here's a good list of communities I came across today, subbed to a bunch myself
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/17176543
as everyone else has said most instances are chill but avoid the tankie triad
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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Replying to this so I know where to go on this account
Nice! Welcome and congratulations on making the move!
Outside of avoiding the three tankie instances (.ml, lemmygrad, Hexbear), you don't need to worry too much about which instances a community is on. Just search for the most active ones (there's a community search at the top of the page) and hop in!
The tankies are concentrated on three main instances so basically you can either block those completely or just don’t participate in any communities on them. Some do visit the non-politics coms there but I think they always end up interpreting things in a political lens so I avoid them all.
The instances are Lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and Hexbear.net.
I tried searching up the lemmygrad instance on list to block but it doesn’t show up. In fact not all instances show up to block
Actually a lot of the more debate-bro tankies tend to make alts elsewhere to argue. By blocking the big three (if they're federate), you're usually just avoiding the ones who are not very argumentative and of course all the campist-flavored topics which might be annoying.
I find it easier to block the communities. I’d rather not post content on an instance where I’ll be banned for calling China capitalist lol
Yea, but unfortunately the admins and mods of the Tankie Triad are the biggest Tankies around and enforce that through (ironic, because they always complain about censorship) mod action
So the best course of action, if you're not on an instance that defed's from them, is to not reward their comms with activity. A total boycott, no posts, no comments, no upvotes. With a little luck, all the non-tankie users will gradually shift over
lmao
Ran into several fresh accounts this week alone. TankieTanuki and something with "Stalin" in the name were the more obvious ones (I say like a random hours old account complaining about NATO in two separate threads and nothing else isn't obvious).
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Just browse the All feed and subscribe to the stuff you like. At this point many instances block .ml and hexbear, so you'll be fine.
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I think @Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com has a list of ML comm replacements somewhere.
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