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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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[–] prototype_g2@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Interested in astronomy you say? Well mander.xyz describe themselves as a "An instance dedicated to nature and science.". They have a astronomy community with, some activity - !astronomy@mander.xyz. I'm not on mander so I don't know how things are there, but I pretty much don't ever see anyone complaining about it.

feddit.uk is a UK instance. So there might be some interesting things there for you.

lemmy.ee is known for not defederating unless absolutely necessary.

On the topic of defederating, lemmy.world is somewhat disliked due to their defederation happy tendencies. For the most part, though, this whole instance wars thing is mostly due to disagreements on what kind of political discourse should be allowed. Instances like lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net and lemmy.ml are a bit too left-wing for many people from the center-right to handle: the world views are just too different.

I could rant about the dam instance wars, but it is not what you came were for.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

lemmy.ee is known for not defederating unless absolutely necessary.

It's "lemm.ee" btw. I'm guessing autocorrect? Gboard ironically made the exact same mistake for me when I tried to correct you.

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

Thanks for the explanation much appreciated