When I signed up for Lemmy, I didn’t know about some wars that existed between instances, and when I chose lemmy.ml I thought, “Why not?”. Tbh, dont think too much about instances.
I signed up because I wanted to get the full Lemmy experience, but I don’t know if some instances block the instance I’m connected , and this is a bit confusing for me. At the beginning, when I joined Lemmy, I remember reading that it is advisable to choose the instance carefully, and I even assume that it was my mistake, but I think it could be a little easier for those who enter the fediverse. I guess. Know nothing at this time.
So, the question is there. Do you judge members by instance? I’m just a normal guy; I don’t like the extreme right or extreme communism. In fact, I think all extremism is stupid. But , if you could enlighten me on this, I would appreciate it.
At this point, I don’t know if I’m blocked by some instances or not. Basically, I want to enjoy having the entire Lemmy experience, where I could read all types of content.
In your settings you can export a file containing all the communities you have subscribed to. Import that file in the settings of your new account on a new instance and then carry on :)
Short answer: yes
Long answer: some of us even have entire instances blockedlemmy.ml is not just far left, it´s full of fucking tankies. Because of that you might be considered a tankie when using an .ml account. I recommend making an account on a more neutral instance.
For me, it’s out of sight out of mind.
I don’t judge users for their instance. I’ll judge mods and admins for what they promote and allow, but not users. Unless they’re tankies from lemmygrad.
If you’re concerned you should set up accounts on other instances. It’s easy.
And which instance I choose to get the full of experience of Lemmy and see all communities?
None, that’s the point. Your experience and what you see depend upon you and your choices. There’s no true Lemmy experience. The freedom and flexibility is the core of federation. You choose what your experience is, not a central arbitrary algorithm written by a for profit megacorp.
lemmy.world is pretty big, I have my account there
You’ll have to decide on your own. Pick a couple of instances that interest you, then check the list of instances they are federated/defederated with. If you really want to see everything, then pick one that hasn’t defederated with a lot of other instances.
I personally like lemm.ee because the admin is cool and they don’t haphazardly defederate at the slightest inconvenience.
I use lemmy.today. The admin there has explicitly stated in the server rules that they want to try to avoid defederation with other instances – that is, have the users make the decisions as to what they see, not the instance admin. They’re US West Coast, and I think l’d take instance location into account when picking a home instance too, since it affects snappiness.
You can look at the server rules for lemmy instances in the sidebar in the Web UI. You can also see which instances they’ve defederated with, and that can also give you an idea.
Currently, lemmy.today has no defederated instances:
Keep in mind that there’s a lot of stuff out there on the Threadiverse, including far-left and far-right instances. You’ve got instances that have porn communities, like lemmynsfw.com. burggit.moe has lolicon and consentual-nonconsentual content. Some people may want defederation with some instances to ensure that a new community on such an instance doesn’t show up in their All feed or that a new instance that hosts content of some sort generally gets blocked for them – depends on how much you want someone else to censor for you.
A kbin or mbin instance might have the most amount of federation/least restrictive if that’s what you’re concerned with. It’s not lemmy based, but it’s similar.
Kbin.social definitely blocks a lot of nsfw content, but I also see a lot of nsfw communities not being federated on mbin either. At least from lemmynsfw, I’m not too deep into this to know any other with that type of content but that one at least pops up semi-frequently. Might be also possible that kbin / mbin manually lowers the 18+ content in their algorithm so it doesn’t show up as much. Kinda feels like a lot of the 18+ content from let’s say the Ukraine war also doesn’t show up as much on my feed. If I for comparison sake look into my Lemmy based account on mobile then I see a lot of boobies on the general feed.
K/Mbin hides NSFW posts by default and I haven’t try turning it off so I wouldn’t know how it looks without it enabled.
I have never once looked at a user’s instance.
There probably are some people who do, just like how there are people who will judge you based on what brand of pants you wear, but most people are just glad that you’re wearing pants.
You’re not wearing pants, are you?
Right now, I am, but no promises after I get out of work.
Same
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I mean, after basically every second comment I saw from hexbear was tankie nonsense I definitely started judging them differently. They’re extremists who seem to want to turn everything into a debate. So I made sure to block them. Most instances are fine though, and are indeed not that different than the brand of pants someone wears: not something I really care about.
