The Fediverse is huge and overwhelming to a newcomer, with many different types and each with servers to pick from. Which ones would you suggest checking out or avoiding?
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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Lemmy.ml ofc. "Tankie" instance made by the actual lemmy devs.
.ml is my preferred instance too because you get the latest updates first, you get access to all the same mainstream PieFed and Lemmy communities, and you get to choose whether to interact with communist communities like Lemmygrad or Hexbear.
I wouldn't recommend it to most people though cause most people can't handle communists. Most would prefer conservatives, even.
And the downside is that certain people will block you or judge you for your instance, even if you were here years before the other instances came to be.
I joined lemmy.ml after the reddit APIcalypse because it was the largest one at the time, about 3 years ago. The "tankie fascist" thing has been very interesting, I see it as a very effective tool for groupthink people to out themselves on. I'm a soft-leaning socialist if anything, not very politically involved, but the angry emotional groupthink people actually gives zero fucks about what I think. They just see .ml, decide in their own heads what I think and what "team" I'm on, and call me a tankie fascist! It's hilarious actually, I don't even have to say anything and those type of thinkers just present themselves for me to block. And thank god for how easy it is to curate Lemmy with blocks!
Over time it has become a very cool place with many views and interesting people from different paths of life discussing everything quite civilly.
I especially like the meta posts about inter-instance squabbling. They're goldmines for my block list.
I mean, I'm an 'anarkiddie' according to actual tankies, but I don't broadly discriminate against .ml users, most of them are great!
... but, a lot of .ml powermods do things like declare the Xi Poohbear meme to be inherently racist, even though it was literally created by Chinese netizens.
Or, god help you if you attempt to discuss the Holodomor.
Yeah I'm sure if MAGA types were still calling Obama "Tigger" to this day, you'd insist it wasn't racist?
That's not a valid reason to think it's not racist for Westerners to use it, especially when the OG meme was specifically about one picture where Xi and Obama were walking together and looked a little bit like Winnie and Tigger. For one, Chinese people are just as capable of saying racist stuff as anyone else, but also language and memes transform when transported to different cultures. Xi Jinping bears little resemblance to Winnie the Pooh; the fact that online anticommunists really want to die on the hill that they should be allowed to compare the president of China to a yellow bear reflects poorly on them.
Yeah, if you say the typical line among online anticommunists that the USSR committed a genocide via famine in Eastern Europe you'll get a similar reaction to the one you'd get if you went and said as such in a history department at any university. That is, outside of the Baltic states, Ukraine, and particularly reactionary parts of North America. From the way you directly wrote "Holodomor/Holocaust numbers" in this comment it appears that you subscribe to the double genocide theory and think that those 2 events are comparable.
sigh
I'm not going to have this discussion, again.
I'm tired.
Thank you for proving my point that some .ml users get very very touchy about these two topics.
These are the words of someone who knows they're wrong but are to stubborn to admit it, lol.
Yeah because you're demonstrably incorrect on both counts. If you don't wanna talk about it, don't bring it up.
... says the one week old account that only exists to pick fights and do nothing other than argue ideology.
Come on buddy, its possible to say something and reference an example of a controversial/touchy topic, as an example of being a controversial/touchy topic, without wanting to engage in that controversy.
Oops, hexbear just happened to link to this page. Whoopie. I guess "it was on there front page".
Surely they're in good faith.
My main account is @FunkyStuff@hexbear.net, it's not my fault the biggest Lemmy instance defederated us pre-emptively as a last resort.
Good luck with that!
Fellow tankie fascist here! Don't try too hard to appeal to the fediverse, you know we have a mission to spread Marx's word every waking hour to people that will probably have influence in the real world at Lemmy.world.
I don't even know what Marx said! lol
Lemmy.ml, iirc, stopped being promoted a couple years ago because it's kind of the experimental instance of Lemmy. The developers of this instance themselves shared the idea for new users is not to be here, and use other instances to free up a bit of the server resources, but older accounts like mine, well, we are still around.
No, it's because your admins are genocide deniers that want Ukraine to be taken over by Russia.
Most of Lemmy doesn't want to be associated with that. Hell, that's a large part of why PieFed was developed
Except that the people who started suggesting to avoid pushing .ml were the Lemmy devs, the instance admins, and that is what this user is referencing. Exactly for the reasons described.
This was back during the surge from Reddit in 2023.
"Most of Lemmy" was made up of communists before then.
I like when people don't act coy about this being direct motivation so thanks.
Great! I found the announcement at this thread, if you want to know the argued reasons for this policy.