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Question about instances (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by PixellatedDave@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I have been on Lemmy for a while now but never posted anything as a new post so please forgive me if I am doing anything wrong.

I see that I am part of lemmy.world and that this instance is frowned upon.

Is there a better instance I can join? I am not very clued up on Lemmy and as far as I can see it is made up of lots of different sites which are linked together.

I just want to be part of a healthy group and I am just getting into astronomy so are there any good groups for that please?

If it helps I am based in the UK.

Have a great weekend all.

Edit: sorry for the late response another 6 day week at work. Thank you all so much for the very useful advice!

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

People frown upon lemmy.world because it's a politically American center-right instance on a leftist social media platform that bans leftist discourse via defederation.

If your politics align w them and you don't mind them deciding what you can and can't see on your behalf, you'll do fine there.

I switched from lemmy.world because of that and switched to an instance that doesn't make a habit of defederating from the most active instances (ie hexbear) and there's also another center-right instance named lemm.ee that also doesn't defederate.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't agree with Lemmy world censorship as well and that's why I spinned my own instance. The beauty of a federated environment

[–] PixellatedDave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for the insight

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Np and I can see that you've gotten an introduction to the political culture war that's being waged on lemmy (assuming you weren't already aware). Lol

One more piece of info that I wished someone had given me when I first started is that a huge majority of lemmings are cool; but there are significantly more center-right users than leftist users so you'll see more of the vitriol you witnessed in this post coming from the center-right instances like lemmy.world and lem.ee, but the leftists are a scrappy bunch so they'll respond in kind and mostly from hexbear; hence the defederations.

[–] PixellatedDave@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Ah gotcha. I guess people will be people but I wish it wasn't so easy to divide us so we could work to common good and change but I know that's just a dream.