I did before .world degenerated from .LemmyGrad. Other than that, it’s not something I care about
lol, I’m not sure if that’s a typo or not.
In fact, I think all extremism is stupid.
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For the most part I judge communities based on their instance, not the people. I might be more inclined to block you if you can something sketchy but probably not. But if a server get super toxic/tankie, I may block the whole server. lemmy.ml isn’t there yet.
I don’t judge people based on their instance. Although, there are a few instances I have just straight up blocked because their users just cause way too many problems.
That said? If someone is being a jerk, I will look at their instance and quite often have a “yeah, that checks out”. I don’t really have any issues with lemmy.ml but I have definitely noticed a “type” of user. Not bad enough to block the instance but enough that it often counts as two strikes as far as I am concerned. Be a jerk and I see you are from lemmy.ml? Good odds I just block you then and there rather than checking your comment history to see if this is a recurring theme or not.
Which ones did you block? I blocked lemmygrad and hexbear. Helped my blood pressure a lot I think.
Same. I got brigaded in my first 24 hours because I corrected someone on a RUS/UKR disinfo comment they made. Nearly made me leave. I’ve blocked both instances in my client but I still occasionally see them pop up for some reason regardless of the alt account I’m on.
All else held equal, I’d guess that someone on a .ml instance is more likely to be far left, just as someone on pawb.social is a furry, lemmy.blahaj.zone to be trans, or aussie.zone to be Australian. Does that mean that everyone on all of those instances are any of those? No, of course not.
And lemmy.ml was the second-largest instance during the outflow from Reddit, so a lot of people just grabbed it.
Personally, in choosing an instance, it probably wouldn’t be the one I’d choose. I also wouldn’t pick it because it’s gonna be where the latest release gets put into production first and you’re liable to crash into any issues. On the other hand, if you’ve established an identity there and are otherwise happy with it…shrugs
Some instances, like hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml, are far-out-there enough that some instances might defederate with the instance, which I think is probably a bigger concern. I don’t think that that’s nearly as much a risk with lemmy.ml.
.ml is the country code for mali and is often used bc it’s very cheap
Yeah, I know, but the reason that the lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml crowd is using it isn’t because of association with Mali.
People, myself included, aren’t fond of lemmy.ml because it pretends to be a privacy-centric instance but it’s actually run by people who defend any and every criticism of Russia and China under the guise of critiquing capitalism.
They commonly say that any bad news about China or Russia is western orphans while everything from their state-run “news” platforms in gospel.
They’re unable to say that two things are true at once, like capitalism is a pure shit system AND China and Russia are fucked for a million reasons specific to them.
People get banned from their server for saying that China is anything but a utopian dream.
And then, yes, people unfairly assume that you must be cool with all that because you’re using their instance. If you’re not married to the idea of staying there, I’d suggest deleting your account and using a different instance.
When I first found about Lemmy I landed on join-lemmy.org, which told me lemmy.ml is big instance ran by the Lemmy developers, so it sounded like the most “default” option.
Now this thread tells me it has some political affiliation and many people judge/block it… How is someone who only found out about Lemmy supposed to know this.
Last week I made a comment on some post on the /all page. The post was about china and my comment was fairly china positive, imo. A couple hours later I opened my phone again and my inbox was flooded with weird responses as if I had insulted someone’s mother. Turned out it was a post on lemmy.ml. I have the instance blocked now.
Fuk em.
On one side you’re expected to register to an instance that suits you; like, anime fans in ani.social, people interested in LGBT+ topics in blahaj.zone, so goes on. And there’s that common knowledge that, if you feel out-of-place in an instance, you can register to another.
On another, people know that plenty other people don’t know (or don’t care) about instances. And sometimes you get really clueless posters, specially recent redditfugees.
So yes, you’ll be judged by some people. Not by everyone. (Personally I use the user’s instance as a heuristic factor on the type of user that I’m dealing with. But on its own it’s simply too little info to conclude anything.)
Now, regarding specifically lemmy.ml: I was part of that instance for a few years, so be aware that you might run into problems later on because the admin team there is prone to enforce hidden rules. Still, I don’t expect you to be judged based on any “strong” stereotype regarding that instance, as it used to be the flagship instance, so you got plenty “random” users there.
