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How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt?
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"considered" lol
Nobody would be surprised if it leaked tomorrow that they're literally operated out of the Kremlin or military city Beijing.
Wait, is "tankie" a synonym for fascist or something? I thought it meant durable. Lol
Yup, Red Fascists who support Russian invasion of Ukraine and think China owns Taiwan and definitely aren't committing multiple genocides within their territories. The pretend to care about worker solidarity and international peace while they promote Donald Trump and oppose NATO. They pretend to care about civil rights but they oppose liberalism and they think Trans people are a western psyop.
Here is a megathread detailing their behavior, hosted on lemmy.world but posted to the community !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
https://lemmy.world/post/29072279
I think I should probably just keep the alt in this general instance. I'm not looking for political talk or niche interest spaces. I just want to find a consistent and dependable place for mainstream topics.
Yeah, that is likely to work. And you'll get basically all of the same content no matter where. Some defederate the Tankie Triad, which results in better content.
I chose mine mainly based on it running on PieFed instead of Lemmy, because PieFed has a little more features and a nicer UI. And then secondly by this being hosted in the Nordic countries, where it is legal to say that genocides are always a bad thing. If there was something that defederated from the Tankie Triad, but fulfills the other two requirements I'd absolutely make the switch to that :)
I do love the UI. I tend to wing stuff, so I'll just go ahead with this.
Umm, any recs on how to get started before I stumble in the dark?
Started with what? :)
With making an account there.
Well, there's still the problem of finding an instance ;)
For choosing my own instance, I've found this tool very handy: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list .
Click the top of the column for uptime percentage. The ones with 100% are probably a bad idea, because that means they've never been updated. Then maybe take a look at where the server is located. If something looks good by these statistics, click the name of the instance to check the server version number. You generally won't want an instance that lags far behind others in the version number – that indicicates a lazy server admin. It's also good to read the instance description.
Also, note that this listing currently conflates PieFed and PyLova, even though they are now two separate codebases. They still look and feel about the same because PyLova was forked from PieFed such a short time ago.
Can I use the same email for different instances?
Yes. The two instances are completely separate servers and don't know about each other. Also, remember to take backups of your data regularly in case that your instance goes down.
Go to Settings, then "Import & Export" and press the "Export" button. You'll get a file that you can upload to another instance and keep going almost as if nothing had happened.
Oh, that solves the biggest issue for me. I don't want a bunch of new emails. Thanks.
For the record, I have about 15 accounts (alts) on various instances here. It took me "some" time to find out where I belong 🫣🤣
And when I finally did, I soon noticed I'm trans and that caused my old username to feel kind of "wrong" – a deadname of a kind. So, I had to create new alts and stopped using the old ones. Now I've got two alts I use regularly, and a third one I have as backup in case this favourite instance of mine goes belly-up at some point.
There's an excellent mobile app called Blorp that enables me to be logged into all 15-ish alts at the same time and receive private messages on all of them to what is basically one and the same inbox.
piefed.social isn't very big on the political side last time I checked, that's why I chose feddit.online instead, which is also a piefed instance. I highly reccomend piefed instances, or KBin/MBin, because the Lemmy instances in contrast are developed by those Tankies.
Tankie is a word coined for people who support the idea of a country using its military against its own people. A person saying that there was nothing wrong about the Tiananmen massacre is a tankie.