When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, then have a look at the Lemmy.world status

Blaze@sopuli.xyz to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 821 points –

Seems like they are under attack again, will those people never stop? I feel sorry for the admin team.

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Commenting on your comment not because I expect you to have them or anything, it's just the top comment so hopefully someone sees this. I know there's a handful of links out there to browse instances. Are there any that can see who's defederated with who/ which instances are federated with the most instances? I had another account on a .ml domain instance but they got purged with a bunch of others a couple of weeks ago. I use my lemmy.world account because it has the most-ish reach for finding new communities and whatnot

Currently no, there isn't a way to see that granular of detail. On my instance I have details about any defederated (blocked) instances. Currently there are none.

But there are pros and cons of joining smaller server. Since mine is small we don't see a large list of communities, I make a point to go through and subscribe to a bunch everyday so my users can get the best experience. But without others doing some of the leg work it can be challenging. Bigger instances like lemmy.world have "seeded" with communities all over because of their large user base. Not only does lemmy.world have a ton of communities but their users have subscribed to communities outside the instance making it discoverable to others.

https://lemmyverse.net/ https://browse.feddit.de/

Unless you want to see porn or troll instances, I don't think there's a big difference between instances except for the fact that beehaw isn't federated with lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works