The Fediverse is huge and overwhelming to a newcomer, with many different types and each with servers to pick from. Which ones would you suggest checking out or avoiding?
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Lemmy.ml ofc. "Tankie" instance made by the actual lemmy devs.
I joined lemmy.ml after the reddit APIcalypse because it was the largest one at the time, about 3 years ago. The "tankie fascist" thing has been very interesting, I see it as a very effective tool for groupthink people to out themselves on. I'm a soft-leaning socialist if anything, not very politically involved, but the angry emotional groupthink people actually gives zero fucks about what I think. They just see .ml, decide in their own heads what I think and what "team" I'm on, and call me a tankie fascist! It's hilarious actually, I don't even have to say anything and those type of thinkers just present themselves for me to block. And thank god for how easy it is to curate Lemmy with blocks!
Over time it has become a very cool place with many views and interesting people from different paths of life discussing everything quite civilly.
I especially like the meta posts about inter-instance squabbling. They're goldmines for my block list.
I mean, I'm an 'anarkiddie' according to actual tankies, but I don't broadly discriminate against .ml users, most of them are great!
... but, a lot of .ml powermods do things like declare the Xi Poohbear meme to be inherently racist, even though it was literally created by Chinese netizens.
Or, god help you if you attempt to discuss the Holodomor.
Yeah I'm sure if MAGA types were still calling Obama "Tigger" to this day, you'd insist it wasn't racist?