All the mentionedinstances are fairly small with minimal activity except Division by Zero whose terms include no extreme right wing and no anti-science which makes me question their free speech commitment. Would they regard any questioning of the government's propaganda concerning COVID as anti-science and extreme right wing? I'm beginning to question whether Lemmy is irredeemable. I recently posted from another instance to communities outside that instance and while I was not censored by the instance from which I posted, I got tons of negative comments from Marxists. The trolls on Lemmy seem overwhelming.

hey, I'm the admin of lemdit.com, thought I'd offer you my 2 cents.

Generally speaking anyone is welcome on Lemdit. We're not a political instance, nor are we a strictly 'free speech' one. What this means is any ideas are welcome irrespective of political lean, but slurs, attacks or calls for violence are not. To give you a concrete example, disagreeing with government covid policy is fine, calling people fags is not.

Lemdit is indeed a tiny instance. This isn't really an issue as far as content and engagement is concerned thanks to federation, but it does mean we're a very small fish that can be easily killed if we get defederated. We're not big enough to survive under our own content steam, so if you do join, please try to keep this in mind.

The only instances we've defederated are ones that host loli porn. In general, anything that can get us into legal trouble is gone on the spot (I don't mean the lemmy.world interpretation of legal). Otherwise I don't live in the US and I make it a point not to get involved in politics one way or the other, so you will not see me defederate or block anything based on politics.

Lemdit is also self-hosted and costs me very little to run, so this isn't a donations grift, we're not looking to grow at all costs, etc.

You can find more info here: https://lemdit.com/post/2915 https://lemdit.com/post/13

If this sounds like you, then feel free to sign up.

Do you know if these are supposed to be free speech? Most of them seem like they haven't really posted well defined rules, except for dbzer0 -marxists.

Straylight and basedcount seem promising but really depends on if admins are cool with us or not and to what degree. personally i don't really want to invest too much in a place where we aren't welcome, especially on lemmy where we can be censored.

As a tech, I like lemmy featureset way way more than nostr so far but seems like we do really keep hitting a wall with censorship there.

Would non -lemmy, free-speech Reddit clones be an option in the meantime? I would be down for signing up on lotus or saidit or whatever as long as i can post stupid shit wo getting banned and people going to be there to bs with. Might try creating some alts today or tomorrow

I created a profile at based count. The chewy center of that instance is Political Compass Memes. And you need all four quadrants (including us) to make that work. So we should have a home there, in theory.

If it's anything like reddit's version it'll be irreverent and fun.

I like lemm.ee. They are in favor of users blocking as needed rather than power tripping and defederating.

hexbear.net seems like a nice place from what I've seen. Far far left, but in a lulzy way. Haven't looked into their policies.

add links.hackliberty.org maybe, they have been around since wolfballs days and someone mentioned them in another post; admittedly there seem to be few users there

Have you guys (and Alice) heard about this small cosy instance called lemmy.world ?