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
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.
Ok but crackers are bad tho
gotta decolonize whiteness and break it back up into like walloons and gauls and picts or whatever. we need to do the same for the concept of german but as its own thing
“I’m german” no you’re fucking not, that isn’t a thing, you’re hohanwaldeckian nerd don’t make shit up
yea my skins white but if there’s a race war im not with them fk that
it isn’t even white, that’s just nazi lies, put it up next to something that’s actually white and you’ll see what i mean
yea thats all bs. my wife she have siblings of all colors even tho its same family
People just be making stuff up and posting it online for the whole world to see that’s wild
It really feels like none of these people have ever been on ml and just keep making up more outlandish rumors to scare themselves away from looking
I was going to ask what they meant by extermination of the culture of “bad” ethnicities, but they probably mean Ukraine and think that Banderism is synonymous with Ukrainian identity . . .
I was thinking Uyghurs
I mean to a point…
I disagree, I think it’s just that capital has placed Banderists in charge of the state and they’ve inculcated those attitudes over the past ~20 years, when it was much less popular before outside of the fascist circles that have been cultivated by the CIA since the 1950s.
For the vast majority of Ukraine’s time as a legally distinct entity it was socialist
Lots of the comments are just uncontrollable emotional screeching about how lemmy.ml is tankies and then not having any coherent explanation beyond “tankie bad”.
One of these days, im just gonna make a fresh new account, go over there and and ask “hey all, which lemmy instance is best? Im new here, where should I avoid?” and see how many hundreds of comments all infighting each other i can get by playing dumb
That would be funny, then post an update: I ended up joining hexbear.net because they have a cute little bear!
“Also their emojis seems like a neat feature!”
eventually hint that you’re considering hexbear and get them tripping over themselves trying to save you from the horrible dankies
‘idk hexbear seems neat’
funni owl pictures
dankies
this edible ain’t shi-
Be sure to let us know when you do this.
Maybe in a week when this particular thread dies down.
😈
I wrote a few comments in that thread. In one I referenced fediseer, and got two comments about how lemmy dot ml are basically Nazis and would’ve been hung at the Nuremberg trials, and an entire thread below my comment just arguing.
I mean politics aside, what the fuck who even responds like that I didn’t even mention .ml or politics ??? What did i do to deserve this 😭
sharing a boutique reaction image for similar situations 😇
haha I already have that, my gallery is literally all obscure leftist shitposts downloaded over a year lmao. I love this one
anyone who wants a hexbear local copy it’s here:
Conservatives are so funny. Just full of OMG FREE SPEEEEEECH but also so afraid of accidentally seeing a single leftist viewpoint
anarchist with demsoc leaning
What
The way I interpreted it, they’re an anarchist but with support for attempting reformism.
They meant “liberal”
Lemmy has become such a racist nazi loving shithole, the reason I can’t in good conscience recommend even Hexbear to anyone anymore due to proximity and association, let alone the rest of lemmy
they just CANNOT admit it, even to themselves.
though i wonder why .ml is the new target, hexbear is even more tankie.
many of them probably forget about us since they defederated preemptively, as a last resort
Because they’re attacking the devs without explicitly saying it.
Am wondering how long until piefed just adds ml to it’s block list
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).
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.
none. join a piefed instance instead.
It’s great how even though db0 admins are happy to play defense for users saying the Red Army should have surrendered to the invading Nazis [hopefully we don’t need to relitigate this], they still get accused of being le tankie sympathizers. Maybe one day they’ll learn.
They said “dems suck” once and libs never forgave them
Well that and also Ye Power Tripping Bastards is like a mosquito zapper for the terminally online centrists. They’re drawn in full of righteous fury and melt down when the community doesn’t agree. Many such cases
It’s interesting that their community is significantly to the left of the admins.
Ran into an actual “anti deutsche” guy there the other day, funny how a supposedly anarchist comm just accepts genocidal freaks so long as they don’t like “red fash tankies”
Any “leftist” group that builds their identity around hating other leftists will invariably attract that kind of person, and since being anti-left is more important than actually being left, they quickly chase out anyone who isn’t a CHUD.
Hexbear is basically only blocks lemmy.world
Insert something about a preemptive last resort here.
Lol their first recomendation is the instance with the transphobic admin and chud comms
30·5 days agoQuality slop!
Also
@Diva@lemmy.ml being in the trenches.
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I did call it that posting my literal estrogen vial with a handwritten note would not be enough for that loser.
could you imagine if someone you knew was like ‘hey take a picture of your estrogen with an insulting message for this loser online so I can win an argument asap’. grasping to literally any explanation to continue doubling down on being transphobic.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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hell yeah, how do you ban people from instances where they’ve never commented?
Manually through the api. It requires a bit of work.
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ohhh bookmarked for future use
This made me go and take a look at my lemmycli tool I wrote once. The web ui is kinda lacking sometimes.
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If Edie had an actual, visible history of transphobia, I think it would be fair enough. The main issue is that Edie doesn’t have such a history.see below, I’m a silly person
Edie was the one to ban, not the one being banned. ze banned my interlocutor from the OP thread for their transphobia.
