That’s an obvious irony. It’s not meant literally. But posts criticizing CCP are being deleted with a strange comment “orientalism” which I personally never came across before.

I remember reading a post on lemmy.ml today where several instances have been defederated for “loose registration process”. Lemmy.world was among them. But of course I can’t find it again, so I might have gotten something wrong or just someone posting BS.

I feel a bit more reassured that I am safe here. I will check out the CLI tools for ActivityPub, thank you for pointing me in this direction.

Someone mentioned to check out what admins are writing about themselves, what communities they are in to get a gist of a possible leaning of an instance. That turned out to be a helpful tip if you check out the lemmy.ml admins.

Thank you for your kind reply. I have seen that list already. Two points:

Lemmy.ml although listed has defederated Lemmy.world

There are mastodon instances, but I fail to see what they provide to Lemmy or vice versa.

I second Mint with XFCE. I have been using it for a decade and since I’m family tech support guy I installed it on all the PCs I have to support including some used for watching TV and YouTube high end Thinkpads, cheap Laptops used for school. It stays out of my way and just works. Of course there are issues here and there, but it was most solid distro for me. The ease of upgrade is stunning, dealing with Ubuntu servers an upgrade is almost always a new install and data migration, with Mint upgrading feels easy and fun.