Hi comrades. I posted a link to a Michael Parenti lecture on kolektiva.social yesterday and got banned as a ‘tankie’. So I’m looking for a mastadon instance that isnt full of libs and questions the official narrative on all these wars. I found two left leaning instances but they are invite only apparently. Anyone got a recommendation?

  • Bloops
    23·
    11 months ago

    toots.matapacos.dog is Hexbear affiliated (not official though) and unfederated with kolektiva.social out of security concerns. Looking at the people I follow who are mostly communists, the following instances may be fine:

    • union.place
    • tenforward.social
    • jorts.horse
    • mas.to very big instance that Yogthos is on
    • JTurtle
      3·
      11 months ago

      matapacos defederated from kolektiva for what security concerns? i too am a kolektiva user hiding my power level and looking to migrate, but i dont want to lose the comrades ive met on kolektiva :(

      • Bloops
        4·
        11 months ago

        The FBI obtained an unencrypted copy of their database, and then the Kolektiva admins took over a month to tell people about it. Matapacos did a poll on whether to defederate and it was a 11-4 decision to do so. Here is the full thread on the matter. https://toots.matapacos.dog/@porkroll/110647135565812578

        Likewise, we defederated from mastodon.world because one of their admins was trying to dox people. There was no vote on that though. Here’s the toot on that. https://toots.matapacos.dog/@porkroll/110861825359049168

        You will probably want to find a go-between instance that federates both with Kolektiva and matapacos then.

        • JTurtle
          2·
          11 months ago

          those links don’t work. also i noticed i follow @prolewiki@matapacos.dog perfectly fine, though a lot of the acct’s follows/followers dont show up from kolektiva. are you sure it’s still defederated?

          • Bloops
            1·
            11 months ago

            Oh shoot you probably need an account to view it then? IDK why you can follow prolewiki. Maybe I am misunderstanding something about suspension.

  • PeeOnYou [he/him]
    92·
    11 months ago

    i got banned from mstdn.social for unknown reasons … just got an email out of the blue one day saying they’d warned me and now i was banned… no f’n idea what it was about

    probably something i said that was ‘tankie’ i’m willing to bet

    • redtea
      2·
      11 months ago

      Were you p****g on anyone at the time? That would probably do it tbh.

    • lemmyseizethemeansOP
      16·
      11 months ago

      It’s the new McCarthy witch-hunt except saying “commie” is too pathetic so now the fashionable invective is “Tankie”

      First you dehumanize opposition…

  • CriticalResist8A
    5·
    11 months ago

    matapacos.dog is essentially the only one apparently, maintained by a hexbear user.

    wasn’t kolektiva the instance that was raided by the FBI?

    • Cysioland
      3·
      11 months ago

      yeah, kolektiva is extremely “western anarchist”

      • lemmyseizethemeansOP
        3·
        11 months ago

        Middle class lib anarchist. Never been arrested protesting war anarchist. Sure as hell ain’t in the streets anarchist

    • Cysioland
      3·
      11 months ago

      it’s mostly federated Twitter, but with a different sort of people

      i kinda like the vibe, though I’m running my own instance (which bit me in the ass as early as yesterday, lol) and carefully selecting whomst I follow

  • comradeRichardEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    There’s a few anarchists I follow on the kolektica instance, I’ve also been searching for a more leftist mastodon instance

  • redtea
    1·
    11 months ago

    I can’t help. I’m only commenting to say that I tried to set up accounts on a few instances and backed tf out when they insisted on adding a valid email. Can’t remember what they were, unfortunately.