Oh, my bad, I completely misread
You may have mistaken something. I banned jax (the transphobe diva is arguing with) from !transgender@lemmy.ml, not the other way around.
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I did make a mistake. Thank you for your service
sh.itjust.works continuing to prove themselves as the worst instance.
Hope he dies in a tar pit
Sjw loser acting like their instance admin isnt a transphobe that thinks trans rights are a sino-russian plot to destroy amerikkka
I thought that was why half were on that server?
That Jax person is straight up deranged lmao
love getting replies from the same guy in like every subthread I’m in because he got mad reading my post history and wanted to call me new slurs he invented
I thought maybe I was a bit too online, but then I saw this guy lol
I think it’s funny for them to invoke Brandolini’s Law when the dynamic is that you are going through such an effort to debunk their accusations and they just go “nah.” But no, they are the ones with the Herculean task.
I think it’s funny for them to invoke Brandolini’s Law because nobody who isn’t terminally online knows what the fresh fuck Brandolini’s Law is.
I am terminally online and I don’t know what it is 😮
Guess I’m a poser who needs to step up their game.
lol same
I looked it up. It means bullshit takes more time/energy to disprove than it does to spread bullshit. “Lies travel the world while the truth is still getting its boots on,” as the saying goes.
Ew. Yet another thing I fucking despise about libs, it’s how they will take some vague saying or truism and proclaim that it is a “law” and therefore an immutable part of reality.
I’m terminally online and I didn’t recognize it by that name either. I think maybe it’s a terminally online neolib thing or something, but idk.
You should receive a medal of the ultimate username checks out
nominative determinism wins again ✨
I don’t know what lemmy dot world is, but I check the comments over there, out of curiosity, and it scares me, some of the stuff is worse than what I have seen on reddit.
Is this like a inside joke they are having or are those people serious? I hope they get the help they need. This is very sad.
Lemmy.world is part of a network of “generic” Fediverse instances commonly ending with the .world TLD (mastodon.world is another example administered by the same people). They appear to be mostly concerned with growth, essentially following the tech startup model of growth -> ??? -> profit. The admins saw the Reddit Exodus as a good opportunity to expand their small collection of platforms into Lemmy, and by the numbers they were the most successful (though dozens of other instances were launched around the same time).
In the lead-up to the Reddit Exodus, Lemmy dev Nutomic (IIRC) pitched Lemmy as an alternative on Reddit and the thread went viral. As a maturing Free Software alternative to Reddit with real-world use, and an architecture which mitigates many of the shortcomings of previous Reddit alternatives (e.g. Raddle, Voat, Tildes) it checked all of the boxes that tech-bro Redditors could possibly ask for in such a platform. It stood out to them as a viable solution for the same reasons it stood out to us five years ago. Tens of thousands of people created accounts on various instances and got to posting.
Soon after, the Red Scare began. With the number of instances being launched and the number people signing up, people began taking notice. Not just on Reddit and Lemmy, but on other corners of social media as well. In various ways, people began pointing out that the people developing the alternative to monopoly capital social media were (gasp) Communists. This snowballed from curiosity and concern from people who weren’t used to seeing open communists developing free software, to a full blown social hysteria - our own little Satanic Panic. Dessalines’s thoughtfully written collection of essays transformed into the necronomicon. A collection of works which could be pointed to as proof of his and the project’s deceitful nature, while simultaneously being a form of forbidden knowledge which could never be quoted with any amount of context. Thousands of people, including instance administrators, developed the mindset that they had been tricked into using Lemmy, and that rather than its obvious purpose of being a censorship-resistant social media platform which is also structurally resistant to corporate acquisition and consolidation, it is actually a nefarious organ of misinformation aimed at disintegrating the foundations of Western Civilization.
A substantial part of the social media engagement strategy employed on platforms like Reddit is to make the users believe that by posting, they are engaging in an existential battle for civilization. With Liberal Democracy hanging by a thread, the smallest acts like upvoting the good ideas and downvoting the bad ideas can be all the difference it takes to tip the scales. Every day they spend in the posting trenches is a day that fascism is held at bay. Where the beleaguered city on the hill can stand one day longer against the endless hordes of tyranophillic Russians and Chinese. This attitude was carried over here by many of the Reddit converts, and places like Lemmy.world are the result.
They’re essentially the worst aspects of Reddit libs distilled into the purest form of shitlibbery you can imagine.
Lemmy.world is basically the USA of Lemmy instances. They showed up one day because a bunch of ex-Redditors decided to make an open source Reddit using the Lemmy name and script, quickly grew to be the largest instance by far and now act like they’re the only instance worth a shit.
Complete clowns.
They are serious. It’s one of the liberal lemmy instances.
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Holy shit .world is a sewer
IAm.AdolfHitler might be the most insufferable instance to read through. It’s so close in tone to the most astroturfed liberal subreddits like r/politics and r/worldnews.
