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I've slowly become familiar with lemmy and learned the things like blahajj is an ally of trans but hides downvotes and kbin shows how you vote to others etcetc. i don't even know what hexbear is but hear it's ideologically wonky.

Lots of Lemmy instances basically have some decent aspects, but then something about them is a total dealbreaker.

I've started looking at moderation histories when coming across content removed by moderators and am now able to distinguish instances where ideologies not aligned with their admins get censored. I first noticed it when checking why certain posts were removed on Lemmy.ml and had to research lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don't want. I had a run in with a drama on Lemmy.world and curiously checked their mod log to realize that they actually quite often remove comments that don't match their ideology (along with finding controversial historical actions of .world).

So after all this getting to know instances involved in lemmy, you know which one has no weird dealbreaker attributes that I know of? I just realized tonight which one it is...

sh.itjust.works

So cheers everyone.

Admins and Mods here you are doing great. Community, you are doing great too. grats on being the best instance

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[-] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 1 points 43 minutes ago

I think some guy on reddit told me this was the best Canadian instance. Glad I'm here, they were right.

[-] Draconic_NEO@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

I agree, as it stands sh.itjust.works has one of the best instances in my opinion. At least for users who are new to Lemmy since it has the easiest signup and is also very stable.

[-] UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yep, you're right. This is the best instance in the fediverse! I love it here.

[-] ElPsyKongroo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 22 hours ago

I came here since Reddit killed third party apps, so I don't even remember how I chose my instance anymore. I guess someone recommended sh.itjust.works somewhere? Tbh I don't know a lot of the differences between instances (except some well known ones like tankie .ml), but I have no complaints about this instance I'm on. Although I'm not really super active, in all fairness.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Oh god, that username lol... MY EYES

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago

In Thunder, you can disable display names. All I see is "allo".

[-] isildun@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago

It's because this place is run by TheDude. As we all know: TheDude abides.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My only requirements for an instance are:

  1. It works

  2. It's not run by or full of fascists

  3. It's furry

There were two choices. Now there is one. Thankfully the other one only fails item 1.

But this instance is cool, too. And db0.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

Db0 is pretty fucking dope ngl. Their piracy megathread alone brings them over the top. The lack of censorship is just icing on the cake.

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago

I chose it for the clever URL not knowing much when I first came to lemmy. Happy circumstance that it ended up being a solid choice. :)

Cheers to the mods and admins for making this a great place.

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[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

hexbear is but hear it's ideologically wonky.

Understatement of the year LMAO

lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don't want.

Uh nah, they're tankies, they're authoritarian communists essentially

[-] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago

they’re authoritarian communists essentially

With an utterly broken sense of what is or isn't communism or socialism. So many of them still going to bat for Russia, which has objectively not been socialist since the wall fell, and arguably long before that.

[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

uh I just picked lemmy.ml pretty randomly when I moved from Reddit, though I specifically picked it over lemmygrad because I'd heard lemmygrad was full of tankies. personally, I'm a left libertarian. I'm not auth at all.

I think you might be overestimating how much a user's home lemmy indicates their ideology.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 22 hours ago

No, it's definitely full of tankies. I got banned for calling someone out for saying, "You have to give Donald Trump credit for brokering peace in Israel" about a week or so ago (I just followed-up with them yesterday after Israel, shockingly, shattered that ceasefire, and I've been ignored).

Maybe not all of the mods/admins, but enough that someone will ban you for going against the Russian narrative.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

.ml is a tankie instance not because of the bulk of the users, I do not judge any user, .ml or otherwise, until I have seen them or seen evidence of them commenting Tankie ideology or defending it.

.ml is deemed a tankie instance because the admins and many of the mods not only are hardcore tankies themselves but also enforce the ideology throughout their instance via admin/mod action

.ml is the most subtle of the Tankie Triad and because they host some official Lemmy support comms often get treated with "kid gloves" by the other instances and don't get defed'd from like the rest of the tankie triad does (Hexbear and Lemmygrad)

Checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works if you want to see more

Actually, because the .ml admins block that comm so you can't see it, you'll need to use this link through another instance: https://lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago

The Canadian lemmy instance lemmy.ca is pretty cool. (Though sh.itjust.works is also Canadian)

[-] bund@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

lol exactly why i came here but juste used the ~vibe~ -o-meter to know it was here that the internet should just be a stupid forum for stupid posts for stupid people stupid is interchangeable with funny

[-] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 days ago

Shit just works, it's in the name.

Shhhh it just works

[-] tyler@programming.dev 55 points 2 days ago

All votes are public on lemmy, no matter what instance. It’s how federation works.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

There's at least one server that uses dummy accounts for vote federation to keep the voters anonymous.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 9 hours ago

if you could link a source on that I'm interested.

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

This place is cool. Thanks admins for your great work

[-] med@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

Here is where I started, here my I be hurried. Love the ethos, love the mods, love the stability! (Great job @TheDude@sh.itjust.works).

Also, SJWBot still makes me laugh every time I see it.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

sopuli is chill

[-] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

I don't think it would be fair to credit sh.it just.works as the only instance with no dealbreaker, but it has served me very well ever since the reddit api changes.

[-] allo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

tru. most of the ones mentioned here ive never seen anything negative about (tho havent checked all their mod logs). yeah maybe to say 'best' is less accurate than 'among the handful that are the best' (or mouthful if one has no hands)

[-] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 44 points 2 days ago

Lemm.ee is great too. It's just.. there. And I love it

[-] Bubs12@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Its great. I definitely got lucky when i randomly picked it back during the migration.

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 days ago

Zip as well. We're just...exists.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

The instance admin commented on rules a while back: "Number one rule is to not make us ban you". And I think that tends to curate a userbase that are able to behave themselves without needing a defined set of rules to live by. Rules are one thing, but if you need common sense spelled out for you, you're probably not the kind of user I need/want around anyway.

[-] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago

This place and dbzer0 are my favorites.

[-] zugzwang@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

I started on .world when I first learned about Lemmy, but recently found dbzer0 and realized I finally found my people.

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[-] rbn@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago

sopuli.xyz and feddit.org are also pretty decent IMO.

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