here’s a good list of communities I came across today, subbed to a bunch myself

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/17176543

as everyone else has said most instances are chill but avoid the tankie triad

maybe woosh @me but Michelin stars only go up to 3

they’re not all strictly that way, db0 is one of the few that is (you have to be a leftist to join, it was a part of the application)

.world is known as primarily liberal but I think that’s just due to the fact that it’s the largest and the majority of users are left in the American sense (center right)

.ml and hexbear are probably explicitly “communist”, haven’t given them enough attention to be certain but all of their users are tankies

lemmy.blahaj.zone is primarily (strictly?) trans, leans left in the actual sense but that’s not the point of the instance

lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, programming.dev don’t seem to have official political leanings but I might be wrong about that. haven’t looked into it.

id say the biggest concern about the instance you pick is that !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is blocked to all .world users. that’s the main reason I ended up making this account and abandoning the .world account I had been using since apipocalypse

that’s true of liberalism in the US as well, it’s just as far left as our Overton Window goes.

yeah communism is a dirty word here because of the red scare but the youngins are reading Marx and learning it’s pretty based, some people drink the flavor-aide of the authoritarian regimes that claim to be communist (but aren’t) and that’s how tankies came to be.

oh yeah hard agree that communist != tankie, there are a lot of anarcho-communists here. id say even Marxist doesn’t necessarily mark someone as a tankie. Marxist-Lenninist though, Maoist, or anyone that refers to nk as “The DPRK” though, those are all probably tankies.

if you think that sentiment is rare you don’t spend much time on .ml or chapo.chat(hexbear) which is good! keep that up :)

I agree that leftists need to work together, nobody hates a leftist more than another leftist but atrocity denialism is a line in the sand that I will not cross. absolutely unacceptable behavior indicative of a fetishization of fascism above all else, just colored as “Communism, comrade.”

db0 (my instance and @Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com’ ) is a leftist anarchist instance and I’d say the animosity towards tankies is even stronger here.

it’s not anything to do with liberals vs leftists it’s that they handwave genocide and other atrocities as “western propaganda” and worship lennin and mao and stalin and north korea and so on and so forth.

holy shit I can’t believe I’m agreeing with a .ml user about something

I am an alcoholic and I liked your joke :3

wow that number is a lot higher than I would have expected, what would you be throwing most of it at?

per @ilmagico@lemmy.world in another comment here:

The old jelly pro had a decent modding community, and I definitely was able to unlock the bootloader and root it, though not sure about degoogling.

I’m not really sure. what happened when it was no longer officially supported?

yeah the screen is very small but that’s kinda the point for my use case. I didn’t want all the limitations of a dumbphone (i.e. I wanted banking apps, gps, useful browser) but I wanted to add friction to my phone use to encourage me to use it less.

battery life is great, lasts me almost 2 days without a charge and will typically go from almost dead to almost full if I plug it in while driving to work. part of the battery life being so good is that I use it less and keep it in grayscale 99% of the time I figure though.

camera is great, it’s 48MP the same as an iPhone 14 Pro. the pictures don’t look great on the device because of the tiny screen but when I look at them on my computer or the pixel 6 I still use at home they look great.

speaker is pretty awful, it’s fine for calls but music, fuhgeddaboudit! I have a Bluetooth clip on speaker that’s great and I don’t really watch videos on it so non-issue, for me at least.

screen res hasn’t bothered me but again that might just be use-case. most of what I do is reading text and it’s fine for that esp with high contrast on, looks ugly but again that’s friction and I want that.

not sure. stacking niches means there’s a good chance the answer is no though.

if it’s just a matter of specs it should be up to it, the hardware is pretty beefy for a phone, but I figure there’s more to it than that.

personally I don’t have the spoons to pour in the effort required to degoogle. the fact that the algs and few ads I see are completely irrelevant to me suggest that I have thoroughly confused them by how non-standard my internet usage is. I’m not overly concerned about the data they do get or what they do with it.

there are enough Man-Made Horrors Beyond My Comprehension™️ keeping me up at night but you do you

this is definitely a trade off. batteries are either small, tall, or thick. my phone with a 3" screen is quite bulbous.

I prefer that to it being thin and having like 3 hours of use time though

there is one option.

well and a couple others that are also made by Unihertz depending on your needs/wants

more companies making them would be cool but the general consensus I’m reading here is that there are 0 and that is incorrect.

you could get a Unihertz Jelly Star like me

I’m probably gonna annoy people with this but I will shout it from the rooftops

Unihertz makes one.

my Chinese tiny phone has a name, it’s the Unihertz Jelly Star. they even have a subreddit, not sure what makes you think it’s a “no name” they make a lot of phones for niches in today’s world including one with a physical qwerty keyboard.

now the fact that they’re the only company filling those niches sucks, but it’s better than nobody doing it.

I’ve been maining a Unihertz Jelly Star, I quite like it.

ahhh that’s so cool! thank you so much for sharing so much info!

I will definitely be checking these out they sound very cool.

Czechia/CR (what do you call it?) is definitely on my travel list, chasing bohemia is something that I think my soul needs. the idea of bohemia has always resonated with me massively.