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.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    1·
    45 minutes ago

    Don’t worry about it. If you don’t post anything they disagree with (and most people don’t), you will not be annoyed by them.

    If you have only mainstream opinions, you will be fine. You don’t question mainstream science, you think everyone needs to vaccinate for the public good, and so on. Nothing strange for the majority.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    73·
    2 hours 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.

  • LedgeDrop@lemm.ee
    5·
    2 hours ago

    Lemm.ee: It’s the Switzerland of the fediverse. ;)

    The Operations Team are a stand-up group. Their focus is on delivering stability.

    You’ll basically get access to all content (and all “features”, like up-vote and down-vote - I’m looking at you beehaw).

    What I’ve heard from other people is that they want automagic curated content… so you won’t find that a lemm.ee, but for me - I’m happy to find the content that’s meaningful to me.

  • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    3 hours 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)

  • Contramuffin@lemmy.world
    182·
    4 hours 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
      5·
      3 hours 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

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Yeah, and you can just subscribe to the astronomy communities that are on other instances.

  • Karmmah@lemmy.world
    184·
    5 hours 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.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    For astronomy there is !astronomy@mander.xyz. The communities on mander.xyz are STEM focussed and usually well moderated.

    You could also try

    As for the instance, stay wherever you feel most comfortable. I have a few alts on other instances, including lemmy.world. You’re also free to move later if you decide to.

    If it helps I am based in the UK.

    You can also check out the instance / communities at

    https://feddit.uk/

  • thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    71·
    5 hours ago

    Try different ones out. I personally avoid Lemmy.world as there more pro capatilism and Oligarchy then other instances. And tend to block instances that are against capatilism and Oligarchy.