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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[–] Wren@lemmy.today 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I joined Lemmy.today to see all the instances, they don't block anyone. I expected chaos, but it's richer. To be fair, I rarely browse 'All,' instead sticking to subscribed coms where the backwards-speaking wanderers from hexbear are more of a feature than a bug.

Now it's my main account.

PR Edit: I meant no offense to the good people of hexbear, I'm just confused by your ways.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 15 points 2 days ago

Browsing /subscribed only is definitely the way.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

IIRC a few instances are de-federated from .today due to how rightwing/conservative it is. So it's a bit like shadowbanning yourself.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Edit: Just checked, Lemmy.Today isn't blocked by any instances.

~~Last I checked .today was defederated by one instance, don't know why.~~ I'm open to more info.

The description and the rules are boilerplate, no bigotry or transphobia kind of thing. The admins have been helpful and responsive. I can see why conservatives would join an instance like this, but there's nothing inherently conservative about it.

When I joined the most-visited local community was conservative, but they're pretty tame by right wing standards. A couple of the mods posted left-leaning articles to my community, too.

I don't pay attention to a lot of Lemmy drama unless it crosses my feed, so I could be wrong.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The rules on Lemmy.ml are innocuous too, fwiw.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As are the rules of most instances.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

so using the rules as a metric is like the points on who’s line

[–] Wren@lemmy.today -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Let's examine that.

The points on Who's Line don't matter, as a rule - but they do matter because they give the rankings at the end of the show. If the points really didn't matter, we wouldn't know about them. "Points" wouldn't be a subject on the show, and yet they come up at the end of every skit. One person even tallied them up. The points mattered to them, a lot.

Anyway, do you have information or were you just itching to make that quip?

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social -1 points 1 day ago

beep boop