lemmy.world had difficulty handling new account registration when I tried moving from Reddit in June 2023, so I tried to find/join other instances. People said “it doesn’t matter which instance you join.”

Oh it definitely mattered.

  • Skua@kbin.earth
    23·
    10 days ago

    lemmygrad.ml is just another lemmy instance, but smaller and more specifically tankie than lemmy.ml

    hexbear.net is a bit of a funny one. It was its own thing that was created when /r/chapotraphouse on reddit got banned, so it developed quite a separate culture. It is now federated with some Fediverse instances, but when it first federated there was a pretty severe culture clash that led to a lot of defederation (like, even besides the political disagreements). It is theoretically left-unity instead of Marxist-Leninist but I don’t see a lot of evidence for that in practice

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        16·
        10 days ago

        It is, I just wanted to make the distinction between “tankie in practice but non-tankie leftism is technically acceptable” vs grad’s “so tankie that they literally put a tank on the instance icon”