It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago by SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

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.