hexbear (a leftist instance) was defederated recently. lemmygrad.ml is “under discussion”.

lemmy.ml has too many general users thesedays imo, it would be very major to block it.

Nah lemmy.ml is still federated. You can see it listed here https://lemmy.world/instances

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

It’s blocked from lemmy.world. I’d recommend using LASIM and migrating to another instance like https://lemm.ee/ (note: you will need to manually resubscribe to !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com on your new account, since LASIM won’t be able to see it).

That’s not a copy of the main piracy community, that’s another piracy community that’s hosted on lemmy.world

The community people are talking about is !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, which is no longer accessible via lemmy.world

It appears !piracy@lemmy.ml is also blocked.

Are you that averse to ads that devs can’t even promote their other work lol?

I don’t care. They can figure it out or ask, lol.

Block the individual bots. You’ll get rid of them in one go.

You get Google app store credit for doing very short surveys. I’ve bought a few things with it

THey probably mean !shitposting@lemmygrad.ml or !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

For 196, there’s !196@lemmy.world and !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

The last two (shitpost@lemmy.world, blahaj) are both very active.

!cypherpunk@infosec.pub

!popheadscirclejerk@poptalk.scrubbles.tech

!idiotsincars@lemmy.world

I included a list of animal communities in this post here (among other fun/casual communities). Some you didn’t mention:

• !aww@lemmy.ml
• !aww@lemmy.world
• !awwnverts@lemmy.world
• !birding@lemmy.world
• !bugmenagerie@possumpat.io
• !bugs@lemmy.world
• !cat@lemmy.world
• !cats@lemmy.world
• !cats@midwest.social
• !dailydoseofcute@lemmy.world
• !dogs@lemmy.world
• !foxes@lemmy.world
• !gatze@feddit.de
• !illegallysmolcats@lemmy.world
• !quackers@lemmy.world
• !shiba@lemmy.world
• !spiders@lemmy.world

!selfhosted@lemmy.world

fixed link

Lemmy is still in that early link aggregator stage, Reddit was like this too for awhile.

as the saying goes, be the change you wish to see…

I made a list of good casual Lemmy communities recently that you might find helpful :)

!sysadmin@lemmy.world

!programmer_humor@programming.dev

!programminghumor@lemmy.world

!programmerhumor@lemmy.world

The most relevant,

• !cafe@monyet.cc - casual chat community
• !casualconversation@lemmy.world - another casual chat community
• !ukcasual@lemmy.world

There’s also other “ask” communities:

• !asklemmy@lemmy.world - same as this one
• !askmeanything@lemmy.ca - AMA’s with interesting people
• !asktheworld@lemm.ee - conversations about cross-cultural differences
• !askuk@feddit.uk

Might also be worth checking:

• !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
• !showerthoughts@lemmy.world

As they are also discussion based.

already exists, !fediverselore@lemmy.ca and !lemmydrama@lemmy.world

there’s also !drama@lemmy.world or !drama@exploding-heads.com

@Itty53@kbin.social

Just block the bots. Keep the ones that generate a decent amount of conversation.