Come one come all to the Lemmy-verse! It’s nice and cozy here, we do have some “bad parts of town” but you can do an instance block and not deal with them lol

For your memes we have [email protected] if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like [email protected] and [email protected] and for a meme science combo theres always the fantastic [email protected]

You can also drop a shit(post) off at [email protected] or hang out at [email protected] (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)

There’s much more around as well!

Obligatory, fuck Spez

  • @[email protected]
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    43 hours ago

    You can tell they’re communists cuz they live rent free in the heads of every .world user.

    • xapr [he/him]
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      02 hours ago

      Most definitely. I’m getting pretty sick and tired of the constant complaining about those Lemmy instances.

    • @Saltycracker
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      -13 hours ago

      Ironically the founder and programmer is a communist

  • @[email protected]
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    54 hours ago

    Man you’re getting worse than the hexbear edgelords who just shit on the liberals all day, except at least they’re yelling at people in power and not some extremely marginal leftists who would be shot before they could ever take a seat in politics.

    A good rule of politics is if someone or an ideology that you don’t like and they have no power or connection to power just ignore them, especially if there on your side for 90% of actual relevant issues. Not theoretical issues that may pop up after the revolution that may never come.

    • @cm0002OP
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      93 hours ago

      A good rule of politics is if someone or an ideology that you don’t like and they have no power or connection to power just ignore them, especially if there on your side for 90% of actual relevant issues. Not theoretical issues that may pop up after the revolution that may never come.

      Sounds good, except I believe them to be actively harmful to the reputation of the Lemmy-verse, so it’s important to make a clear stand, if total defederation isn’t happening.

      I’d rather not Lemmy end up as another Voat. I’ve already seen tons of stories from the original rexit of “I tried Lemmy, but .ml/hex/grad seemed cringy/hostile so I left”

      • @[email protected]
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        -13 hours ago

        the reputation of the Lemmy-verse

        As long as the main devs of Lemmy are Dessalines and other communists, then the reputation of the Lemmy-verse being tied to a bunch of highly communist instances is just an objectively correct fact. Liberals are free to fork their own version of the software and call it something else.

        • @cm0002OP
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          Tankies, they’re tankies, there’s nothing wrong with the theory of communism. What makes a Tankie, is the support of Authoritarian regimes and turning a blind eye to genocides and many other human rights violations when committed by said regimes

          And also, there’s nothing Tankie about Lemmy itself. It’s just computer code that is a Reddit-like link aggregator. It falls under separating the art from the artist. And because it’s open source, there’s no concern of financially supporting it either from its use (unless you make an explicit choice to donate)

          • @[email protected]
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            -32 hours ago

            I just think there’s a contradiction in a) continuing to use a platform that is developed primarily by Communists and b) thinking that the platform being associated with Communists “actively harmful to the reputation of the Lemmyverse”. The fact is that the Lemmyverse is associated with Communists - or “tankies” as you insist on calling them - and so if that’s its reputation then the reputation is accurate.

  • @[email protected]
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    Also, it defaults to “Active” view, which is the least updated. You can set your posts to “Hot” and then switch between “Top 6 Hours” and “Top 12 Hours” to get the most of your experience here. It will seem dead with the default.

    • @[email protected]
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      176 hours ago

      I usually sort by new comments. Sometimes you’ll see 1 year old post still active in the comments. It’s neat

    • @danc4498
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      66 hours ago

      I still wish there was a better sort algorithm. Nothing compares to Reddit’s front page algorithm. I usually cycle between hot and top 12 hours.

  • oleorun
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    297 hours ago

    There’s even some instances with old reddit-like styling/formatting, if you’re into that sort of thing.

    I’ll pimp my example: https://old.lemmy.fan/

  • @tpihkal
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    127 hours ago

    I don’t know why I would block Lemmy.ml when it’s more entertaining to get banned from their communities one by one!

