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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[–] lorski@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 hours ago

This thread is wild. I am good on Lemmy. I like sopuli.xyz

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I’m in a similar boat, though I’ve been present for some time.

Dbzer0 seems like the best “fit” for me, but practically I just want the instance that’s not defederated/blocking other instances.

…Not sure which that is. But I’d look at Piefed before Lemmy, since they work together, but Piefed seems more desirable feature-wise.

[–] oculi@anarchist.nexus 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy.sdf.org and lemmy.zip have very lax defederation policies, those might interest you

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Do other instances defederate with them, though?

[–] oculi@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 hour ago

AFAIK no. Lemmy.zip is not problematic and SDF largely stays in the background.

I tried to verify this but the only tool for this stuff, defed.xyz, seems to have shut down 4 months ago, shame.

[–] Pika@rekabu.ru 3 points 2 hours ago

lemmy.today is federated both ways with pretty much all of Lemmy, from .world to tankie triad to beehaw

[–] unruffled@anarchist.nexus 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm honestly embarrassed by the comments on this post. Is this really the best advice we can offer a newcomer to Lemmy? This internecene warfare between instances is not doing us any favours.

[–] Qwel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 34 minutes ago

Yeah. Yikes.

The advice is decent actually. It's the non-advice comments that should just be deleted. Even the advice from that .ml guy is careful. Wouldn't have caused any issue if someone didn't pick the fight while fully aware that there will not be a resolution.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Join multiple for when you get banned in some sub.

[–] url@feddit.fr 2 points 2 hours ago

And donate some money. Don't waste resources

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Not the one you're on.

edit I answered based on the title and now I read the description. You might be on the right instance.

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