I have been on Lemmy for a while now but never posted anything as a new post so please forgive me if I am doing anything wrong.

I see that I am part of lemmy.world and that this instance is frowned upon.

Is there a better instance I can join? I am not very clued up on Lemmy and as far as I can see it is made up of lots of different sites which are linked together.

I just want to be part of a healthy group and I am just getting into astronomy so are there any good groups for that please?

If it helps I am based in the UK.

Have a great weekend all.

Edit: sorry for the late response another 6 day week at work. Thank you all so much for the very useful advice!

  • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 days ago

    This was a while ago, but I want to clarify,

    I reccommended avoiding beehaw because its typically not what people are looking for out of lemmy. Don’t get me wrong, they have a great community and its very well moderated, but its likely not what OP wanted.

    I didn’t reccommend hex, grad and .ml because of the tankies and because they are controversial and get defederated a lot. I have immense respect for hexbears defense of lgbt rights, but they probably aren’t the best for your average lemmy worlder.

    • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 day ago

      Thank you for clarifying but I think you go over the main topic a bit quickly. What does it mean “because of the tankies”? Who are the tankies and what have they done that is to be avoided by going to another instance?

      • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Well, the people who are fans of authoritiarian regimes(like the soviet union), and are pro china/russia. Those instances specifically house those people, which leads to them getting defederated from major instances.