Criteria: I’m looking for instances that are defed’ with the Big 3 tankies (lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, and hexbear). I have no interest in trying to persuade my friends to create an acc and set up instance blocks before diving in, or dealing with the feedback when they run into the tankie brigade.

Edit: lemmy.cafe and infosec.pub seem to fit. I also find it really interesting just how many of the replies totally ignored my stated criteria.

    • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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      93 months ago

      I have noticed a lot of accounts from that instance being quickly created and banned. I don’t know if they’re trolls or spambots, but it seems like they don’t have very good control over who creates an account there.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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        123 months ago

        I think I found the best one:

        infosec.pub

        has 4186 total users and 335 active users

        seems more active than the .cafe that the other user suggested

        Good luck with converting more people to join Lemmy!

  • Pasta Dental
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    -43 months ago

    Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works are both really good. IIRC .world is hosted in Germany and sh.ithust.works in Canada east coast

    • AwesomeLowlanderOP
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      53 months ago

      I have no interest in trying to persuade my friends to create an acc and set up instance blocks before diving in

      lemmy.ml is not as tankie, but that bar is the height of my little toe.

          • Skiluros
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            03 months ago

            I don’t really see it. A lot of the posts in that community don’t even explicitly state what community is being discussed.

            Some of the stuff is legitimate, some of the stuff feels more like bitching.

            I don’t really understand how you can claim LW is the worst considering that on ML you get instance banned for opposing the russian invasion of Ukraine or having a critical attitude towards China.

            • AwesomeLowlanderOP
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              23 months ago

              I didn’t claim LW is the worst. As per my post, the worst offenders are hexbear, lemmygrad and lemmy.ml. .world is not a monolith, and I have nothing major against the admins. I was specifically referring to the 3 news subs on .world as problematic.

              • Skiluros
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                13 months ago

                To be fair I was replying to a thread that said LW/ML are equal and something about fascism in LW.

                I just don’t think they are as problematic as you imply. Are there issues? Sure (I be have my own complaints), but generally those communities seem somewhat usable.

                • AwesomeLowlanderOP
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                  13 months ago

                  To be fair I was replying to a thread that said LW/ML are equal and something about fascism in LW.

                  I think you may have misread the thread, since I don’t see anything in the comments above yours saying that.