I feel like having a preference kind of defeats the point?
I thought they were supposed to be interchangeable?
It's the communities yours supposed to care about.
That's always been the burning question for me. Why choose one over the other? What kind of attributes should I look at to do informed comparisons? Like server uptime, number of users, which instances they've federated with (or not federated with)...
And how and where can I see all this in one place? If it's truly interchangeable, which it really isn't, then why not have a single unified web front (which makes it more like a distributed service) to reduce confusion for most normal users?
I think the unified webfront is a bit tough, I believe right now the instance will pull from other instances if someone on the instance your in is following something from their instance
But you can really be on any instance and follow stuff from everywhere else, the search needs a bit of work in cataloging everything so a tool like https://browse.feddit.de/ is really useful in finding communities
I would also like to shout out https://lemmyverse.net, it's basically indexed every instance and every community (even minuscule instances like mine are counted), and I think it has a really good search and sorting function. Also, it does include KBin magazines, but you have to enable it in the settings menu in the upper right part of the screen.
That is awesome! Thanks!
No problem, I use it all the time, it's honestly vital for small instances like mine.
awesome thank you, just used it to find the elder scrolls oblivion community, hope to start seeing some of my favorite memes again
No problem at all, I'm glad that you were able to find a community you like!
Lemmy.world is noticeably slower and prone to have issues compared to the smaller instances for me.
the instance I'm on seems to be performant enough :)
I don’t really understand this either. I only have 1 account on Lemmy.world. I can see why some people have a backup. For me, it doesn’t seem necessary unless I’m missing something. If the server goes down temporarily, I’m fine with just waiting for it to come back. If it goes down permanently, then I’ll go ahead and create an account on another server.
The instance preference can be important if you look at the Local Communities timeline. Niche instances will usually have more communities relevant to that niche. However, with current user distribution most users are either on Lemmy.world or Lemmy.ml.
A Federated space where this more apparent is on Mastodon. I joined SFBA,social because it is local to me (San Francisco Bay Area, California, US). The Local Timeline is all users on the instance. As a good proportion of them are from the area I can learn about local events/projects/news.
I think that's somewhat of an oversimplification. The point of the instances isn't to be interchangeable, it's to provide decentralization and lots of choice to Lemmy users. Lemmy itself is more or less just a protocol a bunch of different link aggregator sites are running on, each of which has its own administration style and community policy. There are lots of general-purpose Lemmy instances, lots of more niche ones, and a bunch of small/personal ones that don't have a strong identity yet, and all of them together form the Lemmy ecosystem.
Agreed. It's been the most stable one I've been on so far
https://lemmy.ml
They defederated from Threads, as everyone should do. I was there to see how Google fucked up XMPP via EEE when they joined that federation. Meta is doing the same.
I moved to lemmy.ml from lemmy.world when lemmy.world didn't act on this. There's no room for corporations in the fediverse.
Fuck Lemmygrad, loud authoritarians. There's no room for dictators on the fediverse.
That's lemmygrad.ml, not lemmy.ml. Don't confuse things.
Also, I would take an alive fediverse and some communities I can ignore and not subscribe to than a dead fediverse in the hands of the corporations. See what Google did to XMPP. See reddit. See twitter. See threads..
Definitely sh.itjust.works. The largest instance that defederates with the fewest other instances (though they could still do better here - there's no reason to defederate either exploding-heads or lemmygrad), no email required on sign up, and a super chill vibe.
Users voted to defed from exploding heads in the agora community.
The admins have a moral compass that aligns with my own, and I'm pretty sure they have an actual compass as well. So far they have been open about all issues and addressed them quickly, often before their instance was affected.
They took community input before preemptively defederating from threads and all of the booty and plunder is shared equally among the crew. The artwork is sick and often features Lemmy from Motorhead in various shades of cyberpunk or steampunk pirate getup and it really feels like home.
As a matter of fact I might donate some money to the cause, these guys rock.
For completely biased reasons, lemmy.thesanewriter.com. It was really satisfying to set up, and I'm having a good time running it. If I had to pick an instance for less biased reasons, lemm.ee, I really think they're doing a great job maintaining transparency and overall running a good instance.
Https://Yiffit.net. After so many years of feeling like the furry spaces on Reddit were a little too childish or at least child friendly, it's great to find the same kind of adult vibe that I remember from when I was more active in the furry community as a teen/young adult.
The best would be the one you yourself host, or someone close to you
iusearchlinux.fyi just for the domain name 😎
(and it's a neat, friendly instance too)
I like mine
lemmy.ml looks cool, I couldn't create an account with them recently but I had a two year old account with a federated site that should work iirc.
lemmynsfw.com
They literally just post celebrities there like all day. It's so creepy
Create an account to block them.
I know there is much worst, but I find it so freaking creepy, it's a part of internet I never really saw before
I feel like having a preference kind of defeats the point?
I thought they were supposed to be interchangeable?
It's the communities yours supposed to care about.
That's always been the burning question for me. Why choose one over the other? What kind of attributes should I look at to do informed comparisons? Like server uptime, number of users, which instances they've federated with (or not federated with)...
