I’ve been noticing a lot of back and forth between instances, changes of stances etc. I was wondering if there is any place that just collects what each instance represents from a philosophical perspective. This would be great in helping people choosing an instance before they join, or later if they want to switch to another instance.
i wonder if anything could be gleaned from automated scanning of community names and descriptions and modlogs
How and who would you compile such a list and what does it bring? I guess it would provide us with more entertainment watching the ensueing squabbles. eg I’m an aethiest, green, anarchist, cis, old white guy. If i had a bug up my arse, the beauty is I can start my own instance.
That said, a lot of people, including myself most times, have zero interest in my views.
Also would be good to know which instances are defederated from each instance.
I feel as if such a ‘list’ being public would only create more strife between instances. Not EVERYONE from .ml is a tankie, some people didn’t know when they signed up and just never left as an example.
It would also be massively biased to whomever maintains the list. Not sure I’d trust such a thing.
I created my account in 2020, waaay before the Reddit API thing. Back then there were only like three instances to pick from
It would likely be manually curated by an individual asking the people that run the instances. It would hopefully not be interpreted.
I’m Sorry but philosophical perspectives can only be known through interpretation. Ask any two people what a communist is and you WILL get two different answers, obviously there will be many similarities between the two answers but the nuance will be different.
All that being said…
If this is something you really want, I’m sure it won’t be too hard to get ahold of the instance admins to get the answers you desire. And if you make a place, or community or website or whatever to host that information, we’ll, I’m sure it won’t be too hard.
lemmy.world neoliberal psy-op
lemmy.ml communist but not insane
hexbear communist insane
lemmygrad.ml communist insane
dbzer0 anarchist sane
slrpnk anarchist sane
these are what i know.
Expanding:
mander.xyz - science
sh.itjust.works - no ideology but fully powered by renewable energy
feddit.[some country] - that country (German: feddit.org, not feddit.de)
programming.dev - IT
(Also not sure if I’d call lemmy.ml sane, there is a lot of Lenin/Stalin/Tito/Mao/etc relativism there)
