I have been on Lemmy for a while now but never posted anything as a new post so please forgive me if I am doing anything wrong.
I see that I am part of lemmy.world and that this instance is frowned upon.
Is there a better instance I can join? I am not very clued up on Lemmy and as far as I can see it is made up of lots of different sites which are linked together.
I just want to be part of a healthy group and I am just getting into astronomy so are there any good groups for that please?
If it helps I am based in the UK.
Have a great weekend all.
Edit: sorry for the late response another 6 day week at work. Thank you all so much for the very useful advice!
If you want to stay on lemmy.world, you can. As you can see in the comments, everyones username is @[email protected], you can follow communities from any lemmy instance and people from any instance can comment.
As for picking an instance, i’d avoid beehaw.org, hexbear.net, lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml.
Lemmy.world is frowned upon because its too big, so it has some performance issues and moderation issues.
Queer people suggesting not to join instances fighting for their rights, with 0 given reason is kind of wild not gonna lie
Many of us here are queer as well and I don’t think I’ll ever understand right-wing LGBT
This was a while ago, but I want to clarify,
I reccommended avoiding beehaw because its typically not what people are looking for out of lemmy. Don’t get me wrong, they have a great community and its very well moderated, but its likely not what OP wanted.
I didn’t reccommend hex, grad and .ml because of the tankies and because they are controversial and get defederated a lot. I have immense respect for hexbears defense of lgbt rights, but they probably aren’t the best for your average lemmy worlder.
Thank you for clarifying but I think you go over the main topic a bit quickly. What does it mean “because of the tankies”? Who are the tankies and what have they done that is to be avoided by going to another instance?
Well, the people who are fans of authoritiarian regimes(like the soviet union), and are pro china/russia. Those instances specifically house those people, which leads to them getting defederated from major instances.
I’m not right wing, Im just not a fan of tankies.