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-

  • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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    Lol. Ml is one of the most widely federated instances. Just be fucking honest that this is about trying to hide views you disagree with and not “not really experiencing the Lemmy experience that I’m recommending”.

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      Dude hexbear and grad giga suck, ml at least generally has more normal people but the admin is a tankie as well. Part of your experience of something includes whether there are insane hateful comments, what’s with the weird minimizing of “just different opinions?”

      Go look at the thread of my instance defederating from hexbear, do you think all those people just hallucinated the toxicity? Ml is much better but does have a significantly higher portion of tankies who will minimize atrocities. No normal person wants to deal with that.

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        Nobody’s saying the creators of Lemmy (and therefore the admins of .ml) aren’t communists, but .ml itself is mostly tech/foss content and has no requirements for one’s own political views to make an account. Other instances like Hexbear explicitly describe themselves as “leftist” and do have a political focus.

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          So, this somehow gives the regime an apology to kill and starve their own people? Meanwhile some of the members of the party are living their proletariat lives on private islands. They are on their way to dismantle hierarchy for sure.

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            Do you think Cuba is to blame for its own blackouts? It’s the same thing. At the root you’ll find the US causes starvation.

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              So you ignored the execution part for what purpose? And also Cuba is island without any connections to the mainland. north korea can buy supplies. I agree that all countries need independent economy without sanctions, so the dictatorships could naturally disolve and establish a real dictatorship of the proletariat - democracy or preferably direct democracy. Why no one of you tankies mention a true socialist that was elected by people (not put on the throne by soviets, or like bolsheviks just opressing and ignoring alternative parties like social-revolutionaries, that got the majority in учередительное собрание) like Salvodor Allende , who was killed during CIA-assisted coup.

              Hot take: tankies are the main reason why social-democratic consensus ended.

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                How many fucking times have we seen someone “executed” only to show up alive later? It’s tabloid shit.

                Why no one of you tankies mention a true socialist that was elected by people (not put on the throne by soviets, or like bolsheviks just opressing and ignoring alternative parties like social-revolutionaries, that got the majority in учередительное собрание) like Salvodor Allende , who was killed during CIA-assisted coup.

                That literally demonstrates why electing socialists doesn’t work! They’ll fucking kill you. Or they’ll send in a hit squad to kidnap you and hold you hostage like Maduro. The way to establish socialism is to seize power and then make sure the socialists can’t lose it ever again, not leave yourself vulnerable to US meddling.

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                  Apparently so. It is much easier if you have connection to mainland in terms of living. Yet, you are still ignoring the execution part :/

                  P.S Fuck tankies btw.

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                    Oh no you’ve disarmed me by cosigning my unflattering reflection of your opinion. By agreeing that what you said was fucking stupid as shit, you’ve forced me to respond to the other stupid shit you’ve said.

                    Oh wait.