Someone give me a long list of communities to join and which ones to avoid. I don’t wanna be near the tankies. Thank you!

  • sbv@sh.itjust.works
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    Just browse the All feed and subscribe to the stuff you like. At this point many instances block .ml and hexbear, so you’ll be fine.

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      11 hours ago

      May I ask what those instances are? I’m assuming .ml is Marxist Leninism (mask off) but idk what hexbear is. Are there any instances which are specific to my interests such as anime and music?

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        • lemmy.ml is one of the original instances, run by Lemmy developers Dessalines and crew. ML for them stands for “Marxism-Leninism”, not “Mali.” They have a reputation for censoring criticism of Russia and China, but have a number of mainstream-ish communities.
        • hexbear recently lost the Hexbear.net domain name due to a registration screwup. Last I heard they are hosted at chapo.chat. They have a reputation for “dunking” on non-tankies.
        • lemmygrad.ml I know the least about, as I’ve been defederated for nearly my whole Lemmy lifetime. Allegedly pretty tankies.
        • ani.social seems like it may specialise in anime stuff. I blocked several of their communities in grounds of not labelling nsfw. That’s about as much as I know.

        Update: it seems that hexbear.net is back to hosting hexbear.net.

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          ani.social seems like it may specialise in anime stuff. I blocked several of their communities in grounds of not labelling nsfw. That’s about as much as I know.

          The problem is definition of NSFW is different for all Lemmy user. One time I posted a Official Art of [email protected] and it got reported for not labelling NSFW. That pic doesn’t even have any thing like Fanservice or Showing Clothes. Just normal School Uniform.

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        Hexbear was worse, very pro China/Russia/North Korea, but I think they didn’t renew their domain license, so the server went down. Lemmygrad is the same way, I think it’s still active. .ml I didn’t think is too bad, just block yogthos or whether their name is.

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          I’ve found it easier to block ML communities. A lot of the people on ML aren’t that bad, but you WILL get banned from the entirety of ML for any criticism of russia china and north korea. The mods really aren’t scared to abuse their power. I’d rather not participate.