The Fediverse is huge and overwhelming to a newcomer, with many different types and each with servers to pick from. Which ones would you suggest checking out or avoiding?
Blahaj.zone we’re chill AF here
I was wondering why we suddenly had so many astroturfers, shills and bots creeping in and fucking up all the conversations. It used to just be dumb but earnest tankies, now we got all kinds up in this bitch.
Huh well I wonder why making your space inhospitable for leftists would attract astroturfers and shills?
Corpo trash can’t stand wrongthink
!main@sh.itjust.works they are very new-user friendly, diaspora: idfk its dead, mastodon: official instance, peertube: peertube.wtf with official app to do federation stuff
peertube: peertube.wtf with official app to do federation stuff
I assume you can login into it via GrayJay as well
never used grayjay to begin with, used different apps for different fediverse stuff
As far as I understand, lemmy instances are sort of a community with communities inside. It seems that each isntance has their own like minded userbase. .world has basich mix of everyone due to popularity, .ml holds strong beliefs politically, blahaj.zone is more progressive in gender identity, piefed.social is more mainstream decentralized instance. And of course there are more I didn’t mention.
I am on dbzer0 because I am into selfhosting and sailing the seas. It fits me well. Tied to one instance doesn’t stop me from engaging on other instances except the ones I blacklisted.
Check the instances and their descriptions and find something that fits you.
db0 is also pro-GenAI, which seems unfortunate to me.
You can do what I do and just block the genAI art comms.
No harm, no foul, I just am not interested in the content.
While I can’t say for certain, I would strongly suspect that a lot of the people in those comms are self hosting their LLMs/Image generators, if that makes you feel any better.
But uh, there are a variety of nuanced stances on LLMs and such, amongst the other m@teys I’ve talked with.
Its… not like we’re all super duper no holds barred put AI in everything advocates.
A lot of us are… quite a lot closer to ‘Butlerian Jihad NOW’, lol.
db0 and sh. are my viiiibbbbbee
Just FYI everyone, this spike is sort of a glitch and its quite obvious just from looking at how steep the curve is. It all comes from nodebb which is a forum software and i guess they switched on federation on 11.01.2026 which gave us this magical bump.
They are real users probably, but what i mean is that this wasnt a rush of new users, but just old (mostly inactive) users that were never considered part of the fediverse until now.
I would recommend use https://join-lemmy.org/ it suggest a generic instance and also lets search specific instances.
Hard to take that list seriously.
World is missing, and ML, Hexbear, and Lemmygrad are the top promoted servers. What a joke.
Go for a smaller European one, the one I’m on is in Finland. Me, I like Finland, the fins are sexy. And why only use one instance, you can have a user on several, that way
you can downvote your own posts and discuss with a person that is as intelligent as yourself (mainly because it actually is you!) I mean:you can try out the audience and communities, which are different on all servers.Lemmy.ml ofc. “Tankie” instance made by the actual lemmy devs.
I joined lemmy.ml after the reddit APIcalypse because it was the largest one at the time, about 3 years ago. The “tankie fascist” thing has been very interesting, I see it as a very effective tool for groupthink people to out themselves on. I’m a soft-leaning socialist if anything, not very politically involved, but the angry emotional groupthink people actually gives zero fucks about what I think. They just see .ml, decide in their own heads what I think and what “team” I’m on, and call me a tankie fascist! It’s hilarious actually, I don’t even have to say anything and those type of thinkers just present themselves for me to block. And thank god for how easy it is to curate Lemmy with blocks!
Over time it has become a very cool place with many views and interesting people from different paths of life discussing everything quite civilly.
I especially like the meta posts about inter-instance squabbling. They’re goldmines for my block list.
I mean, I’m an ‘anarkiddie’ according to actual tankies, but I don’t broadly discriminate against .ml users, most of them are great!
… but, a lot of .ml powermods do things like declare the Xi Poohbear meme to be inherently racist, even though it was literally created by Chinese netizens.
Or, god help you if you attempt to discuss the Holodomor.
… but, a lot of .ml powermods do things like declare the Xi Poohbear meme to be inherently racist, even though it was literally created by Chinese netizens.
That’s not a valid reason to think it’s not racist for Westerners to use it, especially when the OG meme was specifically about one picture where Xi and Obama were walking together and looked a little bit like Winnie and Tigger. For one, Chinese people are just as capable of saying racist stuff as anyone else, but also language and memes transform when transported to different cultures. Xi Jinping bears little resemblance to Winnie the Pooh; the fact that online anticommunists really want to die on the hill that they should be allowed to compare the president of China to a yellow bear reflects poorly on them.
Or, god help you if you attempt to discuss the Holodomor.
Yeah, if you say the typical line among online anticommunists that the USSR committed a genocide via famine in Eastern Europe you’ll get a similar reaction to the one you’d get if you went and said as such in a history department at any university. That is, outside of the Baltic states, Ukraine, and particularly reactionary parts of North America. From the way you directly wrote “Holodomor/Holocaust numbers” in this comment it appears that you subscribe to the double genocide theory and think that those 2 events are comparable.
sigh
I’m not going to have this discussion, again.
I’m tired.
Thank you for proving my point that some .ml users get very very touchy about these two topics.
Yeah because you’re demonstrably incorrect on both counts. If you don’t wanna talk about it, don’t bring it up.
Fellow tankie fascist here! Don’t try too hard to appeal to the fediverse, you know we have a mission to spread Marx’s word every waking hour to people that will probably have influence in the real world at Lemmy.world.
I don’t even know what Marx said! lol
Lemmy.ml, iirc, stopped being promoted a couple years ago because it’s kind of the experimental instance of Lemmy. The developers of this instance themselves shared the idea for new users is not to be here, and use other instances to free up a bit of the server resources, but older accounts like mine, well, we are still around.
stopped being promoted a couple years ago because it’s kind of the experimental instance of Lemmy
No, it’s because your admins are genocide deniers that want Ukraine to be taken over by Russia.
Most of Lemmy doesn’t want to be associated with that. Hell, that’s a large part of why PieFed was developed
Except that the people who started suggesting to avoid pushing .ml were the Lemmy devs, the instance admins, and that is what this user is referencing. Exactly for the reasons described.
This was back during the surge from Reddit in 2023.
“Most of Lemmy” was made up of communists before then.
Hell, that’s a large part of why PieFed was developed
I like when people don’t act coy about this being direct motivation so thanks.
Great! I found the announcement at this thread, if you want to know the argued reasons for this policy.
