Not seen this link https://lemmyverse.net/communities
That lists every Lemmy instance
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2026
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I think it would be neat if somebody made a community-run list of stable Lemmy/Piefed communities and categorised them by their rules, where the servers are, etc.
As for now, I think it is best to recommend a few instances that you know are reliable. Push them towards more local instances. If they live in Canada, lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, lemmy.blahaj.zone, and piefed.blahaj.zone are good options, I know feddit.org (Lemmy) and feddit.online (Piefed) are both hosted in Germany. sopuli.xyz is hosted in Finland, piefed.nz in Kiwi land, etc.
Or perhaps instances that relate to their interests, like programming.dev or retrofed.com (both are pretty self-explanatory)
Wtf is a tankie?
People who love authoritarianism and intentionally skip over their atrocities, the term "tankie" refers to how the military (tanks) were used to crush the rebellions of many authoritarian regimes, notably, the Hungarian uprising in 1956 being crushed by the Warsaw Pact and the Tianamen square massacre in 1989 by the PRC.
It's usually used to refer to supporters of the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, etc. who deny all the bad, inhuman things about those states.
Thank you!
Roughly speaking, authoritarian/big-state communist. Very common on a certain subset of Lemmy instances.
So, like a far left beyond DSA or something?
More people who kiss the toes of dictators. Those who ignore the atrocities of Stalin and similarly despicable figures, "tankie" as in the tanks used to silence civilian protests
Anarchists are far left, but they would be very insulted if you called them tankies (their whole thing is anti-authoritarianism!)
Thank you!
in lemmy its usually an alt-left authotarian point of view, aka "communism" but they really represent the extreme opposite of the spectrum as well.
How about pointing them at Piefed instead?
You could point them to the instance chooser. It's on every piefed instance but is decentralized so may be different on different instances, here's piefed.social: https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser
Piefed has all the same content but a different feature set and worse app support, but app support is growing.
ALSO it would be SO cool to see a map where instances are mapped by federation and bigger if they had a lot of users, like thefedi verse logo but actual instances
There used to be one like that a few years back! From memory I think it was on the German feddit that doesn't exist anymore.
You can join from voyager app, and the three instances aren't listed by default, or so it seems at least
Sad .ml noises
I've had fine interactions with one of the devs, anyway. Not so much individual users.
I unsubscribed from all their communities I'd formerly signed up to because of too many toxic interactions.
i think its usually one of the lemmygrad devs that crashes out quite often that you avoid.
It's various users, and I forgot to mention HexBear as well. I'm all for Palestine, but one time at my community I posted an excerpt about a moderate-minded Jewish guy in Israel, and they lost their excrement. Dogpiled the post and started screaming the most outrageous stuff, way out of proportion to the actual example.
And it was just a comic book.
I joined years before the first reddit exodus and back then the .ml instance was one of like three available instances.
I keep reading about instances blocking .ml and everybody on .ml being a tanky but I just wanna browse memes 🤷♂️
Yeah it seems like something has definitely changed. I was just digging through 3yr old threads on .ml and hexbear this morning and there's a way different tone from now. Like, same politics but they're not at war. Can I get your take on what happened?
Yeah, it’d be nice to get a list of communities that don’t have people whining about capitalism in every comment pool.
Maybe https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/safelisted conversely there is https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/censured