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

Of course, there are also the regional options

And of course, the thematic instances

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)

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?

  • nephs@lemmygrad.ml
    64·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • tron@lemm.ee
      85·
      11 months ago

      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

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        11 months ago

        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…

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            They don’t pick for you…

            You pick your instance.

            The issue with some instances is you can try to block their communities, but they make 100s of communities that post the same shit.

            So it makes sense a large amount of people want an instance where they dont have to do that, and they don’t have to worry about running into those idiots in other places.

            No one is making you join a specific instance. Or stopping you from even making your own

      • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
        2·
        11 months ago

        Porn Nazi Communism: Faschist government holds all the means of production and runs them, with who’re supremacy.