I haven’t checked Lemmy for a long time but I wanna get off Reddit again, yet I still need to know how many users are on here. Which lemmy instances are suitable to me, the most popular, and which ones to avoid? For context, im queer, anarchist with DemSoc leaning, and environmentalist. Is there a comprehensive list of all the instances and their main functions? Is the instance I’m on still workable? Any feedback would help, thx. <3

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
    74·
    11 days ago

    IIRC a few instances are de-federated from .today due to how rightwing/conservative it is. So it’s a bit like shadowbanning yourself.

    • Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish
      41·
      10 days ago

      Edit: Just checked, Lemmy.Today isn’t blocked by any instances.

      Last I checked .today was defederated by one instance, don’t know why. I’m open to more info.

      The description and the rules are boilerplate, no bigotry or transphobia kind of thing. The admins have been helpful and responsive. I can see why conservatives would join an instance like this, but there’s nothing inherently conservative about it.

      When I joined the most-visited local community was conservative, but they’re pretty tame by right wing standards. A couple of the mods posted left-leaning articles to my community, too.

      I don’t pay attention to a lot of Lemmy drama unless it crosses my feed, so I could be wrong.

            • Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish
              12·
              10 days ago

              Let’s examine that.

              The points on Who’s Line don’t matter, as a rule - but they do matter because they give the rankings at the end of the show. If the points really didn’t matter, we wouldn’t know about them. “Points” wouldn’t be a subject on the show, and yet they come up at the end of every skit. One person even tallied them up. The points mattered to them, a lot.

              Anyway, do you have information or were you just itching to make that quip?