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!

  • Karmmah@lemmy.world
    153·
    3 months ago

    Lemmy.world is not frowned upon. There are some people who are very vocal about not liking it but if you don’t have any problems you don’t need to change. There is also nothing stopping you from having accounts on diferent instances so try some of them out and stay where you like it.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    123·
    3 months ago

    People frown upon lemmy.world because it’s a politically American center-right instance on a leftist social media platform that bans leftist discourse via defederation.

    If your politics align w them and you don’t mind them deciding what you can and can’t see on your behalf, you’ll do fine there.

    I switched from lemmy.world because of that and switched to an instance that doesn’t make a habit of defederating from the most active instances (ie hexbear) and there’s also another center-right instance named lemm.ee that also doesn’t defederate.

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Np and I can see that you’ve gotten an introduction to the political culture war that’s being waged on lemmy (assuming you weren’t already aware). Lol

        One more piece of info that I wished someone had given me when I first started is that a huge majority of lemmings are cool; but there are significantly more center-right users than leftist users so you’ll see more of the vitriol you witnessed in this post coming from the center-right instances like lemmy.world and lem.ee, but the leftists are a scrappy bunch so they’ll respond in kind and mostly from hexbear; hence the defederations.

        • PixellatedDave@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          3 months ago

          Ah gotcha. I guess people will be people but I wish it wasn’t so easy to divide us so we could work to common good and change but I know that’s just a dream.

  • Contramuffin@lemmy.world
    103·
    3 months ago

    Lemmy.world, by political ideology, is most similar to old Reddit. Namely, you’re most likely going to find generally-left-of-center people. Several other instances (namely lemmy.ml) are known for being significantly more left-leaning, basically hard communist.

    As is tradition for left-leaning people, there’s a lot of infighting. .world people think that .ml people are tankies. .ml people think that .world people are corporate bootlickers. Both sides accuse the other of heavy-handed censorship.

    Basically, I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s just your standard leftism infighting.

    • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
      10·
      3 months ago

      I’ve rarely seen people of the left on lemmy.world. Not never, just rarely

      Not sure if you’re talking about vibes like US Democrats voters or something

  • prototype_g2@lemmy.ml
    6·
    3 months ago

    Interested in astronomy you say? Well mander.xyz describe themselves as a “An instance dedicated to nature and science.”. They have a astronomy community with, some activity - !astronomy@mander.xyz. I’m not on mander so I don’t know how things are there, but I pretty much don’t ever see anyone complaining about it.

    feddit.uk is a UK instance. So there might be some interesting things there for you.

    lemmy.ee is known for not defederating unless absolutely necessary.

    On the topic of defederating, lemmy.world is somewhat disliked due to their defederation happy tendencies. For the most part, though, this whole instance wars thing is mostly due to disagreements on what kind of political discourse should be allowed. Instances like lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net and lemmy.ml are a bit too left-wing for many people from the center-right to handle: the world views are just too different.

    I could rant about the dam instance wars, but it is not what you came were for.

  • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    3 months ago

    A small list of cool instances:

    • lemmy.blahaj.zone : chill place and people, LGBT (and especially trans) friendly

    • hexbear.net : very active and friendly instance that used to be separate from Lemmy. Most people are very various lefties

    • lemmy.ml : generalist instance, moderated by the devs of Lemmy. It is not marketed as a left instance but some socialists join there because of the .ml (Marxism Leninism)

  • Omega@discuss.online
    1·
    3 months ago

    Discuss.online has near 100% uptime and is very fast

    The administrators are p. Cool, they’re a good community