I’ve slowly become familiar with lemmy and learned the things like blahajj is an ally of trans but hides downvotes and kbin shows how you vote to others etcetc. i don’t even know what hexbear is but hear it’s ideologically wonky.

Lots of Lemmy instances basically have some decent aspects, but then something about them is a total dealbreaker.

I’ve started looking at moderation histories when coming across content removed by moderators and am now able to distinguish instances where ideologies not aligned with their admins get censored. I first noticed it when checking why certain posts were removed on Lemmy.ml and had to research lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don’t want. I had a run in with a drama on Lemmy.world and curiously checked their mod log to realize that they actually quite often remove comments that don’t match their ideology (along with finding controversial historical actions of .world).

So after all this getting to know instances involved in lemmy, you know which one has no weird dealbreaker attributes that I know of? I just realized tonight which one it is…

sh.itjust.works

So cheers everyone.

Admins and Mods here you are doing great. Community, you are doing great too. grats on being the best instance

    • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      25 days ago

      You can communicate with either using your existing account as we are doing now.
      If you prefer an instance’s rules or vibes you can choose to make one your home by making an account there, but otherwise we’re all federated and you can engage from whichever.

    • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
      5·
      25 days ago

      No you don’t need another login. It’s just that communities on that instance are more chill. You can find the same communities across different instances but the ones on certain instances will ban you for almost nothing.

      Edit: forgot to mention you can only create a community of your own on the instance where your account is located.

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
      5·
      25 days ago

      You only need one login to post on any instance, but I would recommend having multiple logins just in case the instance you picked (lemmy.world) shuts down for any reason. Your comment/post history is linked to your instance of choice.

      A commonly mentioned comparison for how instances work is email. Let’s say that you have a Gmail account, for example. You can email people with a Yahoo email address, but you can only access your inbox by going to Gmail. Different instances basically function like how different email providers do. They have their own design and rules to follow, but anyone can communicate anyone.

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      25 days ago

      I have lemm.ee as my backup for when aussie.zone is down

      For use like that you do need another login, just go to https://lemm.ee/ and make a login

      There are browser scripts to copy your subscriptions from one instance login to another