I’ve been noticing a lot of back and forth between instances, changes of stances etc. I was wondering if there is any place that just collects what each instance represents from a philosophical perspective. This would be great in helping people choosing an instance before they join, or later if they want to switch to another instance.

  • Harvey656@lemmy.world
    45·
    20 days ago

    I feel as if such a ‘list’ being public would only create more strife between instances. Not EVERYONE from .ml is a tankie, some people didn’t know when they signed up and just never left as an example.

    It would also be massively biased to whomever maintains the list. Not sure I’d trust such a thing.

    • grandel@lemmy.ml
      11·
      19 days ago

      I created my account in 2020, waaay before the Reddit API thing. Back then there were only like three instances to pick from

        • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
          8·
          19 days ago

          nah. I have found .ml to be pretty opinionated but diverse since signing up. aside from some minor inter/intra instance strife, its been good.

          I think most people eventually get over themselves and recognize the social and technical usefulness of .ml - having a bleeding edge, well federated instance where you find the beehaws, worlds, hexbears and others is… interesting. the flavor of each instance really comes through and you can still curate your own feed as needed.

            • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              19 days ago

              i try to balance my personal distaste for general bans with the much desired trait that every instance can be an island in a larger ocean if it wishes. so, as long as i have the ability to choose home instances based on my favored criteria, its ok with me. making sure that new users fully understand they have choice and can get vastly different experiences based on instance can be a challenge, however.

              consolidation around large instances is more of a worry, but over the last 6 months or so I feel (100% subjective) that there has been much more activity on smaller, topic-centric instances. I try to respectfully engage with them as much as possible - sometimes even successfully.

              I am pretty happy with lemmy and the lemmy trendlines. its the only social watering hole I visit now.

    • ApollosArrow@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      20 days ago

      It would likely be manually curated by an individual asking the people that run the instances. It would hopefully not be interpreted.

      • Harvey656@lemmy.world
        13·
        20 days ago

        I’m Sorry but philosophical perspectives can only be known through interpretation. Ask any two people what a communist is and you WILL get two different answers, obviously there will be many similarities between the two answers but the nuance will be different.

        All that being said…

        If this is something you really want, I’m sure it won’t be too hard to get ahold of the instance admins to get the answers you desire. And if you make a place, or community or website or whatever to host that information, we’ll, I’m sure it won’t be too hard.

  • rbn@sopuli.xyz
    20·
    20 days ago

    I guess the instance doesn’t matter too much as you can interact with any content and people independent from your home instance. Personally, I’d recommend a medium-sized all-purpuse instance. Medium-sized because I think it’s important for the fediverse not to concentrate everything on one or twp major hosts and very small hobby projects are probably more likely to just disappear out of a sudden.

    • kuerbiskernoel@feddit.org
      4·
      19 days ago

      Expanding:

      mander.xyz - science

      sh.itjust.works - no ideology but fully powered by renewable energy

      feddit.[some country] - that country (German: feddit.org, not feddit.de)

      programming.dev - IT

      (Also not sure if I’d call lemmy.ml sane, there is a lot of Lenin/Stalin/Tito/Mao/etc relativism there)

      • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
        3·
        19 days ago

        It’s relatively sane when compared to its lemmygrad and hex ear counterparts. Although i do agree that they’re stills quite insane

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      20 days ago

      Gotta say, though, the Hexbears are havibg fun with it. Some communities seem sort of dour by comparison.

      FWIW, SDF probably skews a bit anarchist, but if there’s a founding principle behind the organization, it’s “a harem of cute girls, and they picked the PDP-11”

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
      2·
      19 days ago

      Lemmy.ml is insane.

      Try asking them directly if they’re pro-Russian.

      Davel@lemmy.ml and AntiOutSideAktion and others really hate me for it.

      I’m permanently instance banned from @midwest.social and lemmy.ml because of that. The only thing those Ruskis aren’t ready to lie about is being pro-Russian, because they know that even if they write that as a lie as a part of their lies, it could still be used as a reason to toss them out of a window.

  • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    19 days ago

    in reading through the comments I feel a sense of “lemmy pride” that instances have genuine, recognized flavors and that federation works as well as it does for the overwhelming majority of people. this really is the way, methinks. 👍

  • jimmy90@lemmy.world
    3·
    19 days ago

    i wonder if anything could be gleaned from automated scanning of community names and descriptions and modlogs

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    20 days ago

    How and who would you compile such a list and what does it bring? I guess it would provide us with more entertainment watching the ensueing squabbles. eg I’m an aethiest, green, anarchist, cis, old white guy. If i had a bug up my arse, the beauty is I can start my own instance.

    That said, a lot of people, including myself most times, have zero interest in my views.