This includes some porn subreddits as well as subreddits like /r/Drugs. Apparently due to being “unmoderated”, but some were not. What are your thoughts?
Edit: apparently also subreddits like /r/transgender_surgeries are banned too. Definitely feels politically motivated. Edit 2: seems like at least some (?) bans are being undone, like the above mentioned ones.
As someone on lemmy who had never had to pick an instance before, it’s not that hard. The instances have descriptions similar to subreddits. You just pick one that sounds friendly. The problem is lack of content diversity. I’m still on reddit for niche topics, some of which are actually not that niche.
It was confusing for me.
Day 1 ‐ “What’s an instance? Which one is the main one?”
“There is no main one.”
“Which one is the biggest?”
“Well, Lemmy.World is the biggest, but you’re not supposed to pick…”
“I picked Lemmy.World.”
Hello I’m very new. Why not Lemmy.World?
For sure, I’ve always said that for the most part it doesn’t really matter. Make an account on anyone of them and if you don’t align with that instance in the long run you can just hop to a different one.
I did the hop for mastodon but that was mostly because I learned an instance can set a higher character limit and I absolutely hate fucking threads of tweets.
confusion comes from not knowing if youll get all content, most give you all content
Yeah but it will also influence your all feed, which is the main way of finding content when there’s no specific community for your interests.
Or sometimes you run into the propaganda instances/users if you pick wrong.
It becomes a hassle and we know normal people don’t want to even try.
For me, it was kbin.social - but kbin and lemmy didn’t play well together when I joined (and now it’s in its current state). Then I picked lemmy.world - and they went down one day due to the influx of users. Then I picked sh.itjust.works and I’ve been happy ever since. I’ll be staying here until the day I spin up my own instance.
However, if they become regulars, I think they eventually find communities they’d rather identify with.
One of us…