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Looking to make a change i think.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I recommend just signing up for another instance or five.

IMO, there's really no reason to "move" on Lemmy. If you see an instance that looks interesting, sign up for it. Spend some time there and poke around and see how it's different (they're all at least subtly different, since they all have different sets of federated instances and subscribed communities). If you see another one that interests you, sign up for it too. Keep going like that and eventually you'll find yourself settling into one or maybe a few not because you took a guess or followed someone else's recommendation, but because they simply turned out to be the ones you liked best.

I have no idea how many instances I've signed up for over the last couple of years - a couple of dozen at least. Of those, I generally have three or four that I use the most, though the specific ones have changed, as some of my earlier favorites have gone notably downhill or have shut down and new favorites have arisen.

All that said, overall I've been most satisfied with this account - Sopuli.xyz. I also spend a fair amount of time on dbzer0, lemm.ee and Fedia.io (which is notable because it's not Lemmy, but mbin, which is an entirely different piece of software that offers all the same basic functionality of Lemmy, but is formatted a bit differently, and in many ways is actually better than Lemmy). I have a .world account, and in fact it's my oldest account, but I find myself using it less all the time.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

Pick one of the top 50 or 100 ones at random, just avoid lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, they are larger than they should be.

I am currently using discuss.tchncs.de, you can try it out.

Lemmy's introduction website is good at this btw:

https://join-lemmy.org/instances?topic=all_topics&language=en&scroll=true

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd choose one at least somewhat near yourself. It'll improve latency, and it's your window to the world, so you'll always feel that latency when browsing.

There's probably some webpage out there that will measure load times, if you don't have tools yourself.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/ or https://mbin.fediverse.observer/ will geolocate your IP and try to show a list of geographically-nearby instances; not quite the same thing as network latency, but correlated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah discuss.tchncs.de has been serving me well so far too. I don't really know how it compares to other instances because I haven't had a previous account elsewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I've been thinking about switching over to Lemmy.today

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Quick tip for moving accounts:

Export your profile from your current account, then import into the new one. Keeps subscriptions and even saved comments/posts, but doesn't include any of your post history. Its in the settings of the web app, when you are logged in.

Just make sure the next server you use has at least Lemmy 1.9.5 (I think) which was the first version with that functionality.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with lemmy.world though? It’s the biggest general server and will probably outlast most others.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not liking what I've seen from the moderation lately.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As in their heavyhanded defederation?

Lemmy.sdf.org

Or sh.itjust.works are good with a (very) light touch on the defederation trigger

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The administration or the moderation? Either way, if that’s your issue, then you know which criteria to look for, on a new server.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Lemmy Shit Post is the best for just a laugh and with little political nonsense

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

"Enjoyed" is a big word. I haven't had a single bad experience with this instance since I joined Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Most instances to be honest. Just make note of the blocked instances and see if they don't block anything you wish to see.

Unless you want local to be diverse, that is.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

yeah, lemmy.world is a good starter server. To find your next one:

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

Also, consider going past the first page on FediDB and picking a smaller instance. I'm not knocking the big instances (I volunteer my time to two of the biggest, after all). It's just that the whole point of this Fediverse experiment is for things to be distributed. Going by the numbers on FediDB, fully half of all monthly active Lemmy users are concentrated on the three largest instances.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The main alt I use for the family TV is on SJW. Federated with basically all of the other mainstream instances but no porn.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No porn is appealing. Nothing against porn but I read Lemmy in public a lot and i hate playing whack a mole with nsfw communities.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't there an account-wide hide nsfw switch?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

I was gonna look for a social justice warrior instance lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I second this. Variety of communities, not generally a creepy or racist shithole, mostly neutral politics and moderation, shit just works

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