I decided to give Mastodon another shot here recently, I found exactly one promising leftist instance, mastodon.lol. Bills itself as an "LGBT-friendly antifascist mastodon instance"

I watched another user get banned for saying that Azov were neonazis and I got banned for sticking up for them, then as part of his 240V power trip the admin posted a pity thread where he claimed we called him literally Hitler.

The only other leftist instance I saw welcomed all socialists except "authoritarians" so I assume it's either a socdem or sectarian anarchist instance.

TL;DR - Mastodon hasn't changed at all, it's still ran by power-tripping micro tyrants

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    2 years ago

    i've definitely seen ML instances. i'll look around and send you some.

    I think a hexbear instance would be extremely cool, but I don't think our lovely admins need another project to manage.

    • luther7718 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      TY I'd appreciate that. And yeah, moderating one site is more than enough work

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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        2 years ago

        Okay so at a glance the only explicitly Marxist one I can find is tankie.ml, which is a BookWyrm instance, not Mastodon or some other microblogging service. It federates with activitypub, but not really what you're looking for.

        I am finding open communists on these sites tho:

        • mastodon.social: by necessity of being the flagship instance, it has generally lax moderation standards, so a good number of commies. I think as long as you're not harassing people or posting porn you're probably safe, but might be more annoying libs than you'd like
        • mastodon.online: similar to above
        • necropolis.online: tiny, might not be open to applicants
        • tech.lgbt: i know a few comrades on here, seems not overly radlib
        • octodon.social: invite only, but nice ppl
        • monads.online: elite level posters, approach with caution (also invite only)
        • dads.cool: fatherhood focused community, so try to have a kid first
        • mk.nixnet.social: misskey server attached to a pleroma server, but without the usual nazis afaict
        • antibaka.me: animu focused
        • tilde.zone: my home instance :)

        update: i asked the admin of tankie.ml and they also suggested

        • hellsite.site
        • egirls.gay (invite only)
        • jumanji.co
        • telescope.garden (small, closed applications)
        • myasstodon.xyz (BIPOC only)
        • goblin.camp
        • elekk.xyz
        • Ideology [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          monads has had quite a few struggle sessions on the network from hosting "tankies" (they usually responded that they find other instances have a habit of being racist towards them). I think they're pretty close with octodon.