Hello everyone,
Based on the recent instability of Lemmy.world, a lot of people have been wondering whether they should move to another instance.
I used to look at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list and recommend people to pick a generalist instance with as much users as possible (using the 1m column), usually
- lemm.ee
- sh.itjust.works
- sopuli.xyz
- lemmy.one
- reddthat.com
- etc.
Of course, there are also the regional options
And of course, the thematic instances
- programming.dev
- lemmy.blahaj.zone
- discuss.tchncs.de
- lemmy.dbzer0.com
- etc.
I used to recommend the most populated instances, as we know that All depends on users subscribed from the instance.
However, now with the introduction of the Lemmy Community Seeder (https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs), which
tells your instance to pull the top communities and the communities with the top posts from your favorite instances
do you think this should still apply? I have seen promising instances (high uptime, already on 18.4 that was released today)
- discuss.online
- lemmy.ninja
- unilem.org
- etc.
Would you recommend users to join those as well, assuming that the admins use the LCS to populate the All feed? Most of us remember the Vlemmy.net disappearance, and it’s difficult to tell users to join small instances based on good faith, but at the same time, every instance needs to start somewhere, and they should be given a chance.
What do you think?
Did not know about that seeder. Super useful tool! Thanks for sharing.
definitely worth taking a look at different instances stance on defederation. after the whole ordeal with lemmy.world defederating with hexbear prematurely its worth taking the time to find an instance that aligns with your ideals and won’t remove communities you may find valuable. I personally dont align with hexbear’s politics but I think that its important to have an open federation policy.
I initially went with Kbin and Beehaw since it was clear that kbin and lemmy were going to mostly diverge on key features from the start. At the time, Beehaw was getting a ton of traffic thanks to the join-lemmy homepage placing them at the top of the suggested instances list, so there was no real criteria that went into my choice other than that.
Eventually deleted my Beehaw account though, after the admins made it clear they were not prepared for the influx and were being rather dramatic about their defederation choices as a result. It left a bad taste in my mouth, and while I understand their stance was “safe place first, popular site second” it just didn’t vibe with what I expected from an open reddit alternative.
Moved to VLemmy after that, and we all know how that went, but my rationale was that it was a growing but moderately small instance.
Afterwards I made 2 new accounts: one on infosec.pub and the other on lemdro.id.
At this point I’m mostly sticking with the Lemdro.id account, since they seem to be offering some very friendly support via their matrix space, and they have some apparently unique changes to backend to make it a very fast and easy to scale instance.
My kbin.social and infosec.pub accounts are mostly just alts gathering dust as a result.
Interesting, thanks for your feedback.
they have some apparently unique changes to backend to make it a very fast and easy to scale instance.
Shouldn’t that be merged into the Lemmy platform at some? It would probably benefit everyone
I don’t know enough about the specifics to say whether or not it’s something that would be useful upstream. It’s possible that it’s just their unique combination of software & hardware that makes it work the way it does.
I’m sure someone in their Matrix server could offer more insight.
My Mastodon account is on mastodon.sdf.org When the whole Reddit-o-pocalypse went down SDF spun up a Lemmy instance a few days later I asked to join They now have a handful of Lemmy instances regionally
Anywhere not banning lemmygrad is probably an OK place.
Everyone else, if not purely technical instances, are mostly replicating politics in a way that hurts humanity as a whole.
I don’t want to be on an instance that defederates instances based on any ideology. Originally I signed up for beehaw.org but saw they were defederating with instances who “didn’t share their inclusive views” That’s fine as it is their instance I guess, but I deleted my account. If your ideology of choice needs censorship to back it up, maybe it’s not that great. I want my all to be EVERYTHING porn nazis communists I don’t give a shit. ALL MEANS ALL
Porn Nazi Communism: Faschist government holds all the means of production and runs them, with who’re supremacy.
It’s not about their ideology, it’s because they’re annoying.
I’m still pretty sure they’re all trolls, but even if they 100% honest, they’re still annoying.
I want my all to be EVERYTHING porn nazis communists I don’t give a shit. ALL MEANS ALL
Not many adults would agree with that…
