Honestly I'm learning more from hexbear and lemmygrad than lemmy.world, amongst others. I had a vague idea about the geopolitics and history of certain areas but the posts and discussions on there really shed a lot of light on that. And a lot is freely available information if you want to search for it. On the other instance they'll rather spit venom at each other than exchange information.

Ok, not everyone is bad on lemmy.world, but I've come across the most hateful, asinine users there.

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nice to hear friend. You're welcome on our evil tankie lair anytime stalin heart hands .

And, yeah, although there is your occasional resonable folks like yourself .world especialy and lemmy.ml to a somewhat lesser extent are very full of "scratched liberals" as the saying goes.