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?
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So, the instance you choose largely depends on two factors:
your political stance.
do you like porn?
.world has been treating me alright. After blocking hexbear and .world, I'm sitting pretty alright here in .world. I'd prefer piefed.world to lemmy.world, but the former didn't exist when I made my account. I used to think of myself as a progressive liberal, but in current year the anarchists are making some pretty good points. Also, most of the porn communities I like I can subscribe to on this instance.
Why did you block . world if they've been treating you all right?
I'm sincerely curious for a few reasons
first of all .world is the only instance that would let me in after I tried multiple times joining numerous other instances that would just buffer forever when I was trying to register and they never sent me confirmation emails, .world was the only one that would let me in.
But now when I make posts and comments in .world communities, moderators have been removing my posts & comments, they say because I belong to.world ๐คฏ
Please make this make sense.
And look, here we are in a .world community. Let's see how long the moderators let this comment of mine remain ๐
Okay now that we solved that mystery, can anybody figure out why some . world moderators are removing my posts & comments and their reason is that I belong to .world?? How does that make sense? My only guess is that I feel like I am being discriminated against because maybe they don't like me for one reason or another, and they're making up specious nonsensical reasons for deleting my things.
How are you seeing my comments, though? I'm on .ml
Blocking instances blocks their communities, not their users. Further, Lemmy.world is already defederated from Hexbear, blocking it does nothing in that case.