I’ve heard people talking about e.g. not subscribing to lemmy.world communities (because they are the largest instance), and others like Lemmygrad seems to be defederated by quite many instances. But what about lemmy.ml? Should that instance and those communities also be avoided? The “issue” is that many large communities seem to be based on that instance. Like !privacy@lemmy.ml and !linux@lemmy.ml

  • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I would recommend completely ignoring what Instance people/communities are hosted on

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I generally do, but every once in a while I’ll encounter some very interesting circlejerks and realize that I ended up in the lemmy.ml version of AskLemmy, lol

      • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        To be fair, the .ml version is the largest so you’ll inevitably see a mix of both thoughtful comments, and horribly stupid comments.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Depends on how you feel about communists

    As far as far left instances go, ml is actually pretty unspicy, despite the bee in their bonnet people got.

    So like, if you can’t stand hanging out with em pinko commies, avoid it. If you’re fine with that, don’t.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The genuine commies are totally fine. It’s the authoritarian apologists that need to fuck right off.