Submitted 1 day ago by MichaeleanDouglasse@thelemmy.club to [deleted]
I joined this one because I just followed the obvious ways to sign up after looking up what Lemmy was about. I didn’t know about instances until I tried to sign in and had to find mine.
Is there a way to mess up making an alt by joining an unfit instance? From what I’ve read, it doesn’t really matter outside of an instance going down and your profile going with it.
Any help is appreciated.
Don’t worry too much about the instances, for the most part they are not that important. There are a few outliers tho:
There are also a bunch of outlaw instances, either far-right or tolerating CSAM. These you can only stumble upon if you actively search for them - they are defederated in a pretty coordinated effort, simply because due to the way lemmy works, their content would be replicated, creating a legal nightmare, and of course no respectable admin wants to touch that stuff.
Id say what are your preferences… If you want mainstream for main stuff, Lemmy.world. if you want piracy or anarchy, lemmy.dbzer0.com is great. If you are from Canada Lemmy.ca is good. What’s bad? Opinionated. .ml is large but has backlash, .hexbear sees a lot of backlash, but not knowing you… It’s open game
Yeah, I guess that would be it. Music, anime, television. Maybe some random hobby stuff.
Just join any instance and then subscribe to communities that relate to those interests. You don’t have to browse All or even Local.
You can do this with the account you’re posting with right now it you want.
the tankies, like another user mentioned, are very hyper-political authotarian with a “left wing narrative”, if you imagine conservatives, this would be the exact opposite(with the exact same authotarian nature).
If authoritarianism is a metric, liberals are topping the leaderboard. they will literally defend a system that unpersons you if you can’t pay rent
Just keep away from the tankie quadriga: lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, hexbear.net, dbz0
dbzo seems like the newest one, and also that startrek website person, he was wierdly crossbanning people.
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 day ago
Pretty much it’s like an e-mail service overall. obviously for the “MOST” part you can join any instance and it will let you view content on almost any other instance.
Like say beehaw I believe defederates from instances that don’t have verification steps at the start.
instances like lemmy.ml, lemmygrad etc… are considered tankie, so a handful of places defederate them. and I believe a few like hexbear that tend to lean right and get defederated by most.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
“considered” lol
Nobody would be surprised if it leaked tomorrow that they’re literally operated out of the Kremlin or military city Beijing.
MichaeleanDouglasse@thelemmy.club 23 hours ago
Wait, is “tankie” a synonym for fascist or something? I thought it meant durable. Lol
Diva@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
lemmy.ml is actually pretty widely federated, but defederates most/all nsfw. hexbear is marxist/anarchist, not right wing lmao
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 day ago
ah got it, kind of never really dug that much in, just see it mentioned as extremist, so admitted getting some flipped going off of vague info
MichaeleanDouglasse@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
I’m sorry, but I don’t understand most of what you said.
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 day ago
The super simplified version of it is.
some instances block other instances. Either due to political differences or because too many spammers are in one etc… Bottom line, if it’s not linked or blocked, you won’t be able to see posts to them, and people on those instances won’t see posts you make from your own, (creates kind of a shadow ban, where you think you are posting, but no one over there can see it).
you can see if you go to
thelemmy.club/instances
you can see a list of instances they’ve linked with, and blocked.
compare that to say beehaw
beehaw.org/instances
You’ll see there’s a big difference in what they do and don’t federate with. Which could be good or bad depending on how you look at it.
If you have a community or 2 that you really care about, it’s worth checking to make sure their instance you want to post to and read the posts of, is friendly with the one you don’t