Edit: thanks everyone for the suggestions!
Do keep them coming as it might be helpful for others who come across this, since it seems quite a few users are (understandably) bleeding from lemmy.world these days, like myself
I was looking for a solid instance to move to, but I’m getting burned out from trying to find the perfect instance that:
- is based in a country with reasonable privacy reputation (if it still fits the bill, outside Europe too is fine)
- allows creating communities without admin approval (I’m willing to try getting into one of those too if needed, hopefully it would be accepting of creating niche communities though)
- doesn’t defederate indiscriminately
The tool I used is lemmyverse.net but it seems the filtering isn’t working great, or I just don’t understand it, e.g. I filter by Italian language and the only Italian instance I know (feddit.it) doesn’t show up, while a slew of irrelevant ones is listed (Lemmy Português is there??)
Sorry if I sound so needy, maybe I’m just overthinking it, since posts are public and indexable by anyone. Do say so, if I should chill out and just pick one of the usual ones like lemm.ee etc.
P.S. I would love to self-host, but I’m currently not able to either, I don’t have enough technical expertise.
lemmy.blahaj.zone
I don’t understand why you were downvoted, though maybe adding more info about it would be useful (server location, etc.)
You’re not, we also have English communities like https://feddit.it/c/askitaly And you’re free to make post in English in italian communities using the English tag
The only thing they have at registration is that you need to write a sentence in “some regional italian slang” And that’s basically serve the purpose to restrict a little bit sign in not to finish like lemmy.world targeting italian speakers
But it’s actually pretty easy
AFAIK lemm.ee fits all your requirements, what don’t you like about it?
Edit: Maybe I’m wrong. It’s run by Estonians, but looking up its IP, it point to the US, so maybe it’s not hosted in the EU.
Our frontend is globally distributed (so if you’re in the US, you get it from a US server), but the backend server and user data are hosted in the EU.
Thanks for clarifying, I’m also considering migrating from lemmy.world and I’m considering lemm.ee, would you recommend that for someone located in north africa (Morocco)? Will i get latency problems? My last concern is should I worry about it degenerating (i still dont get exactly how instances work)?
I think latency should be pretty decent thanks to our global CDN, but I think in the end you should just try it out and compare it to some other instances to get the best picture.
My instance, https://lemmings.world, fits all of that! Servers in Germany, you can create communities and all defederations are evaluated based on how it affects the instance’s users.