And how and where can I see all this in one place? If it's truly interchangeable, which it really isn't, then why not have a single unified web front (which makes it more like a distributed service) to reduce confusion for most normal users?
I think the unified webfront is a bit tough, I believe right now the instance will pull from other instances if someone on the instance your in is following something from their instance
But you can really be on any instance and follow stuff from everywhere else, the search needs a bit of work in cataloging everything so a tool like https://browse.feddit.de/ is really useful in finding communities
I would also like to shout out https://lemmyverse.net, it's basically indexed every instance and every community (even minuscule instances like mine are counted), and I think it has a really good search and sorting function. Also, it does include KBin magazines, but you have to enable it in the settings menu in the upper right part of the screen.
That is awesome! Thanks!
No problem, I use it all the time, it's honestly vital for small instances like mine.
awesome thank you, just used it to find the elder scrolls oblivion community, hope to start seeing some of my favorite memes again
No problem at all, I'm glad that you were able to find a community you like!
Lemmy.world is noticeably slower and prone to have issues compared to the smaller instances for me.
the instance I'm on seems to be performant enough :)
I don’t really understand this either. I only have 1 account on Lemmy.world. I can see why some people have a backup. For me, it doesn’t seem necessary unless I’m missing something. If the server goes down temporarily, I’m fine with just waiting for it to come back. If it goes down permanently, then I’ll go ahead and create an account on another server.
The instance preference can be important if you look at the Local Communities timeline. Niche instances will usually have more communities relevant to that niche. However, with current user distribution most users are either on Lemmy.world or Lemmy.ml.
A Federated space where this more apparent is on Mastodon. I joined SFBA,social because it is local to me (San Francisco Bay Area, California, US). The Local Timeline is all users on the instance. As a good proportion of them are from the area I can learn about local events/projects/news.
I think that's somewhat of an oversimplification. The point of the instances isn't to be interchangeable, it's to provide decentralization and lots of choice to Lemmy users. Lemmy itself is more or less just a protocol a bunch of different link aggregator sites are running on, each of which has its own administration style and community policy. There are lots of general-purpose Lemmy instances, lots of more niche ones, and a bunch of small/personal ones that don't have a strong identity yet, and all of them together form the Lemmy ecosystem.
Lemm.ee, quick, responsive and just works.
Agreed. It's been the most stable one I've been on so far
https://lemmy.ml They defederated from Threads, as everyone should do. I was there to see how Google fucked up XMPP via EEE when they joined that federation. Meta is doing the same.
I moved to lemmy.ml from lemmy.world when lemmy.world didn't act on this. There's no room for corporations in the fediverse.
Fuck Lemmygrad, loud authoritarians. There's no room for dictators on the fediverse.
That's lemmygrad.ml, not lemmy.ml. Don't confuse things.
Also, I would take an alive fediverse and some communities I can ignore and not subscribe to than a dead fediverse in the hands of the corporations. See what Google did to XMPP. See reddit. See twitter. See threads..
Edit: this is an incredibly good read https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
I think they were referring to this
Thanks for sharing this, I wasn’t aware of this yet
Does anyone know how to block instances from showing up in your feed? The lemmygrad stuff is one of the instances I’d love to not see.
You can't block instances, only admins can do that
lemm.ee.
Cool servers: mander.xyz, thegarden.land, lemmy.radio.
lemmy.ca should be mentioned. It's like midwest.social, super chill...
midwest.social
midwest.social gang here as well. I don’t think there is really a best instance though. Midwest.social works for me, because I’m…. Midwest.
slrpnk.net If you're into climate activism and self sufficiency
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone For us queer folk
Blahaj is life
startrek.website
Definitely sh.itjust.works. The largest instance that defederates with the fewest other instances (though they could still do better here - there's no reason to defederate either exploding-heads or lemmygrad), no email required on sign up, and a super chill vibe.
Users voted to defed from exploding heads in the agora community.
Link to sh.itjust.works
lemmy.dbzer0.com
The admins have a moral compass that aligns with my own, and I'm pretty sure they have an actual compass as well. So far they have been open about all issues and addressed them quickly, often before their instance was affected.
They took community input before preemptively defederating from threads and all of the booty and plunder is shared equally among the crew. The artwork is sick and often features Lemmy from Motorhead in various shades of cyberpunk or steampunk pirate getup and it really feels like home.
As a matter of fact I might donate some money to the cause, these guys rock.
For completely biased reasons, lemmy.thesanewriter.com. It was really satisfying to set up, and I'm having a good time running it. If I had to pick an instance for less biased reasons, lemm.ee, I really think they're doing a great job maintaining transparency and overall running a good instance.
http://mander.xyz if you like science.
Https://Yiffit.net. After so many years of feeling like the furry spaces on Reddit were a little too childish or at least child friendly, it's great to find the same kind of adult vibe that I remember from when I was more active in the furry community as a teen/young adult.
The best would be the one you yourself host, or someone close to you
iusearchlinux.fyi just for the domain name 😎
(and it's a neat, friendly instance too)
I like mine
lemmy.ml looks cool, I couldn't create an account with them recently but I had a two year old account with a federated site that should work iirc.