Does it even make a difference? Would much appreciate some suggestions.

  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
    31·
    6 months ago

    Does it really matter where you go? It’s all federated together anyway, that’s the whole point, isn’t it?

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      17·
      6 months ago

      1. It’s not all federated together, Lemm.ee is more broadly federated than Lemmy.world, as an example. Lemm.ee can see Hexbear and Lemmygrad, you cannot, as a quick example. Federation and defederation policy dramatically impacts the experience.

      2. Many instances are specialized, like Lemmygrad with Marxism-Leninism, slrpnk.net with Solarpunk, mander.xyz with science, Hexbear as a left-unity instance, etc. Browsing locally is a fun experience for those into the instance subject.

      3. Some instances have only upvotes and no downvotes, some don’t show vote totals period, or have other front-facing features. Some offer emojis, like Hexbear.net.

      And more! All good reasons to put some thought in.

      • Mr_Stellar@lemm.eeOP
        1·
        6 months ago

        Which would you say is the most neutral/ open to anything? Or I guess most federated?

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
          31·
          6 months ago

          Lemmy.zip is a common broadly federated instance I think, but really, I’d suggest looking into instances aligned most with the type of content you like to see.

      • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 months ago

        Wow, thank you! I didn’t know it was like that. I also didn’t know that what I was reading as nonsense slarpnik is “solaspunk” and I still have no idea what that is but I’ll google it. Never heard of Mander either, want to check out whether that’s useful to me. Thanks!

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
          31·
          6 months ago

          No problem! Solarpunk is an aesthetic-based social movement surrounding solar energy and climate activism, in a short descriptor. You can see the instance to see what I mean.

          Here’s a tool to find instances. I recommend sorting by most active, and checking whichever looks interesting to you.

    • Zenith@lemm.ee
      1·
      6 months ago

      Where would I find a way to know if an instance aligned with what I wanted or not? I’m supposed to personally find and explore a bunch of different ones?

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        31·
        6 months ago

        There’s the “Join Lemmy” tool that shows a list of instances, you can click on them and see if they fit what you want.

      • Sidyctism II.@discuss.tchncs.de
        41·
        6 months ago

        Ive recently stumbled on Fediseer, where instances can give recommendations, censures and hesitations to other instances. every instance also has its own page with their self-description, stats, recommendations, censures, etc. might be a helpful tool to narrow down the potential instances.

        • Otherbarry@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          That’s a good tip, it’s a good idea to subscribe to a Lemmy instance that participates in Fediseer (IMO). It helps to keep spammy instances off your own instance hence lower spam posts overall.

          A lot of spammers tend to spin up their own Lemmy instances just to spam the rest of the Fediverse, or they’ll create a ton of new accounts on an instance with lax admin/moderation to use for spam later.

          You don’t even need to browse the Fediseer website directly, pretty much all Lemmy instances participating in Fediseer will have the “Guarantor” and “Endorsements” links in the sidebar of their homepage.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    I switched to pie fed mainly because of the options including one to not blur nsfw as a lot of folks bar for nsfw is like way lower than mine.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
        21·
        6 months ago

        Most Lemmy apps support switching quickly between instances.

        In theory, this could ease the transition when an instance closes, I guess.

        In reality, the Internet is for pornography.

        It presumably makes it easier to quickly switch between porn-free and porn-full subscription sets.

        I say “Presumably”, because I’m above all that… here on my non-porn account.

        Plus…there’s probably someone here who carefully separates their Linux Lemmys into one account and their railway and mass transit news Lemmys into another.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          6 months ago

          The default web frontend has no such provision. If SDF is down I have to go and navigate to my backup instance like a peasant.

          Maybe I should switch to an app. The only trick is that I’ll have to hack it a little bit to make sure it always launches over Tor. Unless I get on Qubes soon.

            • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
              2·
              6 months ago

              I know. I was slightly butthurt at the suggestion I’m Lemmying wrong, though. Without third party software, movement between instances isn’t seamless right now, just possible.

              • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
                2·
                6 months ago

                Oh, lol definitely didn’t mean to imply that haha, was just saying all the apps I’ve tried (I literally only use mobile to access Lemmy) have the ability to add and swap between accounts on different instances :)

  • roadrunner_ex@lemmy.caEnglish
    66·
    6 months ago

    One thing you should do is grab your data for easy moving, you haven’t already.

    Assuming you’re using the default Lemmy web UI (not Voyager, or Photon, or a mobile app, or whatever), click on your username in the top right, and select “Settings”.

    On the settings page, there’s a section called “Import/Export Settings”. Click the “Export” button and let your browser download the file.

    Then, when you switch instances, you can go into the same Settings page on the new instance, select the file you downloaded, and hit “Import” and you will automatically be resubscribed to the communities you subscribed to.

  • dil@lemmy.zip
    81·
    6 months ago

    Sh.itjust.works and lemmy.zip, not sure if shitjustworks is general purpose actually

    • dil@lemmy.zip
      3·
      6 months ago

      But yeah I signed up for multiple before so id have aged accounts in case my main one went away

    • LethargicPuppy14@lemmy.zip
      258·
      6 months ago

      Even if you truly believe that, just saying that without talking about those instances’ reputation seems… unhelpful, at best. You’re telling someone to join hexbear without telling them how many instances have defederated from it.

      • IttihadChe@lemmy.mlEnglish
        84·
        6 months ago

        People are recommending all sorts of instances without telling them how many instances have de-federated from them and if they’re federated with hexbear etc.

        You only focus that criticism on this suggestion because you are obviously one of the people who don’t like hexbear and want to frame your critique of the suggestion as more reasonable/less biased.

        What exactly is the “reputation” hexbear has anyway? Being based?

        • LethargicPuppy14@lemmy.zip
          79·
          6 months ago

          Those three instances are a lot more controversial than most, and I’m not gonna argue with you if you’re gonna pretend to not know that.

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
            10·
            6 months ago

            “Controversial” in that Marxists tend to support them, and those opposed to Marxism don’t. It’s as simple as that, really.

          • IttihadChe@lemmy.mlEnglish
            81·
            6 months ago

            Controversial amongst whom and for what reasons?

            Without providing that context your critique is “…unhelpful at best”

            Edit: to be clear, Hexbear is a large and active instance, so if you value their content (as I do) other instances being de-federated can be just as much, if not more, a mark against those instances. Hence why it matters who deems them controversial and why.

            I don’t personally know who they are federated with, but as someone who’s only used Lemmy.ML, I can interact with their instance and I can interact with many (if not most, idk) other instances (.World, .Zip, Lemmygrad, DBzer0, etc). So if they are de-federated with those instances and you want to see both Hexbear and them, maybe come to Lemmy.ml.

            Side note: is there a way to track de-federations aside from just searching for communities hosted there from within your instance?

      • teagrrl@lemmy.ml
        62·
        6 months ago

        I disagree, the users on all three have been nothing but supportive and wonderful to me.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      I’m thinking between Zip and db0… I can’t decide 😁

      I was too comfortable with lemme.ee (AKA less drama overall than your favorite Lemmy instance) but now I need to deal with this…

      Well, I knew from the beginning, that the fediverse works this way, if any we should be grateful we were given a good window to migrate (former fmhy user here lol), and honestly it makes sense, each instance can’t last forever… Not even big sites like Reddit will.

    • PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      37·
      6 months ago

      I also can vouch for sh.itjust.works. They have a fair defederation policy and has only gone down a couple times in the two years I’ve been using it. When it has the admin has been quick to address it and provides updates via a matrix chat.

      The one downside is that some more niche domains have degenerated defederated (thanks autocorrect) from us due to the open enrolment we have (beehaw comes directly to mind). I recall someone linking a website that tracked what servers are federated with each other but I can’t find it now unfortunately.