Question about instances

[prototype_g2@lemmy.ml]

Interested in astronomy you say? Well mander.xyz describe themselves as a "An instance dedicated to nature and science.". They have a astronomy community with, some activity - [email protected]. I'm not on mander so I don't know how things are there, but I pretty much don't ever see anyone complaining about it.

feddit.uk is a UK instance. So there might be some interesting things there for you.

lemmy.ee is known for not defederating unless absolutely necessary.

On the topic of defederating, lemmy.world is somewhat disliked due to their defederation happy tendencies. For the most part, though, this whole instance wars thing is mostly due to disagreements on what kind of political discourse should be allowed. Instances like lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net and lemmy.ml are a bit too left-wing for many people from the center-right to handle: the world views are just too different.

I could rant about the dam instance wars, but it is not what you came were for.

[pixellateddave@lemmy.world]

Thanks for the insight

[pixellateddave@lemmy.world]

Good to know

[pixellateddave@lemmy.world]

Lol yeah right

[pixellateddave@lemmy.world]

I will check them out

[pixellateddave@lemmy.world]

Cheers mate will have a look

[pixellateddave@lemmy.world]

That's a great idea

[pixellateddave@lemmy.world]

Thanks for the explanation much appreciated

[shiggles@sh.itjust.works]

It is fucking hilarious for the tankieverse to blame somewhere else for being too hard on censorship lmao y’all really are something

[shiggles@sh.itjust.works]

If you want overtly lefty stuff without the chinese government ball fondling, solarpunk is a pretty good instance, or .blahaj if you’re more interested in social/gender issues.

[gravityowl@lemm.ee]

Um, no? Stop centering your political compass around a new center, where to you current leftists look rightwing according to it

Your reply shows to me that you are unfamiliar with socialism/communism and don't entirely know what you're referring to.

I'm not pushing anything towards the left, the left has always been to the...well, left.

The only thing that has swifted is the fact that a lot more people now are unfamiliar with what constitute as "left" and their perception of what is "extreme left" has changed because of their unfamiliarity with it. And because of right wing propaganda scare tactics like "everything I don't like is communist!"

[omegalemmy@discuss.online]

You are literally calling lemmy.world rightwing and lecturing me that I'm too conscious about communism, and no it's not that I am uneducated about communism because I literally voted for the TIP in turkey

[0ops@lemm.ee]

lemmy.ee is known for not defederating unless absolutely necessary.

It's "lemm.ee" btw. I'm guessing autocorrect? Gboard ironically made the exact same mistake for me when I tried to correct you.

[aussieiuszko@aussie.zone]

Likewise db0 is the anarchist instance. Way more chill and not of that authoritarian genocide worship.

[achyu@lemmy.sdf.org]

They did calmly explain their reasons, while you resort to things like *nobody likes them" generalisations and tankie name calling.

[shiggles@sh.itjust.works]

🥱 cope and seethe, your downvotes mean nothing.

[electric_nan@lemmy.ml]

Obviously you will make up your own mind, but I have had to block shitjustworks entirely, due to the amount of fashposting I've seen from there. For comparison, Lemmy.world often annoys the shit out of me, but I haven't had to block the whole thing. The main thing is how the instance moderates. You can always block users and communities, but those "light-touch moderation" instances will always end up full of the worst people.

[achyu@lemmy.sdf.org]

You didn't raise any better point, right?
So what is there to cope and seethe?

Yes, downvotes are not really a big deal, especially in lemmy.
You don't need to seethe at the downvotes.

[eldavi@lemmy.ml]

Np and I can see that you've gotten an introduction to the political culture war that's being waged on lemmy (assuming you weren't already aware). Lol

One more piece of info that I wished someone had given me when I first started is that a huge majority of lemmings are cool; but there are significantly more center-right users than leftist users so you'll see more of the vitriol you witnessed in this post coming from the center-right instances like lemmy.world and lem.ee, but the leftists are a scrappy bunch so they'll respond in kind and mostly from hexbear; hence the defederations.

[pixellateddave@lemmy.world]

Ah gotcha. I guess people will be people but I wish it wasn't so easy to divide us so we could work to common good and change but I know that's just a dream.