You know, it’s like you’re walking through the forest, enjoying its beauty, and then you don’t notice how a hungry bear attacks you, even though you were warned about it.
What a shame, when the trap snaps it will be very painful…
You know, it’s like you’re walking through the forest, enjoying its beauty, and then you don’t notice how a hungry bear attacks you, even though you were warned about it.
What a shame, when the trap snaps it will be very painful…
Your instance is the one censoring words like b#tch and more. So if you feel that way thats why.
That’s not fair. Tankies also censor anything even slightly critical of authoritarianism.
Unless it occurs within a “western” sphere of influence. You can do the same or worse in the east. Because they’re hypocrites.
New to lemmy, is there a way to change instance, and can you recommend one?
It depends on what you’re after from a server.
There’s region specific ones, like the server I’m on just now (feddit.uk) being UK themed. That means when I look at my “Local” feed it’s generally filled with content specific to the UK. There’s others for Canada, Netherlands, Denmark, etc, probably US states as well I would assume.
Or maybe you’re after a server with a political ideology. Lemmy.ml is for Marxist-Leninists, dbzer0 and slrpnk.net are for anarchists, and there’s even a MAGA themed server but I forget its name just now and don’t care to go searching.
There’s also servers that aim to be just a general purpose, jack of all trades master of none kind of place. Your server, Lemmy.world probably being the biggest of those. It has a bit of everything and doesn’t really specialise in one particular topic. Probably the closest to a clone of Reddit.
There’s also servers that are supposed to be safe spaces for particular groups of people. For example, blahaj.zone is for LGBTQ+ people (or those just fans of cuddly shark toys).
As markz said, have a browse of this site to see all the servers and see which fits best with what you want from a link aggregator site. There’s nothing stopping you having accounts on different servers for different purposes either. They all have different rules, content, and block lists so the experience on each is unique.
Good luck exploring, welcome to the Fediverse, and have fun!
https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Correction – SLRPNK.net’s admins are all anarchists, but the server is not ‘for’ anarchists. Limiting our membership to anarchists for one means we would have to precisely define what an anarchist is, and then enforce that definition on our membership. In spaces where someone can be ejected for not being anarchist, this leads to attempts by people to censor others by trying to narrow the definition so the people they argue with fall on the wrong side of the line.
We’re looking for people who believe in the value of scientific consensus. We’re building a community that wants society to change to better meet the challenges of resource scarcity, ecological collapse, and increasing authoritarian influence in politics. We celebrate good faith discussion, and discourage trolling and bad rhetoric. We don’t tolerate hate speech and spamming. We believe a diverse set of ideas and approaches are more likely to solve complex problems than adhering to a strict party line. As anarchists and adminstrators, we approach revolution through prefiguration, believe that means and ends are inseparable, and want our server to reflect the society of the future we’d like to live in – one where diversity of thought is foundational in finding creative answers, and people with varying goals and ideals are able to work together to solve shared problems.
Wait… that’s what ml stands for??? I got here because it advertised itself as being for opensource software enthusiasts haha
Yup, Marxist-Leninist.
Unfortunately it’s also home to the largest OSS communities
For others reading; Programming.dev also has quite active FOSS communities, and Beehaw has one as well.
You’ve explained it pretty well. Is there something I’m missing by being on current server? Are they not all connected? Just random differences like mods, and which words are censored and the like. And it sounds like I would have to create a new account if I went to another server? Though you can apparently import/export settings?
Basically “yes” to all of the above, including “not all connected”: Most of them are connected to each other, but some are “defederated”, for example there’s one called Beehaw that isn’t connected to lemmy.world and some of them have chosen not to connect to lemmynsfw.com for reasons.
I see. So instead of muting a single person, it would be like a way to mute whole communities?
Yeah - in the terminology here it would be more like a whole group of communities (since we call each “topic” on an instance a community) but yes.
Admins can (and do) also block individual communities on an instance that is still federated, such as lemmy.world blocking !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com but leaving most of the rest of dbzer0 connected.
You’te probably not missing much since lw is the single largest instance and therefore should have lots of users subscribing to almost everything. Many other instances use a bot that trades subs so everything gets federated.
And yeah, you need a new account, but there are tools to copy your settings and subscriptions.
Unfortunately the only way to change instance is to make a new account there.
For example, sopuli.xyz is relatively large, uncontroversial, and well maintained. https://join-lemmy.org/ has a list of all(?) instances and a thing that lets you filter them by topic and language.
There’s option to export your config and import it to another instance, that lessens the burden somewhat, but yeah it is still a new account.