what is your favorite lemmy instance?
ngl I may prefer lemm.ee, just saying
ngl I may prefer lemm.ee, just saying
db0 , i really like your server tbh but my monyet.cc is serving me currently well the fact that you have a photon , tensorrect etc as alternate frontends is kinda cool as well :p thanks man , we as a community appreciate your instance and its c/piracy -fellow pirate
Hehe yep
Edit: and i just realised i posted this from my other account and not my dbzer0 account lol. But point still stands
sopuli.xyz was my first instance because it was the biggest one that didn't require registration approval, but after Lemmy became popular I switched to lemmy.world because sopuli was defederated from lemmygrad.ml
Lemmy.world for me.
It's generic, has a good list of communities, and the mods are legends with updates and transparency.
I personally prefer using Lemm.ee, mostly because it's the instance I started off with, but the problem with that instance is that it's dry lol
lemmy.sdf.org when it works; federation there is kinda fucked right now, so I'm on lemmy.today for now. I accidentally posted it from SDF. Comment if you can see this.
SDF has an extensive track record (* much longer than I have been alive*) of providing systems for the public good. If federation gets fixed (and it probably will eventually), I'll be back on SDF.
Additionally, I generally don't want the set of people I can connect with to be technically limited, like at all. Yes that includes "all the bad people" according to your (and my) individual worldview. If they're going to exist, I would prefer to have advanced notice of the danger they pose. If you suck, I will block you.
I'm not against moderated or curated instances, and for most people that is probably the way to go, but it's not what I personally need. Yes, this means that I occasionally get wild shit when I choose to scroll through All. Yes, that means I get various shades of genocide apologists and weird bigots, again when I choose not to browse by Local or Subscribed. That's why I'm subscribed to a bunch of cool, moderated communities. I choose the content I see.
That is the approach I prefer for myself. Again, I understand that it's not for everyone.
As far as instances where I'm not (yet) a member, lemmy.dbzer0.com is my favorite by far. Also while I don't have any communities on their instance, the startrek.website people seem to always have something interesting to say.
Personally I am pretty bias towards lemm.ee, mostly because it's the instance I joined when starting out. I mostly do all because i personally don't prefer using local communities. Don't really care about federation, just like using lemmy either way
Lemm.ee. I like the defederation policy, and in my experience the community and its admins have always been very responsive.
Lemm.ee seems pretty okay.
I don't care much about instances though, I just use Lemmy like it's Reddit and scroll through the home page and my subscriptions
mander.xyz is my favorite. Love and subscribed to the most of the communities it have.
My main is reddthat.com
Clear and open admins; smaller instance with room to grow; it's my personal favorite
I would be there but I was only put off by the fact that they've got an inactive admin which is usually a security flaw.
He still holds admin powers, which people might easily dismiss but I've had experience in past times with rogue former admins causing serious problems - you never leave inactive users with admin powers no matter how trustworthy they seem.
He came back just to make other people admins and then disappeared again, which also raises questions over the ownership of the instance. It's best security practice to have users with minimal necessary powers so if someone's not admining they shouldn't have admin powers since that increases the attack surface. Also the way the contingency plans were aborted the second he lifted a finger with no explanation or apology sort of rubbed me up the wrong way.
I'm having a bit of a moan, I wouldn't want anyone to make a decision like that purely on my account, you should make your own decision. Maybe feddit.uk will turn out fine, I hope it does, I'm just explaining why I don't use it. lemmy.zip seems to be a responsibly run instance with similar federation policies to feddit.uk
Every instance is good because every instance can interact with many other instances with comments, posts etc. So you arent really locked into one instance. its the magic of federation.
I'd be very careful with those words given that lemmy.world is rather trigger happy with defederations.
It is almost impossible to completely censor away content and anyone can bridge blocks by creating a new intermediary instance where they can view content of mutually blocked instances but it's not like you see all the fediverse content on any instance.
Matter of fact you just need to look at the blocklists of most instances to get a pretty good guess at the other, less legal, Fediverse out there running almost in parallel to the popular one. But since almost every instance has those blocked you don't see any of that shit in your feeds. Highly censorship resistant, but ultimately an individual is still at the mercy of their instance admins.
Is it possible to switch instances? I wanna explore and I just randomly picked one when I started
You’ve just got to make a new account on a different instance. Several of the apps make it easy to switch between multiple accounts on different instances.
There is an external tool to export, import your subscribed communities. I don't think there's any current way your posts and comments can move with you, though.