world has the same issue and isnt tankie. the top 5 largest instances are based on ideology besides zip and the canadian and german ones

If the community I want to participate is on an instance I don’t like or disagree with their instance-wide rules, what can I do?

Besides lemmy.zip (i havent used it yet), I’ve noticed all of the most populated english-lang instances do this. I’d cite examples but I don’t feel like it.

No offense: Lemmy is over modded and filled with brigading tankies, anarchists, libs, etc. The mods cant tolerate dissent and its frustrating to watch. It just makes an even smaller more dense echo chamber than reddit. Not to mention this FAF drama over nothing. The main plus side is that people aren’t rabidly using LLM’s to write posts, which is why I started an account here.

As well, Ghislaine Maxwell isn’t a major sub mod here and Lemmy isn’t being used for Hasbara by Israel, for now.

Oh and the lack of more hobby-oriented communities is a major short-coming, and probably why Reddit still maintains a large userbase. Self-hosted and the radio instance are great examples, and more communities around those topics can bring folks over here.