I’ve heard people talking about e.g. not subscribing to lemmy.world communities (because they are the largest instance), and others like Lemmygrad seems to be defederated by quite many instances. But what about lemmy.ml? Should that instance and those communities also be avoided? The “issue” is that many large communities seem to be based on that instance. Like [email protected] and [email protected]

  • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
    253·
    3 days ago

    I would recommend completely ignoring what Instance people/communities are hosted on

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
      91·
      3 days ago

      I generally do, but every once in a while I’ll encounter some very interesting circlejerks and realize that I ended up in the lemmy.ml version of AskLemmy, lol

      • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
        51·
        3 days ago

        To be fair, the .ml version is the largest so you’ll inevitably see a mix of both thoughtful comments, and horribly stupid comments.