Yo I heard everyone is moving over to Lemmy

Someone give me a long list of communities to join and which ones to avoid. I don’t wanna be near the tankies. Thank you!

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here's a good list of communities I came across today, subbed to a bunch myself
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/17176543
as everyone else has said most instances are chill but avoid the tankie triad

I think @Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com has a list of ML comm replacements somewhere.

Nice! Welcome and congratulations on making the move!
Outside of avoiding the three tankie instances (.ml, lemmygrad, Hexbear), you don't need to worry too much about which instances a community is on. Just search for the most active ones (there's a community search at the top of the page) and hop in!

The tankies are concentrated on three main instances so basically you can either block those completely or just don’t participate in any communities on them. Some do visit the non-politics coms there but I think they always end up interpreting things in a political lens so I avoid them all.
The instances are Lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and Hexbear.net.
- Actually a lot of the more debate-bro tankies tend to make alts elsewhere to argue. By blocking the big three (if they're federate), you're usually just avoiding the ones who are not very argumentative and of course all the campist-flavored topics which might be annoying.
  
  I find it easier to block the communities. I’d rather not post content on an instance where I’ll be banned for calling China capitalist lol
  
  Yea, but unfortunately the admins and mods of the Tankie Triad are the biggest Tankies around and enforce that through (ironic, because they always complain about censorship) mod action
  So the best course of action, if you're not on an instance that defed's from them, is to not reward their comms with activity. A total boycott, no posts, no comments, no upvotes. With a little luck, all the non-tankie users will gradually shift over
  
  Ran into several fresh accounts this week alone. TankieTanuki and something with "Stalin" in the name were the more obvious ones (I say like a random hours old account complaining about NATO in two separate threads and nothing else isn't obvious).
  
  Yeah there's a few of those on world and probably other instances I'm sure. I block them when I see them
  
  Yeah I don’t personally do that but I’m just presenting the options. It doesn’t bother me to interact with tankies I just hate their censored safe spaces rife with misinformation.

Just browse the All feed and subscribe to the stuff you like. At this point many instances block .ml and hexbear, so you'll be fine.
- It's grad and hex that most instances defed from, .ml is more subtle and hosts a number of official Lemmy software support forums, so not many do defed from them. Unfortunately.
  
  Its so unfortunate how most linux distro instances are hosted on .ml
- May I ask what those instances are? I’m assuming .ml is Marxist Leninism (mask off) but idk what hexbear is. Are there any instances which are specific to my interests such as anime and music?
  
  lemmy.ml is one of the original instances, run by Lemmy developers Dessalines and crew. ML for them stands for "Marxism-Leninism", not "Mali." They have a reputation for censoring criticism of Russia and China, but have a number of mainstream-ish communities.
  hexbear recently lost the Hexbear.net domain name due to a registration screwup. Last I heard they are hosted at chapo.chat. They have a reputation for "dunking" on non-tankies.
  lemmygrad.ml I know the least about, as I've been defederated for nearly my whole Lemmy lifetime. Allegedly pretty tankies.
  ani.social seems like it may specialise in anime stuff. I blocked several of their communities in grounds of not labelling nsfw. That's about as much as I know.
  Update: it seems that hexbear.net is back to hosting hexbear.net.
  
  Hexbear was worse, very pro China/Russia/North Korea, but I think they didn't renew their domain license, so the server went down. Lemmygrad is the same way, I think it's still active. .ml I didn't think is too bad, just block yogthos or whether their name is.

Several communities of the same name are emerging here- search for them, and key words similar to your communities.
It’s still pretty small comparatively, but growing exponentially.

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