Mine start as trying to draw people or objects but end up as a dense bunch of abstract shapes with a few patterns and vague faces hidden inside if no one stops me after a while

23 days ago is when the lemm.ee shutdown got announced

https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek https://mastodon.art/@MicroSFF

Lemmy has an algorithm though (active, hot, and scaled sorting)

I’m new to this as well, I just chose this instance to switch to (also from lemm.ee) because I’m queer and knew this instance did a good job keeping out assholes.

In general I think most instances on here are leftist or at least left-leaning. The general recommendation for lemm.ee users is currently lemmy.zip, if you want a dedicated political instance I only know of the anarchist lemmy.dbzer0.com (though they are too defensive of genAI for my taste) and the European Federalist feddit.org.

This thread has more recommendations by a more experienced user

They’ve got a lot of genuine tankies on there, and not just the „West is bad“ kind, but also a lot of „The Russian invasion of the Ukraine is justified and the Tiananmen massacre didn’t happen“