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!

  • @mkwt
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    • 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.

    • sag
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      36 hours ago

      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.

      The problem is definition of NSFW is different for all Lemmy user. One time I posted a Official Art of [email protected] and it got reported for not labelling NSFW. That pic doesn’t even have any thing like Fanservice or Showing Clothes. Just normal School Uniform.

        • sag
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          15 hours ago

          But, I never understand. Why would anyone use Lemmy or any social media at work? I am Teen. So, really asking.

          • @Sterile_Technique
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            54 hours ago

            NSFW stands for “not safe for work” - the label literally exists so that users know what to avoid to make the service usable at work without risk of getting fired over it.

            And why wouldn’t you want to use it at work? Breaks are a thing, many people try to spend them trying to recharge by doing something that takes them out of the work mindset for a bit, and Lemmy is perfect for that.

            • @[email protected]
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              34 hours ago

              Yes. It’s not really exclusively about work, though. It applies to families, public transit, anywhere someone might see your screen. It’s not a nudity or gore tag, but a sort of inoffensively presentable content tag. The office screen mentality is just a good way to get the right idea across.

              Also, “better safe than sorry” is a good mentality. It’s better to over tag than under.