The hexbear.net instance went down, because the admins forgot to renew the domain name

(Technically the server was still running, but federation works via domain names)

I also recommend !newcommunities@lemmy.world

And bots. Lots of bots. Russian bots, Chinese bots, just random AI bots that make look Xitter a little bit less dead.

It originated somewhere here on Lemmy, can’t find the original post, only a comment that references it: https://lemmy.zip/comment/10082020 (I know that this is not the original post/comment, because that commenter is on lemmy.zip, so they can’t upload media to lemmy.dbzer0.com’s pictrs instance)

I’m not saying this is a fact, or anything scientific (I’m sorry if it appeared that way), but I personally find it pretty accurate, and many people here agree

what instance i use? currently just using the account i previously made.

You can’t access piracy communities like !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com from lemmy.world, so if you’re interested in that, you need to switch

There’s a diagram that illustrates this pretty well:

Is the meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works like an observatory of .ml shenanigans?

Yes, it was started as an observatory of lemmygrad.ml, but it’s also relevant to lemmy.ml and hexbear.net (the Tankie triad). There are also !tankiejerk@lemmy.world, which just focuses on all kinds of tankies from all instances, !fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com, which focuses on disinformation (again, from all instances) and !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com, which focuses on moderator overreach (for all instances). It’s also the official, approved and recommended way of complaining about mod action here on lemmy.dbzer0.com.

I once saw a comment by a European explaining American politics to another European.

“Their left is our right, their right is our far right, and their far right are literal flag waving Nazis.”