ngl I may prefer lemm.ee, just saying
unpopular hexbear because seeing both sides of the propaganda broadens my critical thinking more than echo chambers, yes-men, and logical fallacies being thrown my way instead of supporting data
Every instance is good because every instance can interact with many other instances with comments, posts etc. So you arent really locked into one instance. its the magic of federation.
I’d be very careful with those words given that lemmy.world is rather trigger happy with defederations.
It is almost impossible to completely censor away content and anyone can bridge blocks by creating a new intermediary instance where they can view content of mutually blocked instances but it’s not like you see all the fediverse content on any instance.
Matter of fact you just need to look at the blocklists of most instances to get a pretty good guess at the other, less legal, Fediverse out there running almost in parallel to the popular one. But since almost every instance has those blocked you don’t see any of that shit in your feeds. Highly censorship resistant, but ultimately an individual is still at the mercy of their instance admins.
Is it possible to switch instances? I wanna explore and I just randomly picked one when I started
There is an external tool to export, import your subscribed communities. I don’t think there’s any current way your posts and comments can move with you, though.
You’ve just got to make a new account on a different instance. Several of the apps make it easy to switch between multiple accounts on different instances.
Lemmy.world for me.
It’s generic, has a good list of communities, and the mods are legends with updates and transparency.
Hexbear The best community on the internet
hexbear and lemmygrad are fantastic. makes me feel very welcome and safe as a queer person (i am bisexual) that the admins will always crack down on queerphobia in any form. very cool for our trans comrades as well! lemmy.ml is a close third place, many cool ppl on there especially comrade dessalines.
