I chose sopuli because I liked the name and had seen some people from it and I wanted a new on in the big lemmy.world outage, I didn't choose it for particular rules or culture, and tbh I rarely use the account, except for browsing all sometimes so I couldn't tell you what the instance is like, besides the steam deck community being there for some reason. And for the record I don't randomly call people Nazis or Qanon.
About MLs/tankies
In my experience MLs and tankies are basically the same, they call themselves MLs but others who dislike them call them tankies, though there are others who would also fall under tankies, and also some MLs who would dispute my characterisations to follow. They are technically leftists, somewhat related to democratic socialists like myself in sharing some of the same values but are ok with authoritarian means of either creating a socialist/communist state (such as a vanguard party) or sustaining it. As such they often defend China and Russia/Soviet union. Basically communists (Marxist) but authoritarian (Leninist).
There's a decent chance lemmygrad is defederated. For some reason browsing all on lemmy.world will occasionally pop up lemmygrad posts from a year or a few ago. Doesn't happen on sopuli.xyz, my second account tho.
Also, might just be a few tankie communities on Lemmy.ml then, not the whole instance.
Hoo boy you'd hate his connextras channel then. His main channel is fully scripted, the second channel is all the extra stuff, but just unscripted rambling and discussion of stuff. It's great
I've had the same issue, but on a different instance over the past week. Interestingly I've been able to login to a different non-default instance, sopuli.xyz, but not lemmynsfw.com
Yeah it's gonna be a shit show, but for anyone who wants to help draw people over here and take advantage of it, come join the community I just made to make a join lemmy banner on it.
There will 100% be mod overreach, but I'm guessing/hoping it will be more focused on removing people making a big API and fuck u/spez. Sure, those few of us working on maintaining it will add some clicks but it's a drop in the ocean to them. Its a public place (pun unintended) seen by a great many people. The benefit to us will be greater than to reddit.
The way I know is that L4s is a known bot in the community, he maintainer actually commented a post unmade last night about the bots confirming it which was nice
I think it's fine for now personally, the only recommendations I would make to you and other bot creators are to add a thing to check that a link hasn't already been posted, and maybe to decrease the frequency a bit.
I chose sopuli because I liked the name and had seen some people from it and I wanted a new on in the big lemmy.world outage, I didn't choose it for particular rules or culture, and tbh I rarely use the account, except for browsing all sometimes so I couldn't tell you what the instance is like, besides the steam deck community being there for some reason. And for the record I don't randomly call people Nazis or Qanon.
About MLs/tankies In my experience MLs and tankies are basically the same, they call themselves MLs but others who dislike them call them tankies, though there are others who would also fall under tankies, and also some MLs who would dispute my characterisations to follow. They are technically leftists, somewhat related to democratic socialists like myself in sharing some of the same values but are ok with authoritarian means of either creating a socialist/communist state (such as a vanguard party) or sustaining it. As such they often defend China and Russia/Soviet union. Basically communists (Marxist) but authoritarian (Leninist).