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Talk about whatever, respecting the rules established by Lemmygrad. Failing to comply with the rules will grant you a few warnings, insisting on breaking them will grant you a beautiful shiny banwall.
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Thank you. I appreciate your input.
Any instances you'd recommend that are leftest? I initially joined a mastodon instance (then tried using lemmy, it was confusing, but consistent with your description of how they interact), but there was enough neoliberalism that it might have just as well been @wasnt_obama.great.
Mastodon overall is much more anarchist & radlib vs socialist/communist compared to Lemmy which imho makes it difficult to find a cozy instance. But I have two Masto accounts: one on tilde.zone for more neutral content and a more "leftist" one on anticapitalist.party.
The latter is pretty decent and they don't outright ban communists (looking at you, todon.nl), so I'd probably recommend there if you're looking for an instance with a political bent.
I understand. tilde.zone looks to be into linux, which I'm definitely into as well, so I'll probably try it out. I'm not even looking of for a super political instance, just not posts celebrating gay women who are drone pilots (or something else who knows, and yes that's an actual post I saw).
I think that'll always be an issue, but overall most Mastodon instances (at least the ones I've seen) don't really have too much of that, at least in comparison to Reddit. I think the biggest issue you can come across are the techbros; there are a lot of them on Mastodon. I feel like finding nerdy tech spaces that aren't filled with bros is as difficult as finding socialist spaces!
It would be great to have a list of different Mastodon instances and their political culture and moderation. It was a major headache for me to make an account there trying to navigate that myself.
A lot of the sites that try to act as a Mastodon instance browser are janky :/ and they definitely don't give enough info on the instance, but that's also on the instance admins. Most instances have nowhere near enough information on political culture and moderation, and the ones that do seem to be very much as what beehaw is trying to do, with the exception that they don't defederate with everyone