    • [email protected]
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      106 hours ago

      One by one? Dessalines blanket bans you from everything if you break one of their unwritten rules. Relatedly, just write out your rules. Stop trying to be sneaky-deeky. It’s ridiculous, having ultra secret rules like some sort of boy’s club. Be up front about it. It surely doesn’t take long to write “avoid questioning China or Russia” in the sidebar

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        deleted by creator

    • @cm0002OP
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      Yea, getting site-banned is also fun, I can make posts like these and none of the .ml tankies can see it outside their alts LMAOOO

    • @[email protected]
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      105 hours ago

      I’d recommend visiting it or joining an instance that federates with it at least. The liberals like to make it out to be a communist propaganda machine but most of the content is memes, oss, and general left wing / anti-US stuff. They will ban you on some communities if you bring up tianemen square or uyghurs though, so that sucks, but otherwise most of the content / users on there are decent.

      • @[email protected]
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        115 hours ago

        Yeah, I haven’t had issues with them generally speaking myself, if you’re a leftist you’ll find comrades. But also, it’s important to remember that every instance is essentially its own little fiefdom, so you’ll have to follow whatever arbitrary rules they have.

        I caught a ban on .world for mentioning Jury Nullification. That was a fun time, from the people who complain about freeze peach constantly.

        • @MutilationWave
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          32 hours ago

          Luckily they backed off their stance on those conversations.

          • @mkwt
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            32 hours ago

            I wonder if some of that was admins in NL somewhat inexperienced with commonwealth-style legal systems.

    • The Quuuuuill
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      246 hours ago

      their admins (the maintainers of the lemmy codebase) are tankies (authoritarian communists who believe the USSR was justified in quashing Hungarian protests against human rights abuses with violence). they take any criticism of the people’s republic of china’s government as sinophobia and have some weird opinions about the fascist government of the russian federation (effectively their explanation is that moscow achieved communist utopia in 1918 and therefor cannot backslde into a worse form of government despite overwhelming evidence that the potato shaped dickhead who sits atop the throne of skulls in moscow is maybe possibly perhaps a war criminal)

    • @cm0002OP
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      46 hours ago

      Also, you can go-to [email protected] and check out the pinned posts, Nutomic lead dev, Tankie, and .ml head admin is basically a transphobe on top (receipts in the second pinned post)

      They’ll also remove posts and ban you under their favorite catch-all “Rule 1 Bigotry” for anything critical of China/Russia

      If you talk Ill of them, even on other instances comms they’ll site-ban you. So basically like how Reddit mods of ol used to ban you for participation in unrelated subs.

    • Optional
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      -87 hours ago

      They helped elect trump

      • Chloé 🥕
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        12 hours ago

        yes of course, trump won because of a few hundred people on a website no one’s heard of and not, yknow, the sheer racism of the average white person (the only demographic that voted in majority for trump, btw)

        be serious

      • Hegar
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        You’re blaming people who shoot their mouths off online for a fascist coup orchestrated by russian and US oligarchs?

        • Optional
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          Ummmm . . . Yyyyyes.

          Yeah, they were bigly into making sure trump won.

  • @fuzzy_ad
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    77 hours ago

    And remember, the biggest quality of life aspect to sites like these are the moderators. Of which this site has the same quality as the other!

  • @[email protected]
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    -93 hours ago

    The reason progressive liberals believe that people to the left of them are actually the right wing is because they imagine they are as far left as you can be, and by left they mean right (correct).

    • @Donkter
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      32 hours ago

      No I think it’s the insufferable purity comparisons and the collection of self-righteous dogma like Pokemon cards in lieu of any coherent plan or consistent ideology.

    • @MutilationWave
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      22 hours ago

      This makes no sense at all to me. Are you talking about horseshoe theory?

  • @sumguyonline
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    -14 hours ago

    I found Lemmy when I switched from android to calyxos and a Lemmy world app had just had a recent update on f-droid basic… Reddit lost interest for me prior to the GameStop saga that recently ended it’s “positive in the eyes of the public” stage and superstonk has no meaning when the CEO is openly betraying his investors. Reddit is mostly involuntarily celibate cat ladies(the smelly kind), and frankly it shows in the content.

  • @ThatGuy46475
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    04 hours ago

    Is there an asklemmy that isn’t .ml?