I haven’t checked Lemmy for a long time but I wanna get off Reddit again, yet I still need to know how many users are on here. Which lemmy instances are suitable to me, the most popular, and which ones to avoid? For context, im queer, anarchist with DemSoc leaning, and environmentalist. Is there a comprehensive list of all the instances and their main functions? Is the instance I’m on still workable? Any feedback would help, thx. <3

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        We didn’t want to be lending any form of support to developers who deny genocide and promote transphobia.

        So we found a more ethical solution and than it turns out the developers are fucking amazing and it’s progressing so fast that it’s leaving Lemmy in the dust. Many people are now moving because it’s offering features and improvements that the Lemmy devs refused to.

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        the hard-line Democratic socialists all started migrating because communists upset them. I’m an anarchist and don’t mind it so I’m still here

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          Nah, you’re a tankie.

          You can easily find Anarchists on PieFed either on Quokk.au or Anarchist.Nexus though for anyone who wants to join us.

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            name calling is pretty rude, believe it or not it’s possible to be an anarchist and not use one of your instances. for me I find plenty of other anarchists in my day to day organizing, separate from the internet

            Some rightwing/centrists like to use it to insult any leftist. You can just ignore those ones.

            oh, noted

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            Why is that supposed to be an insult, I know nothing of tankie But was called one a couple days ago

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              Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia. That became the default term for anyone who supports brutal authoritarian states that suppress the people to assert their control. In modern day context a tankie would be someone who blames Ukraine for being invaded and denies the genocide of the Uyghurs.

              Some rightwing/centrists like to use it to insult any leftist. You can just ignore those ones.

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          That’s partially true, but not all true at all. Piefed development is way faster currently than Lemmy.

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          Were they hard-line demsocs, or were they really just “progressive” liberals?

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          Personally, communists don’t bother me. Transphobic developers, however, don’t make me want to use their software.