Or something that goes a bit deeper onto each instance and explains them better? I have a mutual on mastodon that I recommended Lemmy to, and tried to link join-lemmy.org/instances, but it doesn't really do much to warn about hexbear/lemmygrad/.ml/etc. Those instances are defederated from a LOT of lemmy and i don't want my moot to sign up there and not even know that they're not really experiencing the Lemmy experience that I'm recommending.

I don't wanna start a war in the comments about instance dramas, I just wanna find a better resource to recommend Lemmy as a 'reddit alternative' -w-

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[–] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

Did you know that the reason “tankies” created Lemmy in the first place was because Reddit kept banning anything left of neoliberalism? All corporate social media platforms suppress anti-capitalists, and they especially suppress Marxist-Leninists, because they represent the most serious threat to capitalism.

Edit to add: Also, lemmy.ml is one of the most federated instances.

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  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago (6 children)

    does lemmy.ml federate hexbear?

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago* (5 children)

    Yes. It federates with everyone except for spam instances and fascist instances.

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  • [–] 0 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

    isn't hexbear an online Nazi stronghold?

    are Nazis not fascist anymore?

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    ah.

    that must be why it was defederated by so many mainstream communities.

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  • [–] [S] 27 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    ALSO it would be SO cool to see a map where instances are mapped by federation and bigger if they had a lot of users, like thefedi verse logo but actual instances

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    Someone who supports socialist state regardless of human rights violations. You'll get a million other responses but the through line is that tankies support existing socialism at the cost of human lives.

    they're called tankies because they represent the tank in this picture.

    1000004667

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    People who love authoritarianism and intentionally skip over their atrocities, the term "tankie" refers to how the military (tanks) were used to crush the rebellions of many authoritarian regimes, notably, the Hungarian uprising in 1956 being crushed by the Warsaw Pact and the Tianamen square massacre in 1989 by the PRC.

    It's usually used to refer to supporters of the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, etc. who deny all the bad, inhuman things about those states.

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    [–] 14 points 1 week ago*

    You can join from voyager app, and the three instances aren't listed by default, or so it seems at least

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