Block everyone! Block every instance! Block me! Block yourself!

Or maybe… just spend some time using the platform until you start to get a feel for the vibe. If you can bear to listen to opinions that don’t already align with your own, you’ll probably find that most people are pretty chill and discussions are mostly pretty civil. Disagreement is not the same thing as hostility or trolling. I’ve never blocked anything on this platform and I still find it to be miles better than reddit in terms of vibes. Rather than preemptively curating your feed based on whatever someone else’s idea of bad content is, you can form your own opinions. Block if you want, but you can also just… not engage.

There’s a lot of leftist spaces around here. I don’t mean liberal in the USA left, I mean actual socialist, communists, and anarchists. Most are fine with discussion but read the rules first. They’re usually in the side bar.

We like beans and soapy tits.

It’s more leftist than Reddit, but just as insufferable.

Welcome.

You may find stronger opinions here, and you may find them more popular than you’d expect.

People around here really love Linux.

Not saying it’s a bad thing. Linux is great.

But people around here reeeealy love Linux.

Might want to block the .ml instances if you don’t want to see too much weird chinese propaganda… (Tankies are weird).

Be aware that many of the instances (ml, hexbear, etcetera) can be rather full of authoritarian leftists. Politically, there are few far-right people, but quite a few authoritarians and quite a few anarchists. That said, not everyone on ml is a tankie.

Beans and powdered milk are important.

They banned me for absolutely no reason.

Because fucking u/spez uses full bot automation for moderation to mete out penalties – even permabans – for even the slightest casual remark of violence or anger or merely reading a post.

Be wary of tankies. What are tankies? It’s a pejorative term for authoritarian communists who will claim Pol Pot, Mao, and Stalin have done nothing wrong. They also support modern day Russia even though they’re supposedly a liberal democracy because they’re likely Russian psy ops guys.

We’re still a pretty small community here and you’ll see a lot of familiar usernames but you’ll eventually fit right in to our tapestry of performative outrage and bickering. Depending on your home instance, you may not be able to see all the fediverse communities. I recommend hopping around until you find one that fits your style, like dbzer0.

The vegans, cyclists, and feminists are a bit feral; they tend to generate drama/ragebait threads at a higher rate than the norm. Good to read if you have popcorn handy.

Post what you got - folks here like content.

Got an ultra-niche interest? Create a community and share.

Ignore karma and just have fun.

My 2 cents: Don’t be afraid to use the “block community” and curate your “home” from time to time, don’t keep it static. There are a lot of awesome things here that can get buried easily.