      • 𝕆𝕔𝕦𝕝𝕚@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        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

  • Minimac@lemmy.mlEnglish
    01·
    1 hour ago

    I really like Lemmy than Reddit because it smooth and no ad disturb!

  • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pubEnglish
    6·
    4 hours ago

    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.

  • Saltycracker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    4 hours 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
      4·
      4 hours 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

          • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            56 minutes ago

            People probably don’t want to defederate the flagship instance owned by the devs of the software they’re using.

          • 𝕆𝕔𝕦𝕝𝕚@anarchist.nexusEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            Censuring completely defederates an instance (at least with threativore) and most instances aren’t defederated with ml anyway, so this makes sense:)

            It has recieved two hesitations tho, which are like censures but without defederation

            • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
              22·
              3 hours ago

              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.

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    4 hours ago

    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).