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Where should I go?? I thought .ml was bad
Lemmy.ml is seen as "bad" on Lemmy.world because the average opinion of Marxism-Leninism on Lemmy.world is negative, but that's not the case everywhere. If you aren't hostile to MLs, Lemmy.ml is fine.
It really depends in what you want in an instance, though. My favorite instances are the niche ones that stick to a common subject or theme, mander.xyz is a good example of a science-focused instance, or Hexbear.net which is focused on Left-Unity and anti-Capitalism.
Hexbear is an interesting beast. It tends to be really insular because it is defederated by a lot of the bigger instances. But it does have a strong sense of community, and a lot of its own in-jokes. From the outside looking in, it often looks like a dumpster fire. But the reality is that it’s more like old 4chan, where it always looks like a dumpster fire on the surface… Then when you dig deeper and start understanding some of the memes, you realize it’s actually a really interesting community ^surrounded^ ^by^ ^a^ ^dumpster^ ^fire^
Most people are mad at hexbear because their moderation policies are consequentialist not deontological and thus more stringent against stupid online shit. As a poster you don't have a "right" to post on hexbear, however the community has a right to be protected. As such it's one of the better places if you don't want to read reams upon reams of lib coded bigotry.