I came here since Reddit killed third party apps, so I don't even remember how I chose my instance anymore. I guess someone recommended sh.itjust.works somewhere? Tbh I don't know a lot of the differences between instances (except some well known ones like tankie .ml), but I have no complaints about this instance I'm on. Although I'm not really super active, in all fairness.
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
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Oh god, that username lol... MY EYES
In Thunder, you can disable display names. All I see is "allo".
To be honest I don't like their name so I've been avoiding it just for that reason
My only requirements for an instance are:
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It works
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It's not run by or full of fascists
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It's furry
There were two choices. Now there is one. Thankfully the other one only fails item 1.
But this instance is cool, too. And db0.
Db0 is pretty fucking dope ngl. Their piracy megathread alone brings them over the top. The lack of censorship is just icing on the cake.
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It's because this place is run by TheDude. As we all know: TheDude abides.
lol exactly why i came here but juste used the ~vibe~ -o-meter to know it was here that the internet should just be a stupid forum for stupid posts for stupid people stupid is interchangeable with funny
This place is cool. Thanks admins for your great work
I chose it for the clever URL not knowing much when I first came to lemmy. Happy circumstance that it ended up being a solid choice. :)
Cheers to the mods and admins for making this a great place.
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The Canadian lemmy instance lemmy.ca is pretty cool. (Though sh.itjust.works is also Canadian)
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Here is where I started, here my I be hurried. Love the ethos, love the mods, love the stability! (Great job @[email protected]).
Also, SJWBot still makes me laugh every time I see it.
sopuli is chill
I don't think it would be fair to credit sh.it just.works as the only instance with no dealbreaker, but it has served me very well ever since the reddit api changes.
tru. most of the ones mentioned here ive never seen anything negative about (tho havent checked all their mod logs). yeah maybe to say 'best' is less accurate than 'among the handful that are the best' (or mouthful if one has no hands)
hexbear is but hear it's ideologically wonky.
Understatement of the year LMAO
lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don't want.
Uh nah, they're tankies, they're authoritarian communists essentially
they’re authoritarian communists essentially
With an utterly broken sense of what is or isn't communism or socialism. So many of them still going to bat for Russia, which has objectively not been socialist since the wall fell, and arguably long before that.
uh I just picked lemmy.ml pretty randomly when I moved from Reddit, though I specifically picked it over lemmygrad because I'd heard lemmygrad was full of tankies. personally, I'm a left libertarian. I'm not auth at all.
I think you might be overestimating how much a user's home lemmy indicates their ideology.
No, it's definitely full of tankies. I got banned for calling someone out for saying, "You have to give Donald Trump credit for brokering peace in Israel" about a week or so ago (I just followed-up with them yesterday after Israel, shockingly, shattered that ceasefire, and I've been ignored).
Maybe not all of the mods/admins, but enough that someone will ban you for going against the Russian narrative.
There's heavy handed moderation in .ml communities that people hold big grudges about, and that's mostly about it.
.ml is a tankie instance not because of the bulk of the users, I do not judge any user, .ml or otherwise, until I have seen them or seen evidence of them commenting Tankie ideology or defending it.
.ml is deemed a tankie instance because the admins and many of the mods not only are hardcore tankies themselves but also enforce the ideology throughout their instance via admin/mod action
.ml is the most subtle of the Tankie Triad and because they host some official Lemmy support comms often get treated with "kid gloves" by the other instances and don't get defed'd from like the rest of the tankie triad does (Hexbear and Lemmygrad)
Checkout [email protected] if you want to see more
Actually, because the .ml admins block that comm so you can't see it, you'll need to use this link through another instance: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
Hey now, get down offa your soapbox cm0002! Don't let your passion derail the thread now...
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Shit just works, it's in the name.
Shhhh it just works
The instance admin commented on rules a while back: "Number one rule is to not make us ban you". And I think that tends to curate a userbase that are able to behave themselves without needing a defined set of rules to live by. Rules are one thing, but if you need common sense spelled out for you, you're probably not the kind of user I need/want around anyway.
All votes are public on lemmy, no matter what instance. It’s how federation works.
There's at least one server that uses dummy accounts for vote federation to keep the voters anonymous.
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