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That's pretty much it, yeah. It's worth noting, there is a lot of animosity on here, particularly from .world, for .ml and .hexbear instances. Both are heavily communist, far left communities, and get a bad rep because they are known for not accommodating liberal or other not as left viewpoints. This was particularly heated around the election with disagreements about voting for liberals vs protest voting.
Fwiw I'm a strong believer if we are to organize against literal fascism we will need the liberal and the farther left to find enough common ground to work together. It's a......work in progress on here.
db0 (my instance and @Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com' ) is a leftist anarchist instance and I'd say the animosity towards tankies is even stronger here.
it's not anything to do with liberals vs leftists it's that they handwave genocide and other atrocities as "western propaganda" and worship lennin and mao and stalin and north korea and so on and so forth.
Huh. Made this account long ago when first API issues started in reddit, and didn't know each instance was divided by political orientation.
Luckily we're all federated so it makes no real difference I guess.
they're not all strictly that way, db0 is one of the few that is (you have to be a leftist to join, it was a part of the application)
.world is known as primarily liberal but I think that's just due to the fact that it's the largest and the majority of users are left in the American sense (center right)
.ml and hexbear are probably explicitly "communist", haven't given them enough attention to be certain but all of their users are tankies
lemmy.blahaj.zone is primarily (strictly?) trans, leans left in the actual sense but that's not the point of the instance
lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, programming.dev don't seem to have official political leanings but I might be wrong about that. haven't looked into it.
id say the biggest concern about the instance you pick is that !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is blocked to all .world users. that's the main reason I ended up making this account and abandoning the .world account I had been using since apipocalypse
Honestly I didn't think anything of it when I joined back then, I just made a couple of accounts to check them out. Didn't write anything political in my application either, I'm pretty sure.
Thanks for the explanation, though. Nice overview. It's good to know!