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
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.
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.
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.
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.
This thread is wild. I am good on Lemmy. I like sopuli.xyz
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.
Lemmy.sdf.org and lemmy.zip have very lax defederation policies, those might interest you
Do other instances defederate with them, though?
lemmy.today is federated both ways with pretty much all of Lemmy, from .world to tankie triad to beehaw
AFAIK no. Lemmy.zip is not problematic and SDF largely stays in the background.
I tried to verify this but the only tool for this stuff, defed.xyz, seems to have shut down 4 months ago, shame.
Check out slrpnk.net! Environmentalist, anarchist-leaning, very inclusive, with excellent admins and renewable-energy-powered servers.
You know what’s nice? That we have this option at all. I’m partial to sdf, piefed, and world myself.
Worst part is they are all on cloudflare. I only found 2 that are not. they are feddit.fr and peifed.hlahaz
iirc Lemmy.dbzer0.com isn’t either.
Our dear wrench monkey , tenchiken, is working on moving anarchist.nexus off cloudflare too, nice
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.
For instance, hilariouschaos, the successor to explodingheads. ↩︎
blahaj is very welcome toward anarchism and democratic socialism, it’s hostile towards authoritarian regimes
Hexbear is basically only blocks lemmy.world
Hexbear runs an allowlist, they only federate with instances they select.
Oh yeah you’re probably right. Last time I checked that was true.
Wait, why does lemmy.ml block infosec.pub, lemmy.cafe and programming.dev? All these seem innocuous?
It doesn’t block them; they block it.
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.
There are actual socialists here! We just aren’t as loud as the tankies.
Then why partake in ML?
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.
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
It says there are 200 comments but I can see 2
This happens if other users have blocked you or your instance.
I really like Lemmy than Reddit because it smooth and no ad disturb!
Join multiple for when you get banned in some sub.
And donate some money. Don’t waste resources
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.
probably lemmy.ml
That’s the 3rd worst?
Lol no
We’re not all bad here!
It’s hard to guess why you’re dissatisfied with blahaj.zone. Far as I know it still has a good reputation.
If blahaj.zone is still great then im proud to be on this instance :3 im just exploring other options in case
i no longer like lemmy blahaj… cause i like piefed blahaj 💙
I tried piefed.blahaj but with the images being auto expanded by default there’s way too much questionable anime.
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.
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).
I can do both of those with Lemmy. Maybe it’s per app? Summit on Android allows both instance blocking and feeds.
That sounds like an app extending Lemmy’s featureset. I cannot do those on boost… that I’m aware of.
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?
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. @povoq@slrpnk.net 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.net 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.
I have an alt on https://quokk.au/, there’s also https://anarchist.nexus/.
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”.
Some instances have rules and some instances have toxic developers like the ones at .ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad. I dont wanna be near them
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).
+1 for more fellow PieFeds
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.
IIRC a few instances are de-federated from .today due to how rightwing/conservative it is. So it’s a bit like shadowbanning yourself.
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.
The rules on Lemmy.ml are innocuous too, fwiw.
As are the rules of most instances.
so using the rules as a metric is like the points on who’s line
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?
beep boop
Browsing /subscribed only is definitely the way.
