Got what I needed, thanks to those who responded in good faith!

This isn’t my main account but after poking around Lemmy for about half a year, this seems to be what people are saying (and my general impression)

  • Lemmygard, Hexbear - Ultra Tankies
  • Lemmy.ml - Commies and Tankies, the gateway to the above. Users can and will use every opportunity to drown others in Marxist rhetoric
  • Beehaw - Highly sensitive lefties who are blocking both lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works on Instance level because of open registration policy (as if registering to any instance takes effort).
  • slrpnk.net - Hippies who like cyberpunk
  • lemmy.dbzer0.com - Anarchists who hate tankies and any rules except their own, which are different and therefore better
  • lemmy.blahaj.zone - LGBTQ+ folk who hate tankies and lefties (i meant to write rightoids)
  • various regional instances - left leaning but according to above, not enough and therefor fascists and nazis
  • lemmy.world - open instance, therefor if you ask anyone above regional instances, basically fascists and nazis
  • sh.itjust.works - anything goes, therefor if you ask anyone above lemmy.world, basically fascists and nazis
  • programming.dev - nerds and therefor suspicious to everyone
  • piefed - no idea but judging by how people talk about it, Lemmy is clearly becoming too mainstream so some people feel they need to move into further obscurity.

anything else: either nazis or tankies depending on who you ask.

I really like Lemmy on paper but good god this instance drama is off-putting. Also it’s hard to find out which instances are blocking which instances - which I find silly altogether because people are specifically hyping fediverse because “iTs AlL coNnEcTeD” and “you are in charge of your feed”. I’m contemplating running one or two communities (and I’m totally fine with them being small and slow) but I don’t know where I dare to make them because apparently I’d have to be paying far closer attention to the nitty gritty of every bit of instance drama to make sure I’m not on “the wrong side”. Or if I make the communities on some instance with banhappy admins who decide that I’m a tankie/nazi because I allowed someone to post content from someone who said something vaguely wrong on Twitter 10 years ago.

Is there like a guide document somewhere that lists the features, vibes and general content policy, and banned instances and all that of at least the major instances? Because this is like walking on eggshells.

  • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    3 days ago

    They have a couple of good pages where they define solarpunk, I’ll share a few quotes below too.
    https://wiki.slrpnk.net/articles:whatissolarpunk
    https://wiki.slrpnk.net/articles:manifesto

    Solarpunk is a rebellion against the structural pessimism in our late visions of how the future will be.
    Not to say it replaces pessimism with Pollyanna-ish optimism, but with a cautious hopefulness and a daring to tease out the positive potentials in bad situations.
    Hope that perhaps the grounds of an apocalypse (revelation) might also contain the seeds of something better; something more ecological, liberatory, egalitarian, and vibrant than what came before, if we work hard at cultivating those seeds.

    Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question “what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?” […]

    1. We are solarpunks because optimism has been taken away from us and we are trying to take it back.
    2. We are solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair.
    3. At its core, Solarpunk is a vision of a future that embodies the best of what humanity can achieve: a post-scarcity, post-hierarchy, post-capitalistic world where humanity sees itself as part of nature and clean energy replaces fossil fuels.
    4. The “punk” in Solarpunk is about rebellion, counterculture, post-capitalism, decolonialism and enthusiasm. It is about going in a different direction than the mainstream, which is increasingly going in a scary direction.