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Political Compass Memes

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.basedcount.com/post/114721

My humble takes on the most popular Lemmy instances, or "how to piss off the whole Fediverse with a single meme".

Here are the links to each one of the mentioned instances:

Far Left Centre Left Centre Right Far Right
Lemmygrad Exploding Heads
Hexbear Lemmy.ml Lemmy.world
Beehaw Pricefield Lemmy Based Count sh.itjust.works
Blåhaj Lemmy Divisions by zero Lemmy NSFW Hack Liberty
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[–] TheBat 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Political compass is a cringe concept ngl

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Believing in it is. As a tool of expression it has limited uses. But ultimately it's an abstraction ungrounded from objective reality.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

isn't the option to ignore an instance as a user coming to Lemmy real soon? I need that, hexbear can go fly a kite

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some apps have it, I use it on Connect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~hmm yes sadly Sync doesn't have that option yet. But~~ that combined with a browser extension to filter posts on the website could work fine tho

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

sync does have that option. its in the settings under filters, you can filter whole instances

/edit: settings->general->filters->instance filters

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

oh nice, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sync's filter doesn't block comments unfortunately, so it's of little help against users from Hexbear when they brigade.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yes it is. Hopefully with 0.18.5, I'd like to think it's been made a higher priority now.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This compass is almost as stupid as the original political compass. Nice work with this unscientific filth.

[–] Ragdoll_X 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I bet OP's understanding of politics can be succinctly summarized by this video lol

Like in what world does lemmy.world lean to the right? It's full of leftists and liberals, I think I've seen like two people who sounded like they leaned to the right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"I went to the instance and read a post and it was right wing so they are right wing"

TIL i am right wing because I have an account on lemmy.world. now that's scyense!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Liberals lean to the right.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is there an ijustwanna.grill?

[–] alokir 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy.be would be a good domain for grill centrists

[–] cazyius 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m in the Lemmy.world bubble trying to educate myself about the rest and evaluate if I might need to migrate someplace else. And also trying to figure out the difference between instances. But I can’t figure out what “based” means or is referring to?

Thanks for this btw! It’s really informative

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"Based" means the person using it thinks whatever they're referring to is incredibly awesome, a paragon of virtue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm going to ~~shill~~ suggest lemm.ee, it's a lovely instance that isn't defederated from most (for better or worse, some people can't stand hexbear but soon lemmy will add the ability to block instances at the user level, rather than defederating) and the lead admin is very sharp with the development - he's even helped other instances when they've had major issues and he's made various contributions to the lemmy codebase. It always feels like we're getting the latest and slickest version of everything, with fewer bugs than other instances.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yup I was on world and switched to lemm.ee and I love it for the above reasons

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blocking instances on the user level doesn't solve the core issue which is that Hexbear brigades, trolls and harasses enmasse in the first place. Their comments might be hidden for you, but they're still a problem for everyone else. Blocking them is really just putting a bandaid over the problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hexbear doesn't brigade from what I've seen, there's just more of them and they're very active. If a post is at the top of your feed it's likely to be at the top of theirs also.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you haven't seen it, that's genuinely surprising. It's what they're known for at this point. Any thread about China, Russia or Ukraine gets flooded by them on any instance still federated with them. They shut down discussion, spam huge ugly emojis, and argue in bad faith to defend authoritarian regimes. They aren't being defederated enmasse for being well-behaved.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The huge emojis is a lemmy bug, one which has basically been fixed (at least the lemm.ee admin seems to have fixed it, I imagine he's pushed the code to the main stack but others won't necessarily have adopted it yet).

I remember seeing a bit of a burst of them interacting with stuff when they first federated, but since then it died down massively - and not just because they'd been defederated, but in the threads they were still a part of. The novelty quickly wore off and users on both sides started noticing where they were posting more (hexbear users when they step out and lemmy users when they went in to hexbear) and behaving accordingly. Frankly, I've seen far more posts spamming moans about them than actual things to moan about.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You’re absolutely right about pricefield lemmy, it’s super cute.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a former user of lemmy.world. I agree with this meme. That place is even worse than reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh it’s awful. I hated it there and tried to not engage. It would have been helpful to know what each instance was like when I made an account on each of them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Shit just works almost allowed 1 conservative community is your bar for far right? Lol I'd say they're pretty centrist but I don't know the details of the banned community.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Where do you place us Sopuli users, QuentinCallaghan? 😃

[–] p05 6 points 1 year ago

So that's why Ive not been seeing half my subscriptions. Guess I gotta swap instances again.

[–] Moc 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How do I move instance, and can I take my shit-posts with me?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're not a true lemming unless you have accounts in all of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Gotta catch em' all!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where would you place the diy focused lemmies?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I guess I’m off to meet my maker. Later nerds!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh hey sup, looks like my meme got reposted to a spin off PCM community I wasn't even aware of, thanks for spreading the good word.

I suppose DIY folks would lean libright, something about wanting to fix your own stuff without having to rely on a community (communities tend to be associated with the left) + right to repair and wanting to do things your own way (libertarian).

... but of course without an instance or a community list to look at it's hard to tell @[email protected].

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Why the hell is beehaw so far left

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You didn't include that hardcore libitarian crypto instance who made it to all yesterday with one of their users spamming about how taxation is theft.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Monero.town? Yeah, that user was nutty.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm degenerate and I'm proud!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everything at the top of that can just go away. I don't mind left or right wing necessarily. but their complete unwillingness to even concede the other people may have a point is infuriating. Interacting with them is pointless.

[–] nomadjoanne 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed about lemmy.world being cringe and lame. Gonna find a new instance as soon as I can find the time to do so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you. Because of this meme I know know what instances I should look for

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I liked the look of Hack Liberty, but it's pretty much dead there aside from the Netsec comm, and even then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well, you're not wrong.