At least on the communities i follow. Every so often I come across a thread where i recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members and I haven’t even been on lemmy that long.

  • Cowbee [he/him]
    54·
    2 months ago

    Lemmy.world is defederated from the major Marxist instances, so you might want to join a different instance for a fresh look. Lemmy in general is small enough to be dominated easily, what helps this is finding a good instance and treating said instance like a community with different tags, rather than treating communities like subreddits.

    • GrammarPolice@lemmy.worldOP
      21·
      2 months ago

      I have an account on sh.itjust.works that i rarely use. Then again, do i want to see posts from Marxists, especially the ones defederated from .world?

      • Cowbee [he/him]
        5·
        2 months ago

        Sh.itjust.works is also defederated. If you’re a liberal, then you probably don’t care for Marxism and Lemmy.world is going to be fine, the mods are anti-Marxism as well. You’ll just run into the same issue of having a few posters dominate is all.

        • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          1 month ago

          IIRC, sh.itjust.works refederated with hexbear several months ago. I just don’t think the userbase engages in a lot of those communities.

          Then again, I browse by All New pretty frequently, and I’ve never seen a hexbear post that way that I can recall. So idk.

          • Cowbee [he/him]
            5·
            2 months ago

            Hexbear is Marxist, yes, and is defederated with sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world.

            • GrammarPolice@lemmy.worldOP
              21·
              2 months ago

              Does defederation mean I only can’t make any posts or comments to that instance. Because i can still view and seemingly join hexbear communities on my sh.itjust.works alt.