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I’m relatively new to Lemmy: what instance(s) in your (collective) opinion strike that sweet spot between being a) very free speech oriented and minimally censored, but also b) not taken over by alt-right CHUDs, trashed up like 4chan, or hosting CP, gore, and all that nastiness that comes with zero moderation?
What I’m looking for, is just enough moderation to keep out the 4chan shit, but anything below that threshold of actually hurting people, pretty much goes uncensored.
I just want to use the c-word, b-word, and r-word, basically. Like, there are a lot of stories posted involving JD Vance, so…
Fedecan is solid. basically the current Canadian instances work together as a somewhat joint network now.
I like mine, the admin is TheDude and I like their Dude inspired attitude. Piracy allowed here too not just dbzer0, which is why my new emulation community is there.
It's a toss up, but dbzer0 is more overt which is appealing. I'd go with them if I wasn't in Canada
Shitjustworks is very laid back in a Canadian way, and the domain name scares away prudes/puritans which is something I value like yourself.
This one
yeah you said it better haha
my instance (lemmy.dbzer0.com, commonly referred to as db0) is an anarchist leftist comm.
it's also where ~~r/privacy~~ r/piracy migrated to, you can find them (megathread and all) at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
lemmy.ml, hexbear.net, and lemmygrad.ml are often called the "tankie triad" because they're full of tankies, people will often mistake you for a tankie just by the virtue of being on that instance.
as for other instances,
.world is the biggest and quite liberal/centrist/moderate with pretty heavy handed moderation.
lemmy.blahaj.zone is by trans people for trans people, I believe non-trans allies are allowed on it but if you're not LGBT it's probably not the best place for you.
pawb.social is furries
lemm.ee, lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works I don't know the politics of but I would assume leftist and I haven't heard anything bad said about any of them, will leave anything past that to others.
this might be worth a post of its own if you're looking for more info than that tbh
but yeah really you're not gonna find right wing CHUDs or cp or gore or anything here there's generally good enough content moderation to prevent that and really the only instance with crazy censorship is the one you picked lol
e: fuckin auto cucumber
Neat, that was really helpful.
Yes, I’d simply picked my instance at random.
yeah I started on .world because it was the biggest (.ml is 2nd I believe) but eventually grew tired of the neoliberalism especially surrounding Luigi, always really appreciated the vibes of the db0 punks so decided to join them.
OH I almost forgot, the final nail in the coffin was when I learned that while .world is federated with db0 they have !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com blocked. so as a .world user I was unable to access it at all.
I decided they have no right to make that decision on my behalf and made this db0 account that same day
lol piracy vs privacy :D Nice spelling miatake. But it still fits and checks out.
I'd assume sh.itjust.works is just primarily IT related communities
lol missed the autocorrect backstab
good shout ty!