I’ve heard people talking about e.g. not subscribing to lemmy.world communities (because they are the largest instance), and others like Lemmygrad seems to be defederated by quite many instances. But what about lemmy.ml? Should that instance and those communities also be avoided? The “issue” is that many large communities seem to be based on that instance. Like [email protected] and [email protected]
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I would recommend completely ignoring what Instance people/communities are hosted on
Ehh I’d suggest feeling it out for yourself to be honest. I’ve had some great interactions on .ml communities, as well as .world communities. But also some hair-pulling insanity. That’s where some of the most active conversations happen, but that also means you’re more likely to encounter some trolls and some awful petulant fools. When you do, just unsubscribe from the community or block the user and you’re all set.
Self-curation is one of my favorite things about Lemmy, and it’s why I like .ee as an instance, because it’s quite neutral and they let individual users choose what communities we want to see and don’t force decisions down our throats. The beauty of this place is that you can always switch instances or block communities and users you dislike, you just have to spend some time curating your experience.
You are correct, I think there are quite a few moderate instances out there.
The inner struggle to self curate comes down to summoning the effort between being on passive autopilot and the desire to not fall into an echo chamber by actively listening and participating.
Personally, I’m less scared about getting my feelings hurt and more the need to not be such a lazy fuck;)
Depends on how you feel about communists
As far as far left instances go, ml is actually pretty unspicy, despite the bee in their bonnet people got.
So like, if you can’t stand hanging out with em pinko commies, avoid it. If you’re fine with that, don’t.
The genuine commies are totally fine. It’s the authoritarian apologists that need to fuck right off.
if you can’t handle political content then just excluding worldnews from your feed should be enough
This. Blocking communities you find annoying is the better solution.
I prefer the whitelist option instead. I just read the “subscribed” feed and ignore the “all” feed
I mean that’s how I surf sometimes. But how do you find new content? I’ve found a lot of great stuff scrolling everything.
That is a valid question. Initially, I used the community search to find all the communities I might care about, and subscribed to all of them. Occasionally, I also tried the all feed, but didn’t find anything worth my time, so I stopped doing that. Nowadays, my list of communities is pretty stable.
Occasionally I check what’s going on in [email protected]
.ml is unavoidable for some niche tech communities unless you make your own with blackjack and hookers, but for example, Linux has [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]. Privacy has [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].
