idk where to find a crashcourse but here are my opinions(!) on top of my head after nearly 3 years on different instances:
hexbear and lemmygrad are to be avoided by all costs. weird tankies. they are blocked by most instances either way.
.ml(stands for marxist leninist) is the instance of the lemmy devs(i think?) and is still populated by a lot of non-lunatics. But i blocked the whole instance either way.
idk what the deal is with quokk.au(?) users but i noticed over the years that they tend to post weird shit/takes.
kbin was a fediverse alternative to lemmy. kinda fell apart a few years backs. a few instances are still around. they are alright.
mbin is the successor/a fork of kbin. if you want to try a different ux to lemmy its worth a look.
beehaw was already a pretty tightly knit community before the reddit api debacle a few years back. they have self proclaimed higher posting standards.
db0 is an anarchist instance. good for piracy topics. otherwise i dont care or have an opinion on them. tend to be a bit more ai tolerant i believe.
lemmy.world was/is the biggest instance. they get/got a lot flack for some reasons and others. most of the drama was imho pretty overblown.
feddit.org is an european instance. most of its users are german.
piefed is yet another fediverse alternative. i like it.
otherwise there is stuff like lemdroid with a focus on android or instances with a focus on anime. but tbh just start using lemmy and make your own experiences and feel free to block all the weird shit you dont want to see.
Or just stick with an instance that doesn’t block others and judge for yourself. I thought Hexbears were descent people experiencing crisis as we all flooded in.
So when I left Reddit I wanted a similar experience, you know just the basic part, getting news from different viewpoints, cat videos, jokes, commentary TIL, ask Reddit, everything. I looked up online alternatives to Reddit and wherever I was had Lemmy as the top one. So I went there and when I was asked, I of course had no clue how to answer, so I picked .world because why would I want LESS than the whole world. I mean I didn’t see an option for .universe. Later, I was criticized for picking a shitty one by some random guy. So I went in the pullout on the side and couldn’t see any way to even change it.
I almost never post because when I was on Reddit and tried to post it was almost always taken down for some reason. Once I tried to post on Lemmy. I put it in asklemmy. It was a question about Linux and I was getting some really great feedback. I was delighted and sure enough my post was deleted and I didn’t even understand the reason. I think it said something about me not belonging to the instance. So I’m thinking why did it let me post in the first place and why did it let them answer and if it’s technically possible to do it in the first place, why disallow it? For, I guess some broken guideline? Just let it slide or maybe move it the the right place and tell me where it went.
I’m sure some of you will criticize me for not learning how it all works but man I just want to surf around and learn and be entertained and informed. I’m not looking to figure out a whole ecosystem. Some people want to take the whole car apart and others just want to get where they’re going.
The thing that made federation make sense to me was comparing it to email. Email is a shared protocol and anyone who has an email address can send one to any other email address. There are lots of providers, like Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, etc, that all offer access to an email address.
I picked .world because why would I want LESS than the whole world. I mean I didn’t see an option for .universe. Later, I was criticized for picking a shitty one by some random guy.
You might make a Google account because gmail is the first email service you heard about, and realize that you disagree with the company or want different features, so you go make an email on Proton instead. From either platform, you can still receive email from Yahoo users and send it to them. However, you aren’t necessarily able to just ‘transfer’ your email account from one provider to another.
sure enough my post was deleted and I didn’t even understand the reason. I think it said something about me not belonging to the instance. So I’m thinking why did it let me post in the first place and why did it let them answer and if it’s technically possible to do it in the first place, why disallow it?
Sometimes, other providers might have rules about who is and is not allowed to send email to their platform. This is usually to protect against spam.
Where those actions are automatic upon receipt with email, that isn’t always the case on Lemmy. Reddit had similar rules in many communities, where people with new accounts or low karma weren’t allowed to post.
idk where to find a crashcourse but here are my opinions(!) on top of my head after nearly 3 years on different instances:
otherwise there is stuff like lemdroid with a focus on android or instances with a focus on anime. but tbh just start using lemmy and make your own experiences and feel free to block all the weird shit you dont want to see.
blahaj.zone is the home to the LGBT community and they are prolific shitposters.
Or just stick with an instance that doesn’t block others and judge for yourself. I thought Hexbears were descent people experiencing crisis as we all flooded in.
this is how I feel about the hilariouschaos instance
Iirc, HC is pretty explicitly a troll instance
Don’t forget fedinsfw.app
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TL;DR I don’t know how any of this shit works.
So when I left Reddit I wanted a similar experience, you know just the basic part, getting news from different viewpoints, cat videos, jokes, commentary TIL, ask Reddit, everything. I looked up online alternatives to Reddit and wherever I was had Lemmy as the top one. So I went there and when I was asked, I of course had no clue how to answer, so I picked .world because why would I want LESS than the whole world. I mean I didn’t see an option for .universe. Later, I was criticized for picking a shitty one by some random guy. So I went in the pullout on the side and couldn’t see any way to even change it.
I almost never post because when I was on Reddit and tried to post it was almost always taken down for some reason. Once I tried to post on Lemmy. I put it in asklemmy. It was a question about Linux and I was getting some really great feedback. I was delighted and sure enough my post was deleted and I didn’t even understand the reason. I think it said something about me not belonging to the instance. So I’m thinking why did it let me post in the first place and why did it let them answer and if it’s technically possible to do it in the first place, why disallow it? For, I guess some broken guideline? Just let it slide or maybe move it the the right place and tell me where it went.
I’m sure some of you will criticize me for not learning how it all works but man I just want to surf around and learn and be entertained and informed. I’m not looking to figure out a whole ecosystem. Some people want to take the whole car apart and others just want to get where they’re going.
The thing that made federation make sense to me was comparing it to email. Email is a shared protocol and anyone who has an email address can send one to any other email address. There are lots of providers, like Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, etc, that all offer access to an email address.
You might make a Google account because gmail is the first email service you heard about, and realize that you disagree with the company or want different features, so you go make an email on Proton instead. From either platform, you can still receive email from Yahoo users and send it to them. However, you aren’t necessarily able to just ‘transfer’ your email account from one provider to another.
Sometimes, other providers might have rules about who is and is not allowed to send email to their platform. This is usually to protect against spam.
Where those actions are automatic upon receipt with email, that isn’t always the case on Lemmy. Reddit had similar rules in many communities, where people with new accounts or low karma weren’t allowed to post.
Edit: fixed a typo