uh I just picked lemmy.ml pretty randomly when I moved from Reddit, though I specifically picked it over lemmygrad because I'd heard lemmygrad was full of tankies. personally, I'm a left libertarian. I'm not auth at all.

I think you might be overestimating how much a user's home lemmy indicates their ideology.

State socialists, if you like. It's an oxymoron, but some still seem to choose it.

they’re authoritarian communists essentially

With an utterly broken sense of what is or isn't communism or socialism. So many of them still going to bat for Russia, which has objectively not been socialist since the wall fell, and arguably long before that.

There's at least one server that uses dummy accounts for vote federation to keep the voters anonymous.

Zip as well. We're just...exists.

Its great. I definitely got lucky when i randomly picked it back during the migration.

Shhhh it just works

I'm still new but enjoying dbzer0. I heard of it because someone said that lemmy.world blocks its pirate community, so of course I had to sign up there immediately.

I started on .world when I first learned about Lemmy, but recently found dbzer0 and realized I finally found my people.

Love it too, but I don't understand why they didn't go with shit.just.works, unless of course just.works was already taken (wouldn't be surprised). Or maybe it's actually supposed to be "sh, it just works"?

🍁

Not sure if fishing for compliments on your great ass. 🤔

Some of us are here because of your ass

tru. most of the ones mentioned here ive never seen anything negative about (tho havent checked all their mod logs). yeah maybe to say 'best' is less accurate than 'among the handful that are the best' (or mouthful if one has no hands)

Db0 is pretty fucking dope ngl. Their piracy megathread alone brings them over the top. The lack of censorship is just icing on the cake.

There are quite a few old farts on SJW as well.

Source: am one

What does the AI image have to do with the rest of the comment (or the spoiler warning)? And was it intended to seem to depict a young girl with semen on her legs?

I hope there is some point I am missing, because that just gives me an ick.

i always appreciate your comments

hey, that's my girlfriend Sai Lormoon! where did you get her photo?!

I've found Blahaj to be a great instance, though if you don't like queer shit then you best stay away.

I tried Shitjustworks, Beehaw and Blahaj out for a few weeks and have found myself gravitating toward Blahaj.

I don't need people seeing my sick habits (cat memes)

This post was made on that instance. Federation is why you see it and can comment on it. You have access to see all of their posts and comments and can interact unless your instance .world in this case gets defederated from their instance. You do not need any new logins to participate with their instance. It will show up in your feed on w.e app you prefer to use. (Same goes for lemm.ee)

Defederation is essentially a block made of an entire instance. Sometimes it is done to prevent future issues, and sometimes it is done because idiological differences. An example of the first is threads being built into the fedeverse. It has so many users that it would effectively nudge out all smaller instances and eventually start putting ads back in and w.e they want to make money and do whatever they choose to manipulate the users. So many instances have pre-set their instances to not allow federation with threads when it eventually connects. The second example was ideology, which the user mentioned .hexbear. They are a group of people who are often misrepresented but have no problems with commenting death to America over and over again. Some of them are trolls, some are not, but in the end many instances defederated from them because they didn't want to deal with all the issues and people bitching all the time. World is the largest instance by a good amount last I checked. (Probably to large ratio wise). You shouldn't have issues there. When someone posts a comment on dbzero, it'll show in your stuff.

Some other things instances vary on is, upvotes, downvotes, no votes, and perpetual scrolling. (Though many apps have that choice as well). Some people worry about mental impacts of perpetual scrolling so they limit it. Some instances don't show the votes, and some only show the upvotes as they believe it helps promote discussion as opposed to just downvoting something you don't like and moving on. This also makes situations where someone may not realize 184 people downvotes and 1 person upvoted and since they are new to a topic, may not be able to tell it may not be based on truth or agree with public opinion or what not.

The one thing people SHOULD realize. No matter what your instance shows you, upvotes, downvotes and by who ARE recorded and sent by Lemmy through federation as part of how it works. So when you upvotes a comment, there are people out there that know YOUR user name in specific upvotes that comment. They can see a list of every vote. This also goes for downvotes. Most every instance has turned this view off for users so people don't get upset at someone and follows them around nagging them and what not. That said. The data still exists and is transferred through federation otherwise it cannot keep track of up/down votes, because otherwise it would just go up or down every time you hit the button it has to say "Freddy.world" has already voted.

So now if you don't understand how scary that is yet. Just note that bad actors can spin up an instance, federate and know the username who up/downvoted say a post about Trump being a dictator. If you are not using a VPN at all times, your IP address is going to get caught up being tied to your account. So they have that account connected to your phone (and government will know the home address)

Have fun out there, but it's always nice to understand how things work. (Upvoted a nude, I'm sure someone can create a database and log all of it fairly easily.).

You can communicate with either using your existing account as we are doing now.
If you prefer an instance's rules or vibes you can choose to make one your home by making an account there, but otherwise we're all federated and you can engage from whichever.

I have lemm.ee as my backup for when aussie.zone is down

For use like that you do need another login, just go to https://lemm.ee/ and make a login

There are browser scripts to copy your subscriptions from one instance login to another

You only need one login to post on any instance, but I would recommend having multiple logins just in case the instance you picked (lemmy.world) shuts down for any reason. Your comment/post history is linked to your instance of choice.

A commonly mentioned comparison for how instances work is email. Let's say that you have a Gmail account, for example. You can email people with a Yahoo email address, but you can only access your inbox by going to Gmail. Different instances basically function like how different email providers do. They have their own design and rules to follow, but anyone can communicate anyone.

No you don't need another login. It's just that communities on that instance are more chill. You can find the same communities across different instances but the ones on certain instances will ban you for almost nothing.

Edit: forgot to mention you can only create a community of your own on the instance where your account is located.

In Thunder, you can disable display names. All I see is "